The diving competitions in 1948 were held at the Empire Pool later known as Wembley Arena ©Getty Images

Diver Esme Harris, who has died at the age of 90, had been the youngest member of the home team for the London 1948 Olympics.

Harris had been selected for the Games at the age of only 15.

She finished 13th in the women's springboard competition, which was held at Wembley Arena, then known as the Empire Pool.

Born in Oxford, she had attended Oxford Girls School and had started out as a swimmer.

In the Oxfordshire County Championships of 1946, she finished in a deadheat for first at the age of only 13.

The following year she had won the county championship in diving.

Esme Harris was the youngest member of the British team at London 1948 ©Oldest Olympians
Esme Harris was the youngest member of the British team at London 1948 ©Oldest Olympians

As a result, she began travelling from Oxford to London to train.

She won the Olympic trial in Blackpool but learned of her selection only a month before the Games.

Following her Olympic appearance, Harris was given a five-year pass to her local pool in recognition of her achievement.

She married Jack Gibb, a fellow gymnast and diver and worked for Pressed Steel, a car body manufacturing company in Oxford.

She later became a dinner lady, supervising children during the lunch hour at schools.

Her death follows shortly after the passing of team mate Edna Child who died aged 100 in May.

Child had been Britain's oldest Olympian at the time of her passing.