Stephan Feck and Patrick Hausding of Germany kept Great Britain at bay to claim the third podium spot. It is also their third medal this season, all bronze, which is a record for them in a single World Series campaign. The German aces started strong posting a score of 52.20 for their first dive, equaling the score of the team from China. They were in second after each of the next three rounds and dropped behind the squad from Great Britain in their fifth dive before scoring 79.20 in their final diver, a total of 20.04 points out of first place.

In the women’s 3m synchro, He Zi and Wang Han of China successfully repeated their gold medal victory from the 2014 Windsor event. He Zi becomes the third diver in any gender to win 20 gold medals in a single event.  "We felt the passion of the Canadian audience and it gave us courage." said He Zi.
  
Esther Qin and Samantha Mills of Australia earned a silver medal in their World Series debut today, finishing 14.70 points behind the Chinese champions. They are the second Australian medallists in this event this season, the most since 2009 with 3, after Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith claimed silver in Beijing in March.
 
Local favorites Jennifer Abel and Pamela Ware of Canada finished in third, unable to claim another silver medal to match the one they earned in this pool in 2014: The Canadians are now on a streak of four meets on the podium. They have claimed nine medals in 13 springboard events as a pair (S5-B3), including medals won in the last three meets.

Looking back on today's competition Abel said "It was a first for us, because we did a new dive, only we have done this dive on the international scene. It’s our last dive, 51.54b; we added a twist to our usual dive. It didn't go as we wanted it to, but at least we did it, we broke the ice and now we are ready to do it better." 

 

Her partner took responsibility for the difficulty she encountered with the new dive: 

 

"I think today we just wanted to try the new dive and see how it was going to go. its new and with competition there is always more stress, and now we are ready to do it again. In competition I opened a little early in my twist and went back in, it was a little bit confusing for me and I was a little shocked so I had to do it again and to make sure that I was OK" said Ware.

Abel praised the gold medallists; "The Chinese are really good competitors, they don't make a lot of mistakes, so that's what we will have to do.  If we can just do our best and aim to beat our personal score, we will be happy."

In the women’s 10m synchro , two 16 year old divers, SI Yajie and LIAN Jie from China claimed a gold medal, erasing the bitter taste of last year’s defeat by Canadian's Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion.  The Chinese victory, exactly like their male compatriots an hour earlier this evening, was but a narrow margin of only 1.98 points ahead of the team from Great Britain. The

SI Yaje gave an honest critiques about their performance, "The first two dives were not very good but the rest were strong.  Next time we will do better.  We need to improve our synchronization and also our personal skills." 

Her partner LIAN Jie reflected on the event, "The whole performances was good, but we knew it was a very close competition.  We thought we dove well, but we know that we need to practice more and also work harder."

Photo credit: Vaughn Ridley

The silver medal went to the jubilant duo of Sarah Barrow and Tonia Couch of Great Britain.  They notched top scores in their third and fifth dives and tied the Canadians for high score in their second dive. The Brits scored 325.92 points, finishing less than two points behind the gold medallists from China.
 
Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion were surely aware of the eager expectations from the home crowd. They didn't hide their disappointment with a bronze medal. The local heroes were celebrating their 10th anniversary as a diving duo; both knew this would not be an evening for celebration.  The Canadians wrote history last year by securing a victory here in Windsor.  They became the first ever pair to beat Chinese opponents in 35 contests.  In 2015 the Canadians claimed a medal in eight straight competitions in this event at World Series (G1-S3-B4), before finishing fourth in London earlier this month.
 
Recalling the evening's competition, Roseline Filion said, "I don't look at the score board so I had no idea where we were.  I was just trying to focus on the divers that i had to do.  For sure its disappointing to see that we were so close at the end, but we unfortunately missed our last dive.  I think a little rest tomorrow is much needed, just to regroup and refocus so we will be ready for our individual competition on Sunday, that's for sure." 

In the men’s 10m synchro, China's Lin Yue and Yang Jian scored 433.50 points for the gold, preserving their winning streak. Their lead over the American team was a mere 1.98 points in this evening's competition. China's
The Chinese athletes were low key about their victory. Yang Jian said "It was nice, but we didn't expect it to be this close.  We made mistakes on all of our dives."
His partner Lin Yue insisted, "We can do better in our synchronization."
 
David Boudia and Steele Johnson of the USA took the silver medal scoring 431.52 points in a very close result.  The Americans were in the lead with two rounds to go after scoring 90.78 points in the fourth-round.  The pair had the highest scores in their 4th and final dives, and were ahead of China after the 4th round.  They faltered in their 5th dive and finished just out of reach of the gold medal. 
 
Boudia wasn't all that surprised or disappointed, "I think for our second international competition, it’s definitely where we want to be before Rio.  We know that we have a lot more in the tank.  We were close to China, and they didn't dive their best either.  We know we can be completive.  This event is wide open on any given day.  We missed one of our dives, fairly badly.  It comes with confidence and more training in the pool."

Boudia's new partner Steele Johnson reflected on the silver medal; "It's definitely cool, last year in my first World Cup I got a bronze and now in my first World Series we earn a silver medal.  We have things we can work on and improve on, but all in all I'm really happy with how we dove and happy with how we performed."
 
Germany's Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein landed the bronze medal with 430.92 points.

The penultimate meet of the FINA/NVC Diving World Series continues today (Saturday May 23).