City of Sheffield youngster Jordan Houlden is a world champion.

City of Sheffield's Jordan Houlden wins World Junior Championship with British Diving team
By The Newsroom
Published 9th Dec 2016, 05:25 BST

He was part of th British Diving team to win the team event at the World Junior Championship in Kazan.

And the all-English quartet scored of Houlden, Noah Williams, Katherine Torrance and Parkwood Alumnus scored 335.45 to top the podium.

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Houlden, the former Parkwood Academy student, landed an inward 2 ½ somersaults with tuck (405C), from 1m, for 69.75.

The milestone also stamps Jordan and his team mates’ names in the history books as winners of the first ever staging of a mixed gender World Junior Championship event.

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