PERFECT PARTNERSHIP WITH DALEY WINS REID HISTORIC SILVER MEDAL
GRACE REID admitted she was in shock after she became the first Scottish diver to medal at the World Championships when she earned a silver alongside Tom Daley in the 3metre mixed synchro event in Budapest yesterday.
The Team GB duo were sitting in second behind China after four of the five rounds of dives in Hungary.
They then held their nerve with a final dive of 72.54 points to clinch the silver with the Chinese duo of Wang Han and Zheng Li winning gold.
After the event Reid, 21, said: ‘What a fantastic way to end my first World Championships.
‘It’s difficult trying to find a springboard partner that can match a girl. Tom and myself have been training really hard and we work really well together.
‘It’s hard to say why the partnership works so well, but we have similar technique across certain dives and mentally we attack training, we give it everything and I am just delighted.’
Reid, from Edinburgh, went into the mixed event full of confidence having dived very well on Friday night to finish fourth in the 3m individual event.
Earlier in the week, she had recorded a fifthplace result in the 3m synchro event with Katherine Torrance.
After two rounds of yesterday’s final, Reid and Olympic medallist Daley sat in third equal with China on 97.80 points.
In round three they posted 71.10 points and then followed that up with a good fourth dive of 66.60 to put them second behind China.
The final dive was a forward three and a half, and their 72.54 points meant a 308.04 finish ahead of Canada.