Sarah Barrow
{{short description|British diver}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Sarah Barrow
| image = Lizzie Armitstead, Sarah Barrow and Alicia Blagg.jpg
| caption = Lizzie Armitstead, Sarah Barrow and Alicia Blagg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1988|10|22}}
| birth_place = Plymouth, England
| occupation =
| club = Plymouth Diving
| coach = 2010 onwards Andy Banks
| medaltemplates =
{{Medal|Country|{{flagu|Great Britain}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2012 Eindhoven|10 metre synchro}}
{{MedalGold|2014 Berlin|10 m platform}}
{{MedalSilver|2013 Rostock|10 metre synchro}}
{{Medal|Country|{{flagu|England}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{Medal|Silver|2014 Glasgow|10 m platform synchro}}
}}
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
Barrow competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the 10 m synchro event with Monique Gladding.{{Cite news|url=http://www.swimming.org/diving/sarah-barrow/|title=Sarah Barrow profile {{!}} England Diving|date=2015-01-31|work=ASA Diving Sport Hub|access-date=2017-10-11}} The team finished in fifth. She competed in the same event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, this time with Tonia Couch. They finished fourth, and replicated this result at the 2011 European Championships.
Barrow won the gold medal at the 2012 European Championships at the 10 metre synchro event, with Tonia Couch.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18111685|title=BBC Sport – London 2012: Tonia Couch & Sarah Barrow win Euro gold|work=BBC Online|accessdate=23 July 2012}} They scored a then personal best of 319.56 points, beating the Ukrainian pair by 8.88 points. This was the first European medal awarded to female British divers in 74 years. The team of Barrow and Couch had finished in 4th at the preceding World Championships in 2011.
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/barrow-sarah-1079024/|title=Sarah Barrow|publisher=London2012.com|accessdate=23 July 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730103327/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/barrow-sarah-1079024/|archivedate=30 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016/results/sports/diving/womens-10m-platform|title=Results – Womens 10m Platform – Diving – Rio 2016 – Olympics|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=24 September 2017}}
The team of Barrow and Couch were unable to defend their European title in 2013, finishing with a silver medal.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/22996134|title=Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow earn European diving silver|date=20 June 2013|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=24 September 2017}} That year, Barrow finished fourth in the individual 10 m platform event at the World Championships.
In 2014, Barrow won Commonwealth silver in the 10 m synchro event, with Tonia Couch.{{Cite web|url=http://g2014results.thecgf.com/PEVU/PEVU_DVW202101.html|title=Glasgow 2014 – Women's Synchronised 10m Platform Final|last=|first=|date=|website=g2014results.thecgf.com|language=|access-date=24 September 2017}} That year, she also finished 4th in the individual 10 m at the World Championships, the best result ever for a British woman.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/37462348|title=Sarah Barrow: Olympic diver and Commonwealth medallist retires at 27|date=2 October 2016|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=24 September 2017}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/28898690|title=European Championships: Sarah Barrow wins diving gold|date=22 August 2014|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=24 September 2017}}
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/35432822|title=Tonia Couch says synchro split with Sarah Barrow 'wasn't great'|date=2016|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=24 September 2017}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/35618132|title=Rio 2016: Tonia Couch & Sarah Barrow secure sixth berth for Olympics|date=19 February 2016|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=24 September 2017}}
Later career and retirement
Barrow retired after the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she placed in fifth place with Couch in the 10m synchro. For the last 6 years of her 13-year career, she trained at Plymouth Diving Club.{{Cite news|url=http://www.swimming.org/diving/sarah-barrow-retires-competitive-diving/|title=Former European champion Sarah Barrow retires from competitive diving|date=5 October 2016|work=ASA Diving Sport Hub|access-date=24 September 2017}} She also studied Sport Science at Leeds Metropolitan University.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/18013021|title=Sarah Barrow profile|date=14 June 2012|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=24 September 2017}}
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Category:Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic divers for Great Britain
Category:Sportspeople from Plymouth, Devon
Category:Alumni of Leeds Beckett University
Category:Divers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists in diving
Category:Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Category:European Aquatics Championships medalists in diving