CITY of Bradford Esprit member Ruby Bower has achieved the club's best placing in a Junior World Championship.

Ruby, who has been training and competing with Bradford Aquatics for five years, finished ninth in the girls' B platform event at Penza in Russia.

She retained her position from the preliminary rounds and a competitive overall score of 332.30 points was enough to seal her place in the top ten.

This included an eye-catching performance in her final dive, which featured an inward two-and-a-half somersaults from the 7.5-metre board, notching her an impressive 60.75 points.

The teenager was picked through Bradford's successful Schools Talent and Identification programme in 2009, was ranked sixth in her first national event and has been improving steadily since.

Ruby's growing list of accomplishments include being girls' C platform champion at the the Elite Junior National Championships in 2012, girls' B platform champion in this year's Elite Junior National Championships and a bronze medallist at the European Junior Championships this summer in Bergamo, Italy.

At the other end of the spectrum, nine-year-old Hannah Hall was awarded a silver medal at the Hydro Novices' competition.

She used her newest dive – a back dive with a tuck, which she learned on a summer holiday course, to send her total soaring.