Men’s 3m Synchronised Springboard
As always in the diving, it was a low-scoring opening round with the compulsory dives. Zongyuan/Siyi (China) led with 55.80 but all pairs were within ten of each other. In the second round, they extended their lead totalling 113.40. The rest of the teams were led by Sakai/Teruachi (Japan) but the whole field was within five points of them. Hixon/Capobianco (United States) started the big dives with an 83.64. China scored 86.70 and had a 17-point gap over the US team with Japan in third. Another score over 80 for America only strengthened their grip on silver with an 85.10. Kuznetsov/Shleikher (Russia) scored 82.62 in the fourth round. Marsaglia/Tocci (Italy) put in their first dive over 80 with an 80.58. Again though, China kept improving their score with 90.78. The Americans started round five strongly with an 86.70, another team who were improving their score dive by dive. A poor Russian dive meant Castillo/Celaya (Mexico) ended round five in bronze medal position. America scored 88.92 in the final round, confirming themselves as improving on every dive in the final and almost guaranteeing silver. A failed dive from Russia saw them go to last in the competition. The Mexicans scored 66.12 but given the Russians failing, only Hausding/Rudiger (Germany) could stop them. Finally, Goodfellow/Laugher (Great Britain) joined the party in the last round with a score of 91.26, the highest score in the competition at that point but the weakness of the first five dives cost them. In the following dive, China took that away from them with a 99.18. Needing a score in the 80s, Germany scored 85.50 to take bronze.
🥇Wang Zongyuan/Xie Siyi 🇨🇳
🥈Andrew Capobianco/Michael Hixon 🇺🇸
🥉Patrick Hausding/Lars Rudiger 🇩🇪
Men’s 3m Springboard
At the halfway stage of qualification, Wang Zongyuan (China) led Xie Siyi (China) and Rommel Pacheco (Mexico). Zongyuan would finish qualification with a total score of 531.30 ahead of Siyi on 520.90. They were the only two to score over 500. Pacheco was in third with a twenty-point gap over Jack Heatly (Great Britain). In the semi-final, at the end of the opening round of dives the Chinese pair tied for the lead with Jack Laugher (Great Britain) and Andrew Capobianco (United States) tying for third. At halfway Zongyuan led Siyi and Laugher. The Chinese pair would switch places by the end of qualification with Laugher in third and Jack Heatly in fourth. In the final, at the end of the first round, four men scored 80. ahead of Siyi on 91.80, Zongyuan on 86.70, Laugher on 85.00 and Pacheco on 83.30. At the halfway stage led Siyi led on 267.30, Zongyuan on 256.50, Laugher on 252.35 and Woo Haram (South Korea) on 249.30. It would finish in the same order after the fourth round. Laugher would score a 96.90 to open a big gap to Haram on his fifth dive. Zongyuan would score a 91.80 leaving him 2.05 ahead of the Brit. Siyi would score 94.35 leaving him 23.85 ahead of his teammate. The final dive of Laugher scored 87.75. Zongyuan would score 102.60.
🥇Xie Siyi 🇨🇳
🥈Wang Zongyuan 🇨🇳
🥉Jack Laugher 🇬🇧
Men’s 10m Synchronised Platform
The opening round saw Yuan/Aisen (China) lead with a jump of 54.00. Three teams of Daley/Lee (Great Britain), Bondar/Minibaev (Russia), and Riendeau/Zsombor-Murray (Canada) all scored 52s. The British pair managed to get some breathing space in second in round two but China also pulled away from them. The pattern continued in round three, with China scoring a 90.78 putting them 15 points ahead of Britain and Russia who had a small gap to Canada, Mexico and Ukraine. Into round four Britain scored a 93.96 whilst Russia did the same dive but could not break the 90 barriers. It was the first poor Chinese dive as they only scored 73.44 seeing Britain into first. With the three medal teams pulling clear unless a mistake occurred, Britain scored 89.76 in their fifth dive whilst Russia could not break 80. China put the pressure back on but were still down by 1.74 heading into the last dive. The British pair landed a massive 101.01 in the final round and China could beat the score but not by enough to win gold.
🥇Tom Daley/Matty Lee 🇬🇧
🥈Chen Aisen/Cao Yuan 🇨🇳
🥉Aleksandr Bodnar/Viktor Minibaev 🇷🇺
Men’s 10m Platform
Despite an awful opening round, Tom Daley (Great Britain) would rebound in the preliminary phase to qualify in fourth. Ahead of him were Yang Jian (China), Cao Yuan (China) and Aleksandr Bondar (Russia). It was the same order that they finished in the semi-final although Yuan managed to go above Jian. The final began when Daley opened with a 98.60 only for Yuan to take the lead with 102.00. Yang followed with a 90.10 whilst Oleksii Sereda (Ukraine) was back in fourth with an 83.20. Victor Minibaev (Russia) would be the fourth man to go over 90, sporting 91.80 on his second dive. Daley followed with a 91.20 before Bondar matched his teammates' score. Jian would score 94.50 and Yuan would only score 81.60 to leave Daley in the lead after two rounds. It was a score of 91.80 for Daley leaving him on 281.60 at halfway. Jian would score 91.25 to leave him on 273.85 and Yuan scored 97.20 leaving him on 280.80. A bit of splash would cost Daley first in the fourth round as he could not continue his run of dives above 90. Jian took the lead with a 91.20 only for Yuan to score 97.20. Into round five and Daley would score 94.35. 102.60 for Jian and 101.75 for Yuan
would see the Chinese divers take a big lead into the final dives. Daley would confirm bronze with a 91.80 and the two Chinese divers would confirm divers, both clearing 100.
