Diver Shaye Boddington says she will shake off a last placing in the women's one-metre springboard final at the Commonwealth Games.
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Boddington, who came back to diving 18 months ago after 13 years out of the sport, scored nearly 40 points lower than her qualifying mark this morning.
Scotland's Grace Reid won gold while two Australians, Georgia Sheehan and Esther Qin, took silver and bronze.
The scores in the final were lower almost across the board - Boddington's qualifying score of 237.95 would have placed her fifth in the final.
"In general tonight the diving was a bit off - maybe not as off as mine," Boddington said in the aftermath.
"I did a few things wrong this afternoon in my prep and was just absolutely shattered, so tired before the competition even started."
She was philosophical about the result.
"No one likes to have a bad competition so I will just move on from that one, but based on the prelim... I was really happy and I'll take that with me and that'll be the one I remember."
She would continue to work on her consistency, she said.
"That's what I did well this morning.
"Even though they weren't my best marks they were all consistently good, and that's what I want to work on."
The Games would serve as a learning curve for the next few international competitions coming up.
"Just building up prep for Tokyo 2020 - see if we can get there. It's still the goal and still on the cards."
