Trainer Jane Figueiredo Leaves Aquatics GB After Guiding Divers To The Pinnacle
Jane Figueiredo, who guided Tom Daley and Matty Lee to 10m synchro Olympic gold in Tokyo, is leaving Aquatics GB after 11 years.
After beginning her training position on the Aquatics GB Efficiency Centre London in 2013, her divers have picked up a mixed 8 Olympic medals – with Noah Williams, Daley and Scarlett Mew Jensen all achieving the rostrum at Paris 2024, as a part of Workforce GB’s best-diving efficiency at a Video games.
She has contributed to the improvement of Aquatics GB as a pressure in global diving as a trainer on senior GB groups, together with her athletes concerned with that Paris go back, a record-breaking seven-medal British haul eventually February’s Global Aquatics Championships in Doha, six on the 2022 Global Championships in 2022 and Daley and Lee’s name in 2021.
Rikuto Tamai of Japan, silver, Yuan Cao of China, gold, and Noah Williams of Nice Britain: Picture Courtesy: Deepbluemedia
Figueiredo, whose ultimate match got here eventually weekend’s Aquatics GB Diving Wintry weather Cup in Sheffield, was once some of the lead coaches in UK Recreation’s inaugural Feminine Coaches Management Programme again in 2021.
Her achievements had been recognised remaining November when she was once honoured with the IOC Feminine Coaches Lifetime Fulfillment Award for 2024.
The yearly awards rejoice one feminine and one male trainer who’ve performed a important position in guiding the carrying and private trips of athletes beneath their tutelage.
On her resolution to step away, the 61-year-old mentioned via Aquatics GB:
“The remaining 11 years with Aquatics GB and Dive London within the Efficiency Centre has simply been unbelievable – one of the thrilling, most exciting time of my profession, main Tom Daley after which the remainder of the cohort of Olympians that experience gained medals over the last 3 cycles.
“It’s a very powerful time for me in my opinion, and it’s without a doubt a private resolution – I’m no longer uninterested in training or uninterested in where, I simply need to put myself first now and care for myself and ensure I spend a while with my family members. I’ll be looking at diving from the out of doors, and seeking to experience it as a spectator. That shall be bizarre!
“It’s been a stupendous adventure, I’ve had in point of fact unbelievable other folks to paintings with and the ones other folks had been unbelievable to me, supportive, and I will be able to love and omit they all. It’s no longer a good-bye, it’s simply ‘I’ll goodbye!’
“There are lots of moments that stand out. I think in terms of at the pinnacle of sport, especially in diving, it would be Tom and Matty winning the gold medal in Tokyo. That was pretty darn special – and then of course Noah Williams winning a bronze in the individual (in Paris), and the girls, Scarlett and Yasmin, winning the women’s 3m synchro bronze medal, the first in more than six decades. Those are significant moments. There are a lot of defining moments, like Tom winning Worlds as well. But it’s probably just what we built in London, I would say that is one of the most defining things, starting from scratch to where we are today.”
Aquatics GB Diving Head Trainer Alexei Evangulov mentioned:
“I first met Jane in 1996 all through the Atlanta Video games, and we’ve labored facet by way of facet since then. I invited her to sign up for the British Diving training group in 2012, and she or he authorized it with an excellent excitement and set to work with the similar zeal.
“Inside of two years, Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow gained the Males’s 10m Synchro bronze medal on the Rio 2016 Olympics. It’s price noting that ahead of then, Jane was once regarded as as a ‘springboard specialist’ as all her earlier Olympic medals had been from 3m. The following two Olympic medals had been in Tokyo, once more at the 10m platform – Tom personally, and that sensible 10m synchro gold for Tom and Matty. And in any case, in Paris, Jane reached her perfect luck – 3 medals, two on platform and one on springboard, as Scarlett Mew Jensen and Yasmin Harper [coached by Tom Owens] gained Britain’s first-ever feminine synchro Olympic medal.
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“I can’t recall any other international diving coach with such a rich and successful Olympic career. Her impact in British diving history cannot be overstated. We are connected not only by our profession, but also a long and warm friendship, and I wish her the best for the future.”
Chris Spice, Aquatics GB Efficiency Director, added:
“Jane’s have an effect on on Aquatics GB diving is visual no longer handiest at the endured luck of her divers throughout more than one Olympics, Global Championships and Europeans, however in the best way she is seen and valued by way of different coaches throughout global diving – as we noticed when she was once honoured with the IOC Coaches Lifetime Fulfillment Award remaining 12 months.
“The longevity of Tom Daley’s success working with her is just one example – to have won medals at three Olympics and become world champion at three different World Championships as a combination speaks to that. Jane will always remain a great friend of our programme and we wish her all the best for the future.”