🥇Cao Yuan 🇨🇳
🥈Yang Jian 🇨🇳
🥉Tom Daley 🇬🇧
Women’s 3m Synchronised Springboard
After the required dives, the teams were tight. China led the way after the first two dives and took the best score of 75.60 in the third round to take control of the tournament. Italy went second, ahead of Canada, Great Britain’s Germany. From second to fifth, the teams were separated by 2.5. The USA had impressed in the required dives but a second poor required dive probably left them unable to medal. China followed in round four with a 74.70 but Canada scored 70.68 to put themselves in pole position for second. Great Britain also only managed 50, leaving them potentially too far away from medalling. Canada was nine points ahead of Italy who edged Germany by less than a point heading into the final round. Canada dived a 70.20 to almost guarantee a silver. China completed victory with a 76.50 to finish with 326.40. It came down to the last five with Italy needing 63.40 to take bronze from Germany. It was a poorly executed dive, only earning 45.90 to hand Germany the medal.
🥇Shi Tingmao/Wang Han 🇨🇳
🥈Jennifer Abel/Melissa Citrini Beaulieu 🇨🇦
🥉Lena Hentschel/Tina Punzel 🇩🇪
Women’s 3m Springboard
Shi Tingmao (China) led qualification with a score of 350.45 ahead of compatriot Wang Han (China) with 347.25. Behind them was the Canadian pair Jennifer Abel (Canada) and Pamela Ware (Canada). In the semi-final, Tingmao improved her score to 371.45 ahead of Han scoring 346.85 with Abel in third on 341.40 with over 20 points ahead of third. Tingmao took the early lead ahead of compatriot Han. Behind them, Abel had got into third, after Esther Qin (Australia) struggled on her second dive. On the third dive, Tingmao was one of two to score over 70 points, along with Krysta Palmer (United States) who scored 73.50 whilst Ware could only score 39.00 after a poor dive. The final would largely follow that often out. Tingmao was too far ahead to be caught, Han finished slightly better than Palmer having a lead anyway and no one from behind looked like catching.
🥇Shi Tingmao 🇨🇳
🥈Wang Han 🇨🇳
🥉Krysta Palmer 🇺🇸
Women’s 10m Synchronised Platform
Leong/Rinong (Malaysia) started well with a 50.40 taking them ahead of Benfeito/McKay (Canada) who scored 49.20. Yuxi/Jiaqi (China) went into the lead however with a 53.40. Even by the end of the second set of dives, it seemed to have separated into three tiers; China, Mexico and Canada and then everyone else. The Malaysian pair did not have a good third dive which saw Punzel/Wassen (Germany) go into third just ahead of Parratto/Schnell (United States). The fourth round saw Canada struggling with a poor score. China was clear of the rest by 47 points but the other seven teams were separated by only 13 points led by the United States team. Canada opened the final round with a 75.84 to end on 299.16. The Americans scored 78.72 to end up on 310.80, almost guaranteeing a medal. On the next go, Agundez/Oroczo (Mexico) improved their score to 299.70. The Japanese pair of Arai/Itahashi (Japan) sat in the medal places after four goes but a poor last dive only scored 61.54 and left them outside the medal places.
71.04
🥇Chen Yuxi/Zhang Jiaqi 🇨🇳
🥈Jessica Parratto/Delaney Schnell 🇺🇸
🥉Gabriela Agundez/Alejandra Oroczo 🇲🇽
Women’s 10m Platform
Chen Yuxi (China) was the leader of the preliminary event, scoring a total of 390.70, over 25 more than Quan Hongchan (China) and Delaney Schnell (United States). In the semi-final, Hongchan would lead with a total of 415.65. Once again Schnell would come third but only marginally ahead of Gabriela Agundez Garcia (Mexico) and Melissa Wu (Australia). In the opening round of the final, the top four made themselves clear. The Chinese pair would lead, tied on 82.50, Schnell was behind on 76.80 and Wu scored 75.00. Hongchan would take first place place on the second dive, leading by 19 points ahead of Yuxi, with Wu just behind. At halfway Hongchan led on 274.20, Yuxi on 245.10, Wu on 216.20 and Agundez Garcia on 209.05. The Chinese would extend her lead going into the final round whilst Wu only led Agundez Garcia by 6.50. The positions would remain, Hongchan won on 466.20, Yuxi on 425.40 and Wu on 371.40.
🥇Quan Hongchan 🇨🇳
🥈Chen Yuxi 🇨🇳
🥉Melissa Wu 🇦🇺
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