 Houlden at the 2019 European Diving Championships in Kyiv | |
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| Full name | Jordan Christopher Houlden |
| Born | 25 July 1998 Sheffield, England [1] |
| Sport | |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Sport | Diving |
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Jordan Christopher Houlden (born 25 July 1998) is an English diver from the City Of Sheffield Diving Club. [2] He is a silver medalist of the 2022 European Diving Championships.
Houlden won at the ASA National Age Group Championships in 2010, silver in the Group C 1m Springboard. He made progress through the junior rankings, including winning Group B 1m gold with the ASA England Programmes team at the 2013 Trofeo Niccolò Campo in Rome.
After making his European Junior debut in 2014, Houlden was one of the standout English junior divers in 2015, winning Group A 1m gold at the British Elite Junior Championships. In June 2015 he competed at the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku, finishing fourth in the 3m Springboard despite not diving five months prior due to breaking his thumbs. He became 2015 ASA England Programmes Athlete of the Year for diving. [3] In May 2016 he was part of the British team at the 2016 LEN European Aquatics Championships.
He competed for England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where he won a silver medal in the men's 3 m springboard event, a bronze medal in the men's 1 m springboard event and came 8th in the mixed 3 m springboard event. [4]
In May 2023, he won the 3m springboard title at the British Diving Championships. [5]
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