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Wang, Yang add to China diving haul

Source: Agencies | August 3, 2015, Monday | Print Edition

CHINA dominated the first mixed 3-meter synchronized springboard diving event at the world championships in Kazan, Russia, yesterday.

The experienced Wang Han and her 17-year-old partner Yang Hao scored an unbeatable 339.90 points, posting the best-scoring dives in three of the five rounds as each of their rivals made mistakes.

Yang said his friendship with Wang, a two-time world silver medalist tasting gold for the first time, had been crucial. “She looked after me and made sure that I wasn’t worried,” he said through a translator, adding that Wang was like “a sister” to him.

Chinese divers have now matched their gold medal haul from both the 2007 and 2013 championships when they left Melbourne and Barcelona, respectively. Only their 2011 campaign was better when they claimed an immaculate ten from ten and they can match their tally in the final diving event, the men’s 10m platform final.

Second place at the Aquatics Palace went to the Canadian duo of Jennifer Abel and Francois Imbeau-Dulac, who started slowly but snatched silver with an 80.58 final dive — the highest score of the competition — for a total of 317.01.

That was just enough to beat Italy’s 17-time European champion Tania Cagnotto and her partner Maicol Verzotto on 315.30. It was Cagnotto’s third medal of these championships after gold in the 1m springboard final and bronze in the 3m event. Verzotto won his first worlds medal.

Mixed-gender diving events are a new addition to the world championships, with three on the program in Kazan.

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