Sarah Barrow
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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] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Career
Sarah Barrow was born on 22 October 1988.[7]
Barrow 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]
Barrow 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]
Barrow 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]
Later career and retirement
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]
References
- ^ a b c "Sarah Barrow's profile page". www.sports-reference.com. Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Former European champion Sarah Barrow retires from competitive diving". ASA Diving Sport Hub. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "BBC Sport – London 2012: Tonia Couch & Sarah Barrow win Euro gold". BBC Online. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
- ^ a b "European Championships: Sarah Barrow wins diving gold". BBC Sport. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow earn European diving silver". BBC Sport. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Glasgow 2014 – Women's Synchronised 10m Platform Final". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Sarah Barrow's profile page". British Swimming. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Sarah Barrow profile | England Diving". ASA Diving Sport Hub. 31 January 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ "Sarah Barrow". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
- ^ "Results – Womens 10m Platform – Diving – Rio 2016 – Olympics". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ a b c "Sarah Barrow: Olympic diver and Commonwealth medallist retires at 27". BBC Sport. 2 October 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Tonia Couch says synchro split with Sarah Barrow 'wasn't great'". BBC Sport. 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Rio 2016: Tonia Couch & Sarah Barrow secure sixth berth for Olympics". BBC Sport. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Sarah Barrow profile". BBC Sport. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- English divers
- Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic divers for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Plymouth, Devon
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Leeds Beckett University
- Divers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in diving
- Sports scientists
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in diving
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