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Dec 2021
Ripon leisure centre named after local Olympic hero Jack Laugher
Ripon Leisure Centre is set to become the Jack Laugher Leisure and Wellness Centre in honour of the local Olympic hero.
Jack Laugher's family home is in Littlethorpe, near Ripon. He attended Ripon Grammar School and learned to dive with the Harrogate and District Diving Club.
He became Great Britain's first Olympic champion in diving alongside his partner Chris Mears at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He followed it up with an individual silver to become the most successful British diver ever.
In the years that followed he achieved three gold medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, a bronze and silver medal in the 3m individual and synchro springboard events respectively at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju and a bronze medal in the 3m springboard at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The council has said the new six-lane 25 metre pool at the Jack Laugher Leisure and Wellness Centre is now set to open "early in the new year" after a number of delays due to problems in construction.
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- Ripon’s delayed leisure scheme more than £3m over budget
- Jack Laugher’s mum: ‘He’s achieved so much but supports me too’
Jack Laugher said:
Councillor Stanley Lumley, Harrogate Borough Council's cabinet member for culture, tourism and sport, and chair of the board of directors at Brimhams Active, said:
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