The final competition day of the diving touranment has
come to an end at the FINA World Championships in Kazan. 26 gold medals were up for grabs
in the men's and women's individual and synchronised 3m springboard and 10m
platform events. Masters athletes aged 25-85 years old competed in the diving
tournament and executed from three to six dives.
Divers
started with platform events, then moved to the 3m springboard synchronised
dives with the 10m platform wrapping up the day. Today the audience witnessed
the triumph of two nations – Russia and Germany – that performed equally
strong today.
In the
women's synchronised 3m springboard, there were duets only from 2 countries –
Russia and Germany. If the tournament hosts competed in the 50-99 age group
(the total age of duets), the German divers executed four announced dives in
the +100 age group. The maturer duet earned lower points (from 4 to 9) while
Evgeniia Makarova and Marina Romanova's points were not lower than 6 and
totalled 165.51. In terms of the degree of difficulty (DD), their third dive
was inferior to the one shown by their opponents from SV Gelnhausen but the
girls, whose total age is only 56 years old, managed to beat the
rivalling duet. The second duet, whose total age amounted to 115 years old, picked
up 145.56 points.
Greece,
Italy and Korea ended up as top finishers in the men's synchro dives. The Greek
divers from Fyrigou Culture & Sports Academy demonstrated incredible
stunts: they had announced dives with the highest degree of difficulty,
skillfully performed all acrobatic elements and earned high points from the
judges (including two tens), which put them 70 points ahead of their nearest
rival. But their high results were hardly surprising as one of Greek divers,
Evangelos Tzivopoulos, is the leading diving coach in his country while Iraklis
Sakkalis is his long-time teammmate. Together, they have been successfully
performing at national championships and traditionally represented the national
team on the international level. Korean representatives managed to pull
themselves together in the second half of the diving event but unfortunately
had no strength to catch up with the silver medallists. All three duets
performed in the 50-59 age group. All of them were equally strong, that's why
the clash between all of them turned out to be really fierce. Together with his
teammate from the Dresdener SC 1898 Club, Alexander Gorski demonstrated a
powerful technique and eventually placed second finishing less than 15 points
behind the Greek team.
A real
thriller unfolded in the 10m platform event. The athletes tried to support each
other as best as they could: they cheered for each other or took pictures or
videos of their colleagues' dives. By the way, Russian diver Pavel Poliakov, a
coach from St. Petersburg, set up a camera on the deck so that his family could
watch his dives via Skype. He already earned three medals in the 35-39 age
group at the current Championships and his dives were really worth seeing.
Today's final became the only one where he didn't have any opponents in his age
group but he did't lower a bar, on the contrary, he announced dives with high
DDs and collected a total of 291.85 points.
The
breakthrough of the Masters tournament in Kazan – 29-year-old Eliza Cole from
Arrows Diving Academy – showed the best result today, collecting 331.40.
The Australian diver, who works as a doctor, took a leave from her job
especially for the Championships. By the way, she's grown up together with
Maddison Keeney, a participant of the FINA World Championships, who a couple of
weeks ago had marvelled the audience and judges with her acrobatic skills. Cole
earned 3 gold medals finishing well ahead of all her rivals in the 25-29
age group.
1.Germany
– 4 golds and 1 silver
2. Russia – 3 golds and 1 bronze
3. USA – 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze
2. Russia – 3 golds and 1 bronze
3. USA – 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze
1.Russia
– 3 golds and 1 silver
2.Great Britain – 1 gold and 1 silver
3.Germany – 1 gold and 1 bronze
2.Great Britain – 1 gold and 1 silver
3.Germany – 1 gold and 1 bronze
1.Russia
– 1 gold
1.Germany – 1 gold
1.Germany – 1 gold
1.
Greece – 1 gold
2. Italy – 1 silver
3. Korea – 1 bronze
2. Italy – 1 silver
3. Korea – 1 bronze
1. Greece
– 1 gold
2. Germany – 1 silver
3. Italy – 1 bronze
2. Germany – 1 silver
3. Italy – 1 bronze
1.
Germany – 1 gold
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