"I am very happy to have two medals today and a silver medal from yesterday.  It's due to a great deal of work and many hours of training." said Rommel Pacheco.  This pair took part in all four prior meets in this event, starting off with a bronze in a three-team field in Beijing, before coming in fourth in Dubai, Kazan and London. Dolores Hernandez said "I am so happy because we train so much."
 
The bronze medal went to a pair making their debut in this event tonight.  Five-time World Series gold medal winner Thomas Daley and three-time World Series medallist Alicia Blagg of Great Britain decided to "gave it a whirl" competing in mixed diving for the first time. Daley was in the winning mood after his gold medal in individual platform in London earlier this month. Great Britain keep their 100% medal record in mixed events intact; three competitions yielded three medals (S1-B2). 

Daley cheerfully announced,
"We are absolutely over the moon with our performance today.  It was the first time ever doing it. The first time we trained mixed synchro together was today.  Blagg said "I'm really happy although I messed up my reverse.  There are plenty of improvements to make and there's a lot of work to do before we dive again."
 
Daley took a moment to praise teammate Jack Laugher for the gold medal he won earlier tonight, "Jack did amazingly well. He's looking in great shape and has great form too."
 
In the 3m springboard women, He Zi of China won today's event scoring 378.90 points and collects her 20th gold medal in individual springboard. She is the first woman to win 20 gold medals in a single individual event. Yesterday, she became the third in any gender with 20 plus gold medals in synchro events.
 
He Zi analyzed her performance, "I dove well because there was a fire in my heart and that gave me my determination to succeed."
 
Teammate Wang Han earns a silver medal for China finishing 15.30 points behind the podium topper. This is her sixth in this event at World Series. A year ago in Windsor, the silver medal was also hers in this event, behind teammate Shi Tingmao.
 
Wang Han explained, "We were driven by the passion of the audience, it gave us courage."
 
The bronze medal went to Canada's Jennifer Abel who finished 4 points away from the silver medal.  This is Abel's seventh total medal in women's events this season (S3-B4). This equals her personal best for a full season, set in 2011 (S4-B3).
 
Jennifer Abel reflected on today's performance, "I'm fantastic  I'm really tired but I'm good. I think today was more about experience than energy.  Of course the support of the home crowd helped. My week was really hard and my practices here weren't that good.  Tonight I focused on my technique.  I knew I would be able to hit my dives and I did that tonight in finals.  Of course there are always things to work on but my dives really are improving.  I think i need to be more aggressive for the entry and have cleaner entries. The more I compete the stronger I get, and the closer I am able to get to the Chinese."
 
In the 3m springboard men, 2012 Olympian Jack Laugher of Great Britain won the gold medal in this event denying the Chinese a victory yet again. This is the fourth successive meet without a Chinese gold medal in this event, establishing the longest "dry spell" for China in any event in World Series history.  Laugher has now claimed a medal in six of the last eight individual springboard events (G3-S1-B2), after earning none is his first 11 appearances in this event.


Jack Laugher (GBR), winner in the 3m springboard in Windsor. Photo credit: Diving Plongeon Canada

Laugher's score of 526.30 points was enough to beat two Chinese divers;   He Chao was 4.65 points back while his brother He Chong, the Windsor in 2014 event winner was 28.25 points behind and finished off the podium.

Proud of his medal Laugher said
"Its a great pleasure to hear my own national anthem.  It's something that i didn't think would happen for quite a while, I'm only 20 years old, but it took a great performance and a great achievement to beat these guys."

Laugher is thrilled with his success in 2015 and credits "A long, long season of hard work and I have moved to full time training.  We have changed my list up and I have added a new dive, a 2 1/2 summersault with three twists.  We have put a lot of effort into my weights program and its starting to pay off now."
 
  China's He Chao collected the silver medal. For the first time in World Series history, China failed to win a gold medal in a single individual event in four consecutive meets at World Series. 

According to He, "I dove as well as I could have expected. I was a little disappointed with my final dive.  The final round was not as good as expected, so if I improve perhaps that will make a difference where I stand on the podium."
 
In an extremely tight contest Mexico's Rommel Pacheco edged China's He Chong by 0.05 points for the bronze medal.  This is Pacheco's first ever individual springboard podium at the World Series. He owns three individual bronze medals collected from 2008 to 2011, but each came in platform diving. Today was his first final in 2015, after crashing out in the semi finals in Dubai, Kazan and London.