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DWS 2013, Guadalajara day 3: China's Qiu Bo and Huixia Liu dominate 10m platform

sarah@fina.org (Claudia Ruiz, FINA Press Correspondent in Mexico) — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:40:39 GMT

GUADALAJARA, Mexico - Qiu Bo and Huixia Liu from China were dominant in the men's and women's 10m platform, respectively, on day 3 of competition at the FINA/Midea Diving World Series in Guadalajara on May 19.

Qiu Bo is back and performed brilliantly, earning perfect 10s in two of his dives: a Back 3.5 Somersault (207B, DD 3.6) and a Reverse 3.5 Somersault (307C, DD 3.3). Qiu Bo was again the king of the platform and totalled a grueling score of 550.40 points. It was a close competition with Mexicans Ivan Garcia, silver medallist with 534.05 and German Sanchez, bronze medallist with 507.80 points.

DGP 2013, San Juan day 4: China pockets six titles

sarah@fina.org (Sarah C.) — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:55:28 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – China easily dominated the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2013 in San Juan, Puerto Rico winning gold in six out of eight events in both men and women categories. The Chinese women's team won gold in all four diving events.

The Chinese synchro diving team of Qu Lin and Zhang Jun easily won the women's 3m springboard with a score of 292.80. China's Jie Lian and Huang Xiaohui had also won gold and silver in the women's 10m platform. Inge Jansen and Celine Van Duijn from the Netherlands won the silver medal and American divers Madison Witt and Eszter Pryor scored 271.80 points to win the bronze.

DWS 2013, Guadalajara day 2: China's Zi He and Mexico's Yahel Castillo win 3m springboard

sarah@fina.org (Claudia Ruiz, FINA Press Correspondent in Mexico) — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:26:50 GMT

GUADALAJARA, Mexico - Mexico and China bagged more gold medals on day 2 of the FINA/Midea Diving World Series 2013 in Guadalajara with Zi He (CHN) and Yahel Castillo (MEX) taking out the women's and men's 3m springboard, respectively. For Mexico, this is the first time in their history that they pocket three titles in one edition of the Series (plus one silver).

Zi He (CHN) collected her fourth title of the 2013 season, remaining unbeaten and winning with a total 376.10 points. Laura Sanchez (MEX) won the silver medal with 371.40 and Jennifer Abel (CAN), bronze in 370.05.

DGP 2013, San Juan day 3: Colombia and China win synchro events

sarah@fina.org (Sarah C.) — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:26:05 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Colombian divers Cristian Arayon and Miguel Reyes came out with the gold in the men's 3m springboard synchro at the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2013 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Arayon and Reyes scored 359.31 points after their six dives, besting the teams from the United States, Brazil, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

"This is a highly competitive event, with countries like China and Brazil as top performers. There were several competitors performing excellent dives here that increased the competitiveness of the meet," said Reyes after receiving his gold medal.

DWS 2013, Guadalajara day 1: Golden day for Mexico and China

sarah@fina.org (Claudia Ruiz, FINA Press Correspondent in Mexico) — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:40:58 GMT

GUADALAJARA, Mexico - China and Mexico repeated as gold medallists on the opening day of the fifth round of the FINA/Midea Diving World Series 2013, held in Guadalajara, Jalisco (MEX) from May 17-19. In his homeland, to the sound of mariachi, Ivan Garcia and German Sanchez, dubbed the 'wonder boys' for their prowess in the air and high degree of difficulty, won the gold medal in the men's 10m platform synchro with a total 467.55 points.

The Mexican pair, who won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics, delighted their audience and were applauded in each of their six dives. Russia took the second place with Victor Minibaev and Artem Chesakov totalling 428.49. The bronze went to Jose Guerra and Jeinkler Aguirre of Cuba with 409.11 points, with one more medal going to Latin America.

DGP 2013, San Juan day 2: Chinese divers top favourites ahead of finals

sarah@fina.org (Sarah C.) — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:06:47 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Chinese divers easily advanced on Friday to the men's 3m springboard and women's 10m platform finals at the fifth meet of the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2013 taking place in San Juan, Puerto Rico from May 16-19.

