Another significant milestone has been reached at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Smethwick after the dive tower was completed at the end of last month.

The tower, which took five weeks to build, includes 31 separate English made concrete pieces weighing 233 tonnes in total. The structure is 10m high and took five people 2000 hours to build.

The diving competition at Birmingham 2022 includes 1m and 3m springboard events, and the 10m platform event for men and women, as well as the 3m springboard and 10m platform synchronised events. 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.

Team England has a great record of winning diving medals at the Commonwealth Games having previously bagged 75, including 31 golds, 22 silvers and 22 bronze medals.

One of the team’s most recent diving medallists is Noah Williams, who won silver in the men’s 10m synchronised platform competition on the Gold Coast in 2018. Noah, who is also a European bronze medallist, recently saw photos and video footage of the completed dive tower and said:

“The dive tower looks so impressive, as does the whole Sandwell Aquatics Centre – 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.

“Seeing the completed dive tower means that you can now start to visualise what it would be like to compete at Birmingham 2022.

”I’m sure that come Games time the atmosphere inside that venue will be absolutely unreal, especially with a home crowd to support Team England.”

The Sandwell Aquatics Centre will host swimming and para swimming at the Commonwealth Games from 29 July to 3 August and the diving competition from 4 August to 8 August. With 66 medal events in total set to be held at the facility, it will be the stage for more medal moments than any other Birmingham 2022 venue.