 Lizzie Armitstead, Sarah Barrow and Alicia Blagg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 22 October 1988 Plymouth, England [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Plymouth Diving | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | 2010 onwards Andy Banks [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sarah Barrow (born 22 October 1988) is a British retired diver who competed in several LEN European Aquatics Championships and Commonwealth Games, where she won multiple medals.
Sarah Barrow was born on 22 October 1988. [7]
She competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the 10 m synchro event with Monique Gladding. [8] The team finished in fifth. [8] She competed in the same event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, this time with Tonia Couch. [8] They finished fourth, and replicated this result at the 2011 European Championships. [8]
She won the gold medal at the 2012 European Championships at the 10 metre synchro event, with Tonia Couch. [3] They scored a then personal best of 319.56 points, beating the Ukrainian pair by 8.88 points. [3] This was the first European medal awarded to female British divers in 74 years. [3] The team of Barrow and Couch had finished in 4th at the preceding World Championships in 2011. [3]
Barrow represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in the 10 m platform synchro event with Tonia Couch, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in the 10 m platform individual event. [9] [10]
The team of Barrow and Couch were unable to defend their European title in 2013, finishing with a silver medal. [5] That year, Barrow finished fourth in the individual 10 m platform event at the World Championships. [8]
In 2014, Barrow won Commonwealth silver in the 10 m synchro event, with Tonia Couch. [6] That year, she also finished 4th in the individual 10 m at the World Championships, the best result ever for a British woman. [11] At the European Championships in that year, she won the gold medal in the individual 10 m event, the first individual European gold medal for a British woman in 87 years (1927), and first individual medal of any colour since 1958. [4]
She and Couch were split up by British coaches in the synchro event in early 2016, after Barrow had struggled with shin injuries and a non-cancerous tumour. [12] [11] This was despite the fact that Barrow and Couch had been the pair who secured GB's Olympic place in the 10 m synchro event. [13]
Barrow retired after the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she placed in fifth place with Couch in the 10m synchro. [11] For the last 6 years of her 13-year career, she trained at Plymouth Diving Club. [2] She also studied Sport Science at Leeds Metropolitan University. [14]
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