Grace Reid

{{Short description|Scottish diver (born 1996)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2017}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Grace Reid

| image =

| country = Great Britain
Scotland

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1996|5|9|df=y}}

| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland

| height = 1.69 m

| event = Diving

| level =

| club = Dive London

| coach = Jane Figueiredo

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| show-medals = no

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{{MedalSport|Women's diving}}

{{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|2017 Budapest|3 m mixed synchro}}

{{MedalSilver|2024 Doha|1 m springboard}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2022 Budapest|3 m mixed synchro}}

{{Medal|Competition|European Games}}

{{Medal|Silver|2023 Kraków-Małopolska|{{nowrap|3 m mixed synchro}}}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2023 Kraków-Małopolska|1 m springboard}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2016 London|3 m mixed synchro}}

{{MedalGold|2018 Glasgow|3 m springboard}}

{{MedalSilver|2018 Glasgow|3 m mixed synchro}}

{{MedalSilver|2022 Rome|3 m mixed synchro}}

{{MedalBronze|2016 London|3 m springboard}}

{{MedalBronze|2022 Rome|Team event}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Diving Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|2023 Rzeszów|3 m mixed synchro}}

{{MedalBronze|2023 Rzeszów|1 m springboard}}

{{MedalCompetition|FINA Diving World Cup}}

{{MedalBronze|2018 Wuhan|3 m mixed synchro}}

{{MedalCountry|{{SCO}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalGold|2018 Gold Coast|1 m springboard}}

{{MedalGold|2022 Birmingham|3 m mixed synchro}}

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Grace Elizabeth Reid (born 9 May 1996) is a Scottish diver representing Scotland and Great Britain, and specialising in 1 metre and 3 metre springboard disciplines. She is a world championship silver medallist in the 1 metre springboard, twice a world medallist in the 3 metre mixed synchronised 3 metre springboard discipline, a double gold medallist at both the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games (once each in individual and springboard events in both cases) as well as a multiple minor medallist in both those events, the European Games and the FINA Diving World Cup. Domestically, Reid is a three-time national champion.

Career

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, representing Scotland she competed in the Women's 3 metre springboard, aged only 14. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she competed in the Women's 1 metre springboard and Women's 3 metre springboard events. At her third Games, the 2018 Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Reid won gold in the 1 metre springboard the first Scottish female diver to win a medal at the games.{{Cite news |url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/grace-reid-takes-scotlands-commonwealth-games-medal-tally-to-40-with-stunning-diving-gold/ |title=Grace Reid takes Scotland's Commonwealth Games medal tally to 40 with stunning diving gold - Sunday Post |work=Sunday Post |access-date=13 April 2018 |language=en-US}} Four years later in Birmingham, paired with James Heatly she won her second Commonwealth title in the mixed 3 metre synchronised springboard event,{{cite web |last1=Delaney |first1=James |title=Heatly and Reid seal gold for Scotland's 50th medal of Games |url=https://news.stv.tv/sport/james-heatly-and-grace-reid-seal-gold-for-scotlands-50th-medal-of-commonwealth-games-in-synchronised-diving |website=STV News |access-date=8 September 2022 |date=8 August 2022}} came 4th in the women's 1 metre springboard event and 8th in the women's 3 metre springboard event.{{cite web |title=Grace Elizabeth REID |url=https://results.birmingham2022.com/#/athlete-details/61433 |website=results.birmingham2022.com |access-date=4 November 2022 |language=en}}

Reid made her debut for Great Britain at the 2015 European Diving Championships. At the 2016 European Aquatics Championships she won Gold in the Mixed 3 m springboard synchro with partner Tom Daley.{{cite web |url=http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/grace-reid-wins-diving-gold-medal-with-tom-daley-1-4126229 |title=Grace Reid wins diving gold medal with Tom Daley |date=12 May 2016 |work=Edinburgh Evening News |access-date=12 May 2016 |archive-date=25 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725135040/http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/grace-reid-wins-diving-gold-medal-with-tom-daley-1-4126229 |url-status=dead }} She also won Bronze in the Women's 3 m springboard becoming the first Scot to win an individual European Championships diving medal for Great Britain since 1954.{{cite web |title=European Aquatics Championships: GB's Grace Reid wins bronze |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/diving/36293403 |website=BBC |date=14 May 2016 |access-date=13 February 2018 |archive-date=21 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621092958/https://www.bbc.com/sport/diving/36293403 |url-status=dead }}

Following Daley's decision to withdraw from all 2018 diving competitions, Reid partnered with Ross Haslam and the pair won the bronze medal at the 2018 FINA Diving World Cup,{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/44426087 |title=Fina Diving World Cup: Grace Reid and Ross Haslam win 3m synchro World Cup bronze |date=9 June 2018 |publisher=BBC}} followed by silver at the 2018 European Championships.

Diving achievements

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References

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