Great Britain at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

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

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.Daley and Gallantree claim gold in Kazan. Gallantree became the first female British diver to win a World Championship medal of any colour, and the first female British World Champion.Gallantree nearly retired from sport before gold in Kazan. 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.Laugher wins second World diving bronze. With a gold and three bronze medals, the 2015 edition was by some margin the most successful World Championships 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 Medal Name Sport Event Date Diving Mixed team Swimming Men's 100 m breaststroke Swimming Men's 200 m freestyle High diving Men's high diving Swimming Men's 50 m breaststroke ** Swimming Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay ** Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle Diving Men's 3 m synchronized springboard Diving Men's 3 m springboard Diving Men's 10 m platform Swimming Men's 100 m breaststroke Swimming Women's 200 m individual medley Swimming Women's 800 m freestyle

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.

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 AthleteEventPreliminariesSemifinalsFinalPointsRankPointsRankPointsRankJames Denny1 m springboard309.6026colspan=2 did not advanceJack Laugher3 m springboard450.807 Q490.905 Q528.90Chris Mears419.2018 Q422.5015did not advanceTom Daley10 m platform466.559 Q524.703 Q537.95Matthew Lee437.3514 Q357.6018did not advanceJack LaugherChris Mears3 m synchronized springboard417.334 Qcolspan=2 445.20James DennyMatthew Lee10 m synchronized platform379.8612 Qcolspan=2 396.849

Women AthleteEventPreliminariesSemifinalsFinalPointsRankPointsRankPointsRankAlicia Blagg3 m springboard262.5526did not advanceRebecca Gallantree294.1513 Q305.108 Q289.0010Sarah Barrow10 m platform308.9017 Q283.1018did not advanceTonia Couch328.709 Q339.707 Q340.308Alicia BlaggRebecca Gallantree3 m synchronized springboard287.404 Qcolspan=2 286.86 10Sarah BarrowTonia Couch10 m synchronized platform302.524 Qcolspan=2 308.406

Mixed AthleteEventFinalPointsRankTom DaleyRebecca GallantreeTeam434.65

High diving

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

AthleteEventPointsRankBlake AldridgeMen's high divingdid not finishGary Hunt629.30

Open water swimming

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

Men AthleteEventTimeRankTom Allen5 km55:32.023Jack Burnell10 km1:50:05.85Daniel Fogg1:50:39.714Caleb Hughes5 km55:21.97

Women AthleteEventTimeRankAlice Dearing5 km1:00:53.323Danielle Huskisson10 km2:00:57.335Keri-Anne Payne1:58:53.615

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): 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.

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.Carlin bronze for ninth GB medal.

Men AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankAdam Barrett100 m butterfly52.3317did not advanceNick Grainger400 m freestyle3:47.9514colspan=2 did not advanceJames Guy200 m freestyle1:46.102 Q1:45.43 NR2 Q1:45.18 NR400 m freestyle3:45.372 Qcolspan=2 3:43.75 NRCalum Jarvis100 m freestyle49.6832did not advance200 m freestyle1:46.615 Q1:47.6414did not advanceTom Laxton100 m butterfly52.3719did not advanceStephen Milne800 m freestyle7:46.413 Qcolspan=2 7:49.8671500 m freestyle14:55.174 Qcolspan=2 14:58.625Ross Murdoch100 m breaststroke59.484 Q59.758 Q59.09Roberto Pavoni200 m individual medley1:59.299 Q1:58:54=8did not advance400 m individual medley4:13.917 Qcolspan=2 4:13.817Adam Peaty50 m breaststroke26.682 Q26.42 1 Q26.51100 m breaststroke58.52 CR1 Q58.18 CR1 Q58.52200 m breaststroke2:13.2426did not advanceBenjamin Proud50 m freestyle22.137 Q21.885 Q22.048100 m freestyle49.3523did not advance50 m butterfly23.5811 Q23.246 Q23.398Liam Tancock50 m backstroke24.916 Q24.755 Q24.887100 m backstroke53.354 Q53.197 Q53.378Chris Walker-Hebborn100 m backstroke53.647 Q53.396 Q53.025Daniel Wallace200 m individual medley1:58.282 Q1:57.774 Q1:57.564400 m individual medley4:13.075 Qcolspan=2 4:13.776Andrew Willis200 m breaststroke2:09.352 Q2:08.725 Q2:08.524Calum JarvisBenjamin ProudRobbie RenwickDuncan Scott4 × 100 m freestyle relay3:15.7010colspan=2 did not advanceDan WallaceRobbie RenwickCalum JarvisJames GuyNick Grainger*Duncan Scott*4 × 200 m freestyle relay7:09.003 Qcolspan=2 7:04.33 NRAdam Barrett*James GuyRoss Murdoch*Adam PeatyBenjamin ProudChris Walker-Hebborn4 × 100 m medley relay3:33.376 Qcolspan=2 3:30.67 NR4

Women AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankJazmin Carlin400 m freestyle4:07.15=6 Qcolspan=2 4:03.744800 m freestyle8:23.835 Qcolspan=2 8:18.15Francesca Halsall50 m freestyle24.808 Q24.507 Q24.51750 m butterfly25.865 Q25.713 Q25.856Rachael Kelly100 m butterfly58.48=16 Q58.2712did not advanceJemma Lowe100 m butterfly58.7419did not advanceHannah Miley200 m butterfly2:09.4413 Q2:09.21=14did not advance200 m individual medley2:12.227 Q2:11.197 Q2:10.195400 m individual medley4:36.114 Qcolspan=2 4:34.794Siobhan-Marie O'Connor200 m freestyle1:58.2711 Q1:57.3010did not advance200 m individual medley2:08.922 Q2:08.452 Q2:08.77Lauren Quigley50 m freestyle25.5328did not advance50 m backstroke27.946 Q27.887 Q27.997100 m backstroke1:00.14=7 Q59.718 Q59.787Molly Renshaw200 m breaststroke2:26.3218did not advanceElizabeth Simmonds100 m backstroke1:00.3811 Q1:00.4013did not advance200 m backstroke2:10.4813 Q2:10.5712did not advanceJessica Thielmann800 m freestyle2:36.8815colspan=2 did not advance1500 m freestyle16:21.2110colspan=2 did not advanceAimee Willmott200 m butterfly2:10.0719did not advance400 m individual medley4:36.827 Qcolspan=2 4:38.757Siobhan-Marie O'ConnorJazmin CarlinRebecca TurnerHannah MileyEleanor Faulkner*4 × 200 m freestyle relay7:54.997 Qcolspan=2 7:50.605Rachael KellySiobhan-Marie O'ConnorLauren QuigleyRebecca Turner4 × 100 m medley relay4:00.027 Qcolspan=2

Mixed AthleteEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankChris Walker-HebbornAdam PeatySiobhan-Marie O'ConnorFrancesca HalsallRoss Murdoch*Rachael Kelly*4 × 100 m medley relay3:44.392 Q3:41.71

Synchronized swimming

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

AthleteEventPreliminariesFinalPointsRankPointsRankJodie CowieGenevieve RandallDuet technical routine74.651224did not advanceDuet free routine76.033324did not advance

References

External links British Swimming Official Site