Sarah Barrow

Lizzie Armitstead, Sarah Barrow and Alicia Blagg
Personal information
Born	(1988-10-22) 22 October 1988 (age 35) Plymouth, England [1]
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) [1]
Weight	52 kg (115 lb) [1]
Sport
Club	Plymouth Diving
Coached by	2010 onwards Andy Banks [2]
Medal record Representing  Great Britain European Championships 2012 Eindhoven 10 metre synchro [3] 2014 Berlin 10 m platform [4] 2013 Rostock 10 metre synchro [5] Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 10 m platform synchro [6]

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]

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