Great Britain at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

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Great Britain at the
2015 World Aquatics Championships
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FINA code GBR
National federation British Swimming
Website www.swimming.org/britishswimming
in Kazan, Russia
Competitors50 in 5 sports
Medals
Ranked 5th
Gold
7
Silver
1
Bronze
6
Total
14
World Aquatics Championships appearances

Great Britain competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia between 24 July to 9 August 2015.

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Tom Daley and Rebecca Gallantree became the first ever winners of the Mixed team event. In doing so, Daley became the first British diver to win multiple medals across World Championships, and the first British double world champion. [1] Gallantree became the first female British diver to win a World Championship medal of any colour, and the first female British World Champion. [2] With bronze in the Men's 10 m platform, Daley would go on to become the first British diver to win three World Championship medals.

Jack Laugher, with his bronze medal in both the Men's 3 m springboard event, and Men's 3 m synchronized springboard with Chris Mears, became the first British diver to win two World championship medals at one edition, later equalled by Daley. [3] With a gold and three bronze medals, the 2015 edition was by some margin the most successful World Championships [2] in diving for Great Britain since the championships began.

With Great Britain's first gold medal in Men's high diving, Gary Hunt brought the Great Britain overall tally to ten medals, the highest ever for the nation at a FINA World Aquatics Championships. Simultaneously, with his silver medal from 2013, Hunt became the most successful male high diver since the event was brought into the World Aquatics Championships.

Adam Peaty became the first British swimmer to ever win three gold medals at a global championships, Worlds or Olympic, with victories in the 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events and the 4 x 100 metre mixed medley relay. James Guy won the first ever gold medal in male freestyle for Great Britain at a World Championships in the 200 metres freestyle, and then anchored the Great Britain Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team to its first ever victory in the event.

The bronze medal won by Jaz Carlin in the Women's 800 m freestyle brought the tally of swimming medals to five golds, a silver and three bronzes, at nine medals, the best return for Great Britain in the swimming portion of a World Aquatics Championships, having already achieved the best results in their history in diving and high diving. The full tally of seven golds, one silver and six bronze was also an historic high for the championships as a whole.

Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Tom Daley
Rebecca Gallantree
Diving Mixed team July 29
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Adam Peaty Swimming Men's 100 m breaststroke August 3
Gold medal icon.svg Gold James Guy Swimming Men's 200 m freestyle August 4
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Gary Hunt High diving Men's high diving August 5
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Adam Peaty Swimming Men's 50 m breaststroke August 5
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Fran Halsall
Rachael Kelly *
Ross Murdoch *
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Adam Peaty
Chris Walker-Hebborn
Swimming Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay August 5
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nicholas Grainger *
James Guy
Calum Jarvis
Robbie Renwick
Duncan Scott *
Daniel Wallace
Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay August 7
Silver medal icon.svg Silver James Guy Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle August 2
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Jack Laugher
Chris Mears
Diving Men's 3 m synchronized springboard July 28
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Jack Laugher Diving Men's 3 m springboard July 31
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Tom Daley Diving Men's 10 m platform August 2
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Ross Murdoch Swimming Men's 100 m breaststroke August 3
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Siobhan-Marie O'Connor Swimming Women's 200 m individual medley August 3
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Jazmin Carlin Swimming Women's 800 m freestyle August 8

Diving

British divers qualified for the individual spots and the synchronized teams at the World Championships. Nine divers have been nominated to the roster for Team GB at the Worlds, including 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Tom Daley. [4]

Diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was a qualification event for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and Great Britain, with a top three finish in the 3 m synchronized springboard for Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, achieved a quota place for a team at the Rio games. In the individual events, Tom Daley (10m platform) and Jack Laugher (3m springboard) both won bronze medals, and they, along with finalists Rebecca Gallantree (3 metre springboard) and Tonia Couch (10 metre platform), won a single quota place for Great Britain in each of the four individual diving events in Rio.

