Diving World Cup continues in Barra as Rio 2016 test event
Xinhua, February 21, 2016 Adjust font size:
Day two of the 20th FINA diving World Cup took place on Saturday at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre in the shadow of the Olympic village in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro.
On yet another perfect summers day the divers competed in the preliminary rounds of the women' s 3m synchronised springboard, men' s 10m synchronised platform and women's 10m platform.
In the women's 3m synchronised springboard Tingmao Shi and and Minxia Wu qualified first ahead of the Italians Cagnotto and Dallape with the Australian pair of Mills and Qin coming in third.
The men's 10m synchronised platform preliminary saw the German pair of Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein narrowly edged out the Chinese pair of Chen and Lin with the Ukrainians third.
In the women's 10m platform preliminar, the Malaysian Pamg finish ahead of the Yajie Si from China by the narrowest of margins 0.45.
The last event of the day and the only final the divers gathered to contest the women's 3m synchronised springboard.
The Chinese pair of Tingmao Shi and and Minxia Wu underlined their performance in qualifying by winning the gold by a wide margin. Second were the Canadian pair of Abel and Ware with the Australians Mills and Qin in third. Enditem