Diving: Gerrard books ticket to Barcelona

Tandi Gerrard beat her City of Leeds team-mates, Rebecca Gallantree and Emma Teather, to win the women's one-metre final on the last day of the British National Diving Championships at Manchester Aquatics Centre yesterday.

Tandi Gerrard beat her City of Leeds team-mates, Rebecca Gallantree and Emma Teather, to win the women's one-metre final on the last day of the British National Diving Championships at Manchester Aquatics Centre yesterday.

Gerrard took the title after amassing an impressive 243.06 points in the final, while Gallantree (219pts) finished in second spot and Teather (201.3) third. Gerrard had missed qualifying for the women's three-metre discipline, but her victory guarantees a place at the Fina World Championships in Barcelona in July.

"Ideally, I would have liked to have qualified for all three events, but I'm chuffed with the way I performed over the last few days," she said. "I've been adding a degree of difficulty to all of my dives. I've achieved personal bests in nearly all of my events at the championships and I'm looking forward to going to Barcelona."

Peter Waterfield dominated the men's one-metre event, after breaking two British records on Saturday. The Commonwealth Games gold medallist was in top form as he edged out Blake Aldridge, formerly of Crystal Palace, and Michael Barnes, from the City of Leeds.

Waterfield claimed: "I'm starting to feel my form is coming back after a tough season, but to qualify for the worlds was the priority and now I'm there."

PROVISIONAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TEAM: Leon Taylor, Jane Smith, Tony Ally, Mark Shipman (City of Sheffield); Karen Smith, Tracey Richardson (Southend); Monique McCarroll (Edinburgh); Stacie Powell (Bagiu Diving Institute); Tandi Gerrard (City of Leeds). Possible inclusion: Blake Aldridge (City of Sheffield).