Men
AthleteEventPreliminariesSemifinalsFinal
PointsRankPointsRankPointsRank
James Denny 1 m springboard 309.6026did not advance
Jack Laugher 3 m springboard 450.807 Q490.905 Q528.90Bronze medal icon.svg
Chris Mears 419.2018 Q422.5015did not advance
Tom Daley 10 m platform 466.559 Q524.703 Q537.95Bronze medal icon.svg
Matthew Lee 437.3514 Q357.6018did not advance
Jack Laugher
Chris Mears
3 m synchronized springboard 417.334 Q445.20Bronze medal icon.svg
James Denny
Matthew Lee
10 m synchronized platform 379.8612 Q396.849
Women
AthleteEventPreliminariesSemifinalsFinal
PointsRankPointsRankPointsRank
Alicia Blagg 3 m springboard 262.5526did not advance
Rebecca Gallantree 294.1513 Q305.108 Q289.0010
Sarah Barrow 10 m platform 308.9017 Q283.1018did not advance
Tonia Couch 328.709 Q339.707 Q340.308
Alicia Blagg
Rebecca Gallantree
3 m synchronized springboard 287.404 Q286.8610
Sarah Barrow
Tonia Couch
10 m synchronized platform 302.524 Q308.406
Mixed
AthleteEventFinal
PointsRank
Tom Daley
Rebecca Gallantree
Team 434.65Gold medal icon.svg

High diving

Great Britain has qualified two high divers at the World Championships. [5]

AthleteEventPointsRank
Blake Aldridge Men's high diving did not finish
Gary Hunt 629.30Gold medal icon.svg

Open water swimming

Great Britain fielded a full team of seven swimmers to compete in the open water marathon. [6]

Men
AthleteEventTimeRank
Tom Allen 5 km 55:32.023
Jack Burnell 10 km 1:50:05.85
Daniel Fogg 1:50:39.714
Caleb Hughes 5 km 55:21.97
Women
AthleteEventTimeRank
Alice Dearing 5 km 1:00:53.323
Danielle Huskisson 10 km 2:00:57.335
Keri-Anne Payne 1:58:53.615

Swimming

British swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard): [7] All British swimmers must qualify by finishing in the top two of the national championships, having gained the GB qualifying A standard set by British Swimming in the relevant final.

Great Britain consists of 30 swimmers (16 men and 14 women). Among the official roster featured European and Commonwealth Games champions Jazmin Carlin, Chris Walker-Hebborn, and Adam Peaty, who overhauled the 58-second barrier to set a new world record in the 100 m breaststroke at the national trials. [8] [9]

The championships were a qualification event for the relay races at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and Great Britain qualified for five of the six relays in Rio, the women's 4 x 100 freestyle being the exception, where they did not field a team in Kazan.

Great Britain's total of five golds and nine medals in the swimming pool are the best returns in golds and medals for Great Britain in the history of the Championships. [10]

