All About Three Meter Today In Budapest

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Both the men and women competed on three meter springboard today. The woman dove in preliminaries and semifinals earlier this morning, while the day of competition wrapped up with men’s three meter finals.

For the women, Shi Tingmao and Wang Han from China are sitting in the top two positions, while Pamela Ware and Jennifer Abel from Canada are holding onto third and fourth. Standing in fifth place is Madison Keeney from Australia, who won gold on one meter earlier in the week.

All of the divers scores will be set back to zero headed into finals, but Shi notably finished almost 26 points ahead of her teammate Wang.

None of the American women made it past preliminaries.

In the men’s final, Xie Siyi from China is taking home a gold medal. Twenty points behind him, Patrick Hausding from Germany eared a silver medal. Then trailing Huasding by another twenty points, Ilia Zakharov from Russia took the bronze.

Although the final standings were not very close, the companion saw some surprises.

Jack Laugher from Britain bested his score from semifinals by 2 points. Still, after finishing semifinals in second place, Laugher jumped down to fifth in finals. Competitors really stepped it up in the final round.

Hausding finished semifinals standing in fifth place. He came back in finals extremely strong, scoring more than 54 points higher than he did in semifinals. This is his first individual medal at a World Championship.

The biggest surprise of the meet might be from Yuan Cao. The Chinese diver known for his consistency went into finals standing in first place, and held that position for the first three rounds of finals. In the fourth round, Cao missed his back three and a half tuck (207C), receiving as low as 4.5s from the judges. In the next round, Cao’s front triple twisting two and a half pike (5156B) scored even lower. He was able to come back in the final round, performing a front four and a half tuck (109C) for respectable 7s, but finished in 10th place overall.

Tomorrow, the women will finish three meter with finals, and the men will compete on platform.

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