Scarlett Mew Jensen targets synchro medal to kick off Paris 2024 Olympics

With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games around the corner, we’re taking a closer look at some of our aquatics athletes who are representing Team GB in the French capital this summer.

On Saturday 27 July, Scarlett Mew Jensen and her partner Yasmin Harper will have the chance to win Team GB’s first aquatic medal of Paris 2024.

The pair will line up together in the Women’s 3m Synchronised Springboard final, hoping to replicate their recent success on the world stage and claim their first Olympic medals.

And for Dive London’s Mew Jensen – who was initially encouraged to take up the sport by her PE teacher as an eight-year-old – it will be a dream to have her family and friends be in the stands to watch her compete and hopefully medal at her second Olympic Games.

She said: “I’m so excited. It’s a big dream to have them watch me and it’s a great opportunity to have them there as it’s so close and they didn’t really have the option to come to Tokyo!

“I just can’t wait to see them there and to be able to celebrate regardless.

“Mine and Yasmin’s goal for the Games hasn’t changed. I think we’re set on getting that medal, we’ve obviously competed incredibly well over the past year with a couple of world medals so that’s definitely the goal.

“But it’s also just to go out there have fun and it’s Yasmin’s first Games so it’s really important to have a great experience too.

‘It was like it was meant to be’

“I think Tokyo was obviously such a different environment so I don’t really know what to expect still. But I do know that I’ve been on that board at an Olympic Games so I think I’m half prepared.

“And I think if I can give Yas a bit of reassurance on that side of things, keeping level headed and not letting the nerves get to me too much having been there before.”

Mew Jensen was just 19 when she made her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 where she finished 22^nd in the individual Women’s 3m Springboard.

After an injury hit 2022, she began to team with Harper where they stormed to silver in the Women’s 3m Synchro at the 2023 World Championships in Japan, before backing that up with world bronze in Doha last February.

The pair have a really close relationship, despite Yasmin representing City of Sheffield, and Mew Jensen believes this has helped them towards their success.

“We’ve been friends for a really long time. We’ve been on the scene together since we were so young and when you’re good mates with somebody it’s really easy to bring that side of work in.

“It’s great to have someone that I’m really close to that I get to dive alongside and work with.

“When we got told we were going to the Olympics, I was actually in Sheffield with Yasmin.

“It was a really bizarre thing that we were together, it was like it was meant to be. We literally just got out the pool and we got the email and it’s a feeling that never gets old. It will never lose it’s shine.”

The Women’s 3m Synchronised Springboard event takes place on Saturday 27 July at 10am UK time.