Team GB’s Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix secured her spot in Tuesday’s women’s 10m platform final after finishing third in the semi-finals.
The 19-year-old will be Great Britain’s sole representative in the competition after Lois Toulson missed out on a qualifying spot.
Five days after claiming bronze in the 10m synchronised event together, the pair returned to the Aquatics Centre on Monday with the aim of qualifying for the individual final.
After easing through the preliminary rounds, both reached the semi-finals, where Spendolini-Sirieix put in a brilliant display, scoring 367.00 points overall to sit behind Chinese divers Hongchan Quan and Yuxi Chen, who finished first and second, respectively.
Toulson finished strongly with a 65.60 on her final dive to push her up the leaderboard, but fell just short of the top 12 qualifying positions with a 13th-placed finish.
As an individual bronze medallist at the World Aquatics Championship in Doha in February, and a gold medallist in the team event, Spendolini-Sirieix has already delivered on the promise by making the podium in Paris with Toulson. But this time, having not enjoyed her experience at the Tokyo Games, she is determined to enjoy it and her preparation for today included an eve-of-dive Bible study in a bid to deal with the pressure.
“Mentally I’ve changed a lot because I have a focus that’s something other than needing to prove myself to people,” Spendolini-Sirieix said.
“I feel like sometimes as athletes our identity depends on whether our competition has been good whereas for me my identity in Christ is so total and so set in stone that it doesn’t matter how my competition goes. Whatever happens, happens. I just give it to God.
“It would mean a lot to win an Olympic medal, of course, but it wouldn’t change who I am. It wouldn’t change what my core beliefs are.”