Heatly and Reid win gold for Scotland’s 50th medal
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James Heatly and Grace Reid won Scotland’s 50th Commonwealth Games medal with a mixed 3m synchronized springboard gold.
The pair topped the leaderboard with a brilliant finish that earned them 74.40 points, giving them a total of 306.00.
Their win is Scotland’s 13th gold at Birmingham 2022.
It is the first time that mixed gender synchronized diving has been contested at the Commonwealth Games.
“It’s crazy, I’m over the moon – I honestly don’t know what to say,” Heatly, 25, told BBC Sport.
“It’s been tough, I’m really happy to do this with Grace and save it all for the last day.
“If it becomes an event at the Olympics, we’re ready.”
Australia’s Li Shixin and Maddison Keeney took the silver medal, just 1.98 points behind Heatly and Reid’s total points, while bronze medalists Muhammad Syafiq Bin Puteh and Nur Dhabitah Binti Sabri of Malaysia were 4 .98 points back.
English teenage pair Ben Cutmore and Desharne Bent-Ashmeil were fourth.
Heatly and Reid, 26, who together won 3m synchronized bronze at the World Championships in Budapest earlier this summer, had missed out on medals in their individual events.
“It may not have been what I wanted in my individual events, but to come back to it and win the gold today, with our whole family here just blows my mind,” Reid said.
“Today we welcomed the expectation and that performance in Budapest a few weeks ago carried us very well today.
“Now I need to lie down and I keep seeing people with pizza, so I’m definitely going to get some pizza.”
