FINA Diving Grand Prix Continues in Germany

ROSTOCK, Germany, June 9. GERMANY's diving hopefuls did well at home during the International Diving Day competition held in Rostock (GER) from June 6-8. The event was the sixth leg of this year's 14th FINA Diving Grand Prix series. Although the Chinese diving delegation was most successful, with a haul of nine medals (including five gold), the Germans earned seven awards, of which three were gold. The Australian team also performed well to win five medals (three silver and two bronze).

As detailed below, multiple medals went to Zhang Xin Hua (CHN), and home-hero Sascha Klein, who continues to reign supreme off the platform in advance of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, while dominant female divers included platform-ace Wang Hao (CHN) and Australian divers Melissa Wu and Sharleen Stratton. The women's 3m springboard synchro event was a particularly nice result for Germany, whose pairs took two medals.

The seventh and last event of the 2008 Grand Prix will be held in Rome (ITA) from June 13-15.

Results in Rostock:
MEN
3m springboard: 1. Zhang Xin Hua (CHN) 514.80; 2. Aleksandr Dobroskok (RUS) 491.70; 3. Pavlo Rozenberg (GER) 490.65
10m platform: 1. Sascha Klein (GER) 535.80; 2. Matthew Mitcham (AUS) 516.90; 3. Ying Hong (CHN) 511.35
3m springboard synchro: 1. Luo Yu Tong/Zhang Xin Hua (CHN) 432.27; 2. Sascha Klein/Pavlo Rozenberg (GER) 405.09; 3. Robert Newbery/Scott Robertson (AUS) 402.06
10m platform synchro: 1. Sascha Klein/Patrick Hausding (GER) 476.64; 2. Dmitry Dobroskok/Gleb Galperin (RUS) 464.94; 3. Ying Hong/Zhang Chen (CHN) 437.55

WOMEN
3m springboard: 1. He Zi (CHN) 362.45; 2. Wang Han (CHN) 317.00; 3. Sharleen Stratton (AUS) 313.90
10m platform: 1. Wang Hao (CHN) 448.50; 2. Melissa Wu (AUS) 381.60; 3. Cao Jing Zhen (CHN) 379.25
3m springboard synchro: 1. Heike Fischer/Ditte Kotzian (GER) 319.89; 2. Briony Cole/Sharleen Stratton (AUS) 317.40; 3. Katja Dieckow/Nora Subschinski (GER) 300.60
10m platform synchro: 1. Wang Hao/Kang Li (CHN) 351.48; 2. Meaghan Benfeito/Roseline Filion (CAN) 324.54; 3. Annett Gamm/Nora Subschinski (GER) 320.16

Special thanks to FINA for contributing this report.

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