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Jake Passmore has made history for Ireland twice this year. Aleksandar Djorovic/INPHO
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History-making Passmore rounds off brilliant week at World Junior Diving Championships

The 17-year-old finished fifth in the 3M Springboard final, having won Ireland’s first-ever world-level diving medal on Tuesday.

IRELAND’S JAKE PASSMORE brought the curtain down on a brilliant week at the 2022 World Junior Diving Championships in Montreal, Canada overnight, finishing fifth in the 3M Springboard final.

Passmore, 17, made history for the second time this year on Tuesday, when his 1M Springboard silver came as Ireland’s first-ever world-level diving medal.

The Leeds-based diver, who also won a first-ever European diving medal for Ireland when he claimed bronze in Romania in July, finished with a total score of 508.35 in the 3M final.

He battled back from 12th after two rounds to come agonisingly close to the podium, just 3.15 points behind bronze

“Congrats on a brilliant week, Jake,” Swim Ireland wrote on social media.

Swim Ireland Head of Diving, Damian Ball, paid tribute to Passmore — who is coached by Marc Holdsworth — after his historic medal win earlier this week.

“This was another strong performance from Jake, he is an excellent 1m springboard diver and he’s now added a World Junior silver medal to the European Junior bronze medal he collected earlier in the year,” he said.

“To maintain a consistent high standard of diving throughout 5.5hrs of competitive diving in one day, really demonstrates Jake’s resilience and mental toughness. We are all delighted that he’s made history by winning Ireland’s first-ever diving medal at a World Junior Championships.”

Meanwhile overnight, Ireland’s 4x100m Medley Relay of Danielle Hill, Mona McSharry, Molly Mayne and Victoria Catterson struck gold at the 2022 Toyota US Open Championships in Greensboro.

The quartet clocked a time of 4:07.69 to finish first ahead of University Of Tennessee and Duke University.

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