Men
AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Adam Barrett 100 m butterfly 52.3317did not advance
Nick Grainger 400 m freestyle 3:47.9514did not advance
James Guy 200 m freestyle 1:46.102 Q1:45.43 NR 2 Q1:45.18 NR Gold medal icon.svg
400 m freestyle 3:45.372 Q3:43.75 NR Silver medal icon.svg
Calum Jarvis 100 m freestyle 49.6832did not advance
200 m freestyle 1:46.615 Q1:47.6414did not advance
Tom Laxton 100 m butterfly 52.3719did not advance
Stephen Milne 800 m freestyle 7:46.413 Q7:49.867
1500 m freestyle 14:55.174 Q14:58.625
Ross Murdoch 100 m breaststroke 59.484 Q59.758 Q59.09Bronze medal icon.svg
Roberto Pavoni 200 m individual medley 1:59.299 Q1:58:54=8did not advance
400 m individual medley 4:13.917 Q4:13.817
Adam Peaty 50 m breaststroke 26.682 Q26.42 WR 1 Q26.51Gold medal icon.svg
100 m breaststroke 58.52 CR 1 Q58.18 CR 1 Q58.52Gold medal icon.svg
200 m breaststroke 2:13.2426did not advance
Benjamin Proud 50 m freestyle 22.137 Q21.885 Q22.048
100 m freestyle 49.3523did not advance
50 m butterfly 23.5811 Q23.246 Q23.398
Liam Tancock 50 m backstroke 24.916 Q24.755 Q24.887
100 m backstroke 53.354 Q53.197 Q53.378
Chris Walker-Hebborn 100 m backstroke 53.647 Q53.396 Q53.025
Daniel Wallace 200 m individual medley 1:58.282 Q1:57.774 Q1:57.564
400 m individual medley 4:13.075 Q4:13.776
Andrew Willis 200 m breaststroke 2:09.352 Q2:08.725 Q2:08.524
Calum Jarvis
Benjamin Proud
Robbie Renwick
Duncan Scott
4 × 100 m freestyle relay 3:15.7010did not advance
Dan Wallace
Robbie Renwick
Calum Jarvis
James Guy
Nick Grainger*
Duncan Scott*
4 × 200 m freestyle relay 7:09.003 Q7:04.33 NR Gold medal icon.svg
Adam Barrett*
James Guy
Ross Murdoch*
Adam Peaty
Benjamin Proud
Chris Walker-Hebborn
4 × 100 m medley relay 3:33.376 Q3:30.67 NR 4
Women
AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Jazmin Carlin 400 m freestyle 4:07.15=6 Q4:03.744
800 m freestyle 8:23.835 Q8:18.15Bronze medal icon.svg
Francesca Halsall 50 m freestyle 24.808 Q24.507 Q24.517
50 m butterfly 25.865 Q25.713 Q25.856
Rachael Kelly 100 m butterfly 58.48=16 Q58.2712did not advance
Jemma Lowe 100 m butterfly 58.7419did not advance
Hannah Miley 200 m butterfly 2:09.4413 Q2:09.21=14did not advance
200 m individual medley 2:12.227 Q2:11.197 Q2:10.195
400 m individual medley 4:36.114 Q4:34.794
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor 200 m freestyle 1:58.2711 Q1:57.3010did not advance
200 m individual medley 2:08.922 Q2:08.452 Q2:08.77Bronze medal icon.svg
Lauren Quigley 50 m freestyle 25.5328did not advance
50 m backstroke 27.946 Q27.887 Q27.997
100 m backstroke 1:00.14=7 Q59.718 Q59.787
Molly Renshaw 200 m breaststroke 2:26.3218did not advance
Elizabeth Simmonds 100 m backstroke 1:00.3811 Q1:00.4013did not advance
200 m backstroke 2:10.4813 Q2:10.5712did not advance
Jessica Thielmann 800 m freestyle 2:36.8815did not advance
1500 m freestyle 16:21.2110did not advance
Aimee Willmott 200 m butterfly 2:10.0719did not advance
400 m individual medley 4:36.827 Q4:38.757
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Jazmin Carlin
Rebecca Turner
Hannah Miley
Eleanor Faulkner*
4 × 200 m freestyle relay 7:54.997 Q7:50.605
Rachael Kelly
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Lauren Quigley
Rebecca Turner
4 × 100 m medley relay 4:00.027 QDSQ
Mixed
AthleteEventHeatFinal
TimeRankTimeRank
Chris Walker-Hebborn
Adam Peaty
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Francesca Halsall
Ross Murdoch*
Rachael Kelly*
4 × 100 m medley relay 3:44.392 Q3:41.71 WR Gold medal icon.svg

Synchronized swimming

Great Britain has qualified two synchronized swimmers in the women's duet events.

AthleteEventPreliminariesFinal
PointsRankPointsRank
Jodie Cowie
Genevieve Randall
Duet technical routine 74.651224did not advance
Duet free routine 76.033324did not advance

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