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Photo Courtesy: Birmingham 2022<\/p><\/div>\n

The dive tower, which took five weeks to build, includes 31 separate English-made, concrete pieces weighing 233 tonnes in total.<\/p>\n

The structure is 12m high and took 2000 hours to build.<\/p>\n

The diving competition will see men and women compete in the 1m and 3m springboard events and the 10m platform event, as well as the 3m springboard and 10m platform synchronised events.<\/p>\n

For the first time ever at a Commonwealth Games, there will also be mixed synchronised 3m springboard and mixed synchronised 10m platform diving included on the programme.<\/p>\n

Birch competed at the Games on the Gold Coast, Australia, in 2018 where she finished eighth in the 10m platform and fifth alongside individual bronze medallist Lois Toulson in the 10m synchro.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old – who finished one place outside the medals in the mixed 10m synchro at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju with Noah Williams – spoke of the benefits she envisaged from competing in front of a home crowd.<\/p>\n

“I haven\u2019t had the opportunity many times to compete in front of a home crowd but there was a World Series competition that was held in London.<\/p>\n
“In terms of comparing it to international competitions \u2013 just having that support of the home crowd was completely different to anything I had ever experienced.<\/p>\n
“I think just having everyone behind you and that kind of motivation and just that feeling that everyone is willing you to do well.<\/p>\n
“I think at that competition pretty much all of our divers did very well if not a personal best. I truly believe that home crowd really helped support everyone.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Noah Williams: Photo Courtesy: Birmingham 2022<\/p><\/div>\n
Williams won silver alongside Matthew Dixon<\/strong> in the 10m synchro at the 2018 Games – one place behind their fellow English divers Tom Daley<\/strong> and Dan Goodfellow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
He said:<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe dive tower looks so impressive, as does the whole Sandwell Aquatics Centre \u2013 it is going to be a fantastic facility to compete in and there will be lots of divers across the Commonwealth who will be really excited to see this phenomenal progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing the completed dive tower means that you can now start to visualise what it would be like to compete at Birmingham 2022 and I\u2019m sure that come Games time the atmosphere inside that venue will be absolutely unreal, especially with a home crowd to support Team England.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Nigel Huddleston MP, Minister for Sport, Tourism and Heritage, <\/strong>said:<\/p>\n
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“The Aquatics Centre is really taking shape and the new dive tower is another important milestone in this exciting build.<\/p>\n
“The Centre will be a spectacular stage for our home nation swimmers and divers, and an important sporting legacy for the people of Sandwell.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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