World's best divers at Sheffield

The South Yorkshire duo will both represent Great Britain at the special two-day event, part of an eight-strong national team gunning for success on home turf.

The FINA Diving World Series will see the world's best divers compete for international honours in Sheffield less than a year away from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

And with an entry list that features two Olympic Champions, China's Minxia Wu and Jingjing Guo, as well as four additional Olympic medallists, 12 World Champions and 24 World Championship medallists, the competition promises to showcase the very best of diving.

"I'm looking forward to competing," said Swain. "It's always a very big honour for me competing for Great Britain.

"It's not going to be easy, but this where you learn how to compete against the best. The pressure is going to be on the international divers coming here, so hopefully that helps.

"It's going to be nice diving in front of home supporters. I just hope I perform and the rest of the team do well as well."

GB team: Nicholas Robinson-Baker, Ben Swain (City of Sheffield); Callum Johnstone, Tandi Gerrard, Rebecca Gallantree (City of Leeds); Thomas Daley, Tonia Couch (Plymouth Diving); Stacie Powell (Southampton Diving).