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Two-Time Olympic Medal-Winning Diver Jennifer Abel Announces Retirement Olympic diver Jennifer Abel, who won medals at the 2012 and 2021 Olympics, announced her retirement this week. Abel made the announcement on Instagram on Tuesday. A day later, she and her fiancé, professional boxer David Lemieux...

Swimming & Para Swimming Among 10 Sports At 2026 Commonwealth Games: Diving Misses Out Swimming and para swimming have been confirmed among 10 sports to be contested at the 2026 Commonwealth Games although diving will not be on the scaled-down programme in Glasgow. The programme also includes athlet...

The penultimate leg of the 2019 FINA Diving World Series concluded on Sunday May 12 in Kazan, Russia, as Great Britain's Jack Laugher and China's Yang Hao topped the men's individual events and Canada's Jennifer Abel and DPR Korea's Kim Mi Rae triumphed in the women's springboard and platform events...

The team of China got the best possible outcome in the second leg of the FINA/NVC Diving World Series 2017 taking place in Guangzhou (CHN) from March 9-11, by getting 10 titles out of the 10 gold medals on offer. Following the success in the inaugural event in Beijing, with nine victories, Chinese d...

Today's diving events concluded Olympic diving at worlds. Finals occurred in both mixed synchronized three meter and men's individual platform. In mixed synchro, China's team won the gold medal. Li Zheng and Wang Han finished almost 16 points ahead of the silver medal team from Great Britain, made u...

Coverage of the 2015 Pan American Games is sponsored by Triton Wear. Visit Swimming World’s event landing page for results and more! The second day of diving at the 2015 Pan American Games featured Canada's Jennifer Abel (women's 3M) and Mexico's Ivan Garcia (men's 10M) taking home golds. Abel turne...

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...

As one of Canada’s top summer Olympic athletes, Penny Oleksiak’s likeness was already set for cereal boxes this summer. But with the Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021 thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, Oleksiak is among the Canadian athletes using her profile to help frontline workers in food ban...

The second stop of the FINA Diving World Series 2015 was held in Dubai (UAE) on March 19-21. British Jack Laugher prevented a Chinese sweep by taking the gold in the men’s 3m springboard. Other nations with medals in Dubai were Canada, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine. In the men’s 3m s...

ROSTOCK - Canada’s Meaghan Benfeito, 2012 Olympic bronze medallist, and current 10m synchro World champion Sascha Klein of Germany took the gold in both platform events, individual and synchro, in Rostock (GER), the first meet of the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2015 held on February 20-22. Belarus, China...

SHANGHAI, China, July 21. CHINESE young prospect Huang Xiaohui claimed her first individual title at world level in the women's 10m platform, besting team-mate Liu Huixia, at the 19th FINA Diving World Cup in Shanghai on July 18. Huang, winner of the mixed team event with Chen Aisen on Day 1 of the ...

After four incredibly competitive legs in Beijing (CHN), Fuji (JPN), Montreal (CAN) and Kazan (RUS), Team China continues to shine and dominate the discipline as Chinese stars Cao Yuan, Yang Jian, Shi Tingmao and Ren Qian all reign on their respective individual events. Cao Yuan, 23, finishes atop o...

Today's events in Budapest included the preliminary and semifinal rounds in men's individual platform, and finals for the women on three meter. After semifinals this morning, Aleksandr Bondar from Russia is holding onto first place. He is followed by fan favorite Tom Daly from Great Britain, the Chi...

MONTERREY, Mexico, June 9. FIRST-time host Monterrey (MEX), the last of six meets, successfully concluded the FINA/NVC Diving World Series 2014 with once again a top-notch three-day competition, held from June 6-8 and featuring the best divers in action. China walked away with six victories, Germany...

Aquatics Canada Aquatiques Names Brent Hayden, Maggie MacNeil Athletes of the Year Aquatics Canada Aquatiques on Thursday released its annual ACA Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in Canadian aquatics. The two top awards, for male and female athlete of the year, went to Olympic swimmers Br...

