China Dominates Again During Rome Stop of FINA Diving Grand Prix

ROME, Italy, June 16. CHINESE athletes largely dominated the seventh and last meet of the 2008 FINA Diving Grand Prix, held in Rome (ITA) from June 13-15, by obtaining all the eight gold medals at stake.

Confirming their supremacy in the 2008 season, and a couple of months before the Olympic Games, at home in Beijing, China's divers even got a one-two in three out of four individual events. Tania Cagnotto, the local star, was the only non-Chinese individual silver medalist in the women's 3m springboard.

Besides Italy and China, the other nations with a podium presence in Rome included Spain, Romania, Ukraine, Colombia, Sweden, Australia and Great Britain.

The 2008 FINA Diving Grand Prix comprised seven legs in: Madrid (ESP, January 18-20), Shenzhen (CHN, February 29-March 2), Moscow (RUS, April 10-13), Montreal (CAN, May 1-4), Fort Lauderdale (USA, May 8-11), Rostock (GER, June 6-8) and Rome (ITA, June 13-15).

Results
Men
3m springboard: 1. Zhang Xin Hua (CHN) 520.10; 2. Li Shixin (CHN) 459.75; 3. Javier Illana (ESP) 448.70
10m platform: 1.Ying Hong (CHN) 520.15; 2. Liguang Yang (CHN) 519.60; 3. Constantin Popovici (ROU) 429.20
3m springboard synchro: 1. Luo Yu Tong/Zhang Xin Hua (CHN) 435.57; 2. Tommaso Marconi/Nicola Marconi (ITA) 401.88; 3. Yuri Shlyakhov/Oleksiy Prygorov (UKR) 390.09
10m platform synchro: 1. Ying Hong/Zhang Chen (CHN) 460.41; 2. Juan Uran/Victor Ortega (COL) 418.83; 3. Constantin Popovici/Catalin Preda (ROU) 382.50

Women
3m springboard: 1. He Zi (CHN) 378.80; 2. Tania Cagnotto (ITA) 331.20; 3. Anna Lindberg (SWE) 328.25
10m platform: 1. Wang Hao (CHN) 417.70; 2. Cao Jing Zhen (CHN) 364.85; 3. Yulia Prokopchuk (UKR) 336.30
3m springboard synchro: 1. Wang Han/Qinxin Zhao (CHN) 318.00; 2. Noemi Batki/Francesca Dallape (ITA) 302.10; 3. Anna Pysmenskaya/Mariya Voloshchenko (UKR) 291.60
10m platform synchro: 1. Wang Hao/Kang Li (CHN) 350.94; 2. Olivia Wright/Natasha Cocker (AUS) 300.42; 3. Helen Galashan/Carol Galashan (GBR) 284.64

Special thanks to FINA for contributing this report.

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