Sun Zhiyi dominated the men's 3m springboard with 493.60 points, more than 44 points ahead of Brazil’s Cesar Castro, his closest challenger in the event. Zhiyi averaged 8.36 points in the event. Castro, a veteran of three Olympiads, said he is focusing on always improving his performance, but acknowledged the Chinese diving team has demonstrated to be "the strongest in the competition".

DGP 2013, San Juan day 1: nice start for Chinese, Canadian and Dutch divers

sarah@fina.org (Sarah C.) — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:47:26 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Top qualifier China advance to the men’s 10m platform and women’s 3m springboard finals after finishing first in both events on the opening day of San Juan's Diving Grand Prix, organised from May 16-19.

Huo Liang (Group A) and Jiang Yang (Group B) finished 1-2 in the 10m platform with 526.75 and 489.75 points, respectively. Cristian Arayon (COL, 406.55 points) and Robert Paez (VEN, 404.15 points) from semi final A and Philippe Gagne (CAN, 389.00 points) and David Dinsmore (USA, 383.50 points) from semi final B also made it to the men's 10m platform final.

DGP 2013, Fort Lauderdale day 4: China completes sweep of gold

sarah@fina.org (Sarah C.) — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:26:50 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – Troy Dumais (Ventura, Calif./Austin, Texas) won the silver medal on 3m Sunday as the fourth stop of the FINA Diving Grand Prix came to a close at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex.

China completed the sweep, winning four more gold medals to walk away with victories on all eight events this week. He Chao won the men’s 3m gold and Jie Lian took the women’s platform title. Zhang Jun and Qu Lin paired for the women’s 3m synchro crown, and Huo Liang and Jian Yan teamed up to win the men’s 10m synchro title.

DGP 2013, Fort Lauderdale day 3: China's Zhang Jun and Yanquan Zhang take gold in 3m and 10m events

sarah@fina.org (Sarah C.) — Sun, 12 May 2013 08:42:11 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – David Boudia (Noblesville, Ind.) won the silver medal on 10m Saturday at the FINA Diving Grand Prix, his first meet since winning gold at the 2012 Olympic Games.

China won all four gold medals awarded Saturday. Zhang Yanquan edged Boudia for the 10m gold, and Zhang Jun took gold in the women’s 3m contest. He Chao and Li Shixin paired for the men’s 3m synchro gold, with Jie Lian and Huang Xiaohui winning the women’s 10m synchro title.

WP Trophy 2013, day 6: Uzbekistan triumphs over Egypt 8-5 and wins Trophy

sarah@fina.org (Sarah C.) — Sat, 11 May 2013 23:43:43 GMT

On the final day of the 4th FINA Men’s Water Polo World Development Trophy, Peru rested. They had finished sixth in Group A and, with 11 teams participating in the event, they became the 11th ranked team in the tournament. The ninth place game was played between another team from the Americas, Guatemala, and an Asian representative – Singapore. From the outset, this was a ‘no contest’. Singapore held the Guatemalans scoreless in the first period jumping out to a 4-0 lead. They continued to dominate leading 11-2 and 17-4 at the end of the next two periods before holding Guatemala down in the fourth period to win by a final score of 20-5. This gave Singapore a ninth place finish while Guatemala finished tenth giving the Americas the bottom two places.

The next morning game saw two African teams – South Africa and Tunisia battle it out for seventh place. The South Africans grabbed a 3-1 first period lead. Tunisia cut the deficit to 1 by the end of the half, trailing 4-3. Both teams shut down the offence of the other team in the scoreless third period so Tunisia started the fourth period down 1 goal. The game previous against Singapore, Tunisia had scored a come from behind victory in front of their boisterous fans. This time, again having the most vocal supporters in the tournament, they had no more surprises as South Africa, even missing a penalty shot, held Tunisia off and finished as 5-3 victor. South Africa, likely most improved team throughout the tournament took home a seventh place finish while Tunisia from North Africa finished eighth.