Coming back on her performance, He said: “This competition has shown us that all participating countries have improved a lot.This is a big motivation for us!”

In the qualifiers held in the morning, Zi He and Wang Han already gave an indication that they would secure the gold and the silver medals. He was the best finishing with 363.75 points in the semifinal A and Wang won the semifinal B, although the first sequence of dives that she started were behind Canada’s Jennifer Abel’s performance.

Although Abel did errors in two jumps in Merida, she is the winner of the overall ranking of the race at the end of the six stages of the competition, totaling 76 points. Second is the Chinese Tingmao Shi (72) that did not score in the two last phases (Windsor and Merida).

The members of the men's competition were exactly the same three placed of the semifinal series A, held in the morning. Only the order was reversed between Jahir Ocampo, now second in the last round of dives and as the women's race, a same country made gold and silver.

Mexican Rommel Pacheco and Jahir Ocampo were the respective winners with 500.70 and 471.80 points. Chinese Chao He very almost got the bronze medal (471.70). Only 0.10 point difference.

“I am delighted to be given this gift to Mexico. This is the result of my work, the work of my coach and also the Federation. In the latter stages we are coming from many competitions and got a good rhythm, essential for training. Now comes the hard part and also the best: the Pan-American Games and the FINA World Championships and I would love to repeat this performance.”

Ocampo said he was satisfied with overcoming not only the race, but in the sport.

In the morning already I felt the evidence as if it was meant to happen. I think we did a pretty final event and I was very happy to have been able to overcome myself in the last jump.

Pushing myself is something normal for me because I often heard in the past I wouldn’t be a good diver but Fernando Platas and his coach made me overpass this. I am now I think a good athlete.


Photo Credit: Christian Palam

The consistency of Jack Laugher’s results (GBR) over the six legs of the FINA competition placed him first in the overall ranking of the springboard of 3 meters, with 79 points, followed by the German Patrick Hausding (72) and the Chinese Yuan Cao (56).
The new mixed event of the Diving World Series saw Canada (331.53), China (317.10) and Britain (314.82) on the podium of the last stage.

The Canadians Jennifer Abel and François Imbaud-Dulac did not start well but were growing at each of the five dives and managed to win a though event. The most intense fighting was between Hao Yang and Han Wang (CHN) and the British Tom Daley and Alicia Blagg, which ended with few points of difference.

Abel approved the new dispute and spoke of the challenge of competing with a man.

“It is not easy, but for us it is a great experience because we have different sizes and rhythms and techniques. It is an exercise which pulls us up.”