Keri-anne Payne has put herself into contention for a third Olympic Games after finishing second in a qualification tournament, while there were golds for Sarah Barrow and Jack Laugher at the British Diving Championships. Here’s our review of the last 24 hours:
Keri-anne Payne has put herself into contention for a third Olympic Games after finishing second in a qualification tournament in Portugal.
Payne and team-mate Danielle Huskisson knew they had to finish in the top nine at the 10km Marathon Swimming Olympic Games Qualification Tournament in Setubal and end up at the fastest Brit as they chase a place in Rio 2016.
And former 10km Olympic silver medallist in 2008 Payne finished as runner-up, less than a second behind winner China’s Xin Xin, as Huskisson came in ninth.
Payne told BBC Sport: "It totally was emotional and hasn't really sunk in, but I'm definitely going to cry later - tears of happiness.
"I mean I have put so much into this last four years and I'm so happy that it's all paid off in the end.
"Coming fourth at a home Olympics was the worst place to come and I took a year out after that, but I just decided at one point I needed to fully commit to it. Getting back into training was hard, but I have loved the journey - even today when I was elbowed in the face!
"Everything I've done is to get prepared to stand on the podium in Rio. I'll be doing everything that I can to make that happen."
Sarah Barrow and Jack Laugher both secured gold medals on day two of the British Diving Championships on Saturday.
Former European champion Sarah Barrow claimed the women's 10m platform with a score of 347.90, while Laugher recorded 489.25 to win the men's 3m springboard in Sheffield.
Laugher, who won two medals at the European Championships in London last month, told British Swimming: “It means a lot to regain my title after being forced to miss the National Cup in January because of injury. To do a good performance makes me happy too.
“My season has gone well so far. I performed well at the European Championships where I won gold and silver and at the World Series so I will hopefully be in contention for that selection for Rio next week.”
And Barrow was also pleased to have achieved glory after suffering with injuries as she held off European bronze medallist Georgia Ward.
The Plymouth-based diver told British Swimming: “I’m really happy with that result. It’s been a tough time coming back from injuries but having two years of injuries and having to stop and start with my diving was tough.
“But this time I felt like I came back properly and I spent some time up in Leeds with the physios and worked really hard to come to this result.
“I’ve worked really hard to make sure I was where I needed to be. I stuck at my diving. I have a good mindset and I feel like that showed today.”
Barry Middleton insists the Champions Trophy is still Great Britain's to lose despite suffering a 2-1 defeat to India on the second day of the tournament.
A first-half strike from Mandeep Singh opened the scoring for India, before Harmanpreet Singh doubled their advantage from the penalty spot minutes after half-time.
Ashley Jackson, playing in his 34th Champions Trophy match, immediately pulled one back for Britain from a penalty corner, but it wasn’t enough to break India down and deny them victory.
Great Britain drew their opening Champions Trophy match with Australia 0-0 and will now face Korea at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Monday.
Captain Middleton said: “We had our chances and we had the play but we didn’t quite put them away.
“We pride ourselves on our defence but we were a bit slack today. We were better today in terms of what we did on the ball and the energy around the play felt good up to a certain point.
“We just need to be a bit calmer and a bit smarter when we are in and around the goal.
“We’re looking forward to a day off and some recovery. We have to go out and win the next game, now. We believe we have the ability to go out and do that.”
Rebekah Tiler broke two British records on her way to winning the 69kg title at the British Weight Lifting Championships.
The European senior medallist lifted 98kg in the snatch at the Ricoh Arena before beating her existing British record by 2kg with a lift of 102kg, putting her in pole position going into the clean and jerk.
And although Emily Godley opened the next round with personal bests, Tiler achieved 125kg in her second lift to set a new total record of 227kg, before narrowly missing out on beating the British clean and jerk record with a failed attempt at 128kg.
In the 63kg Steph Owens was crowned British champion as favourite Zoe Smith was forced to withdraw due to an injury sustained in her opening lift.
Commonwealth Youth Games gold medallist Catrin Jones and Fraer Morrow won their first British senior titles in the 48kg and 53kg categories respectively and there was also a first British title in the men’s completion for Adam Fedorciow at 105kg.
The 77kg crown was won by Kristian McPhee, Cathal Byrd took the 85kg and Andrew Ruegg claimed the 105+kg title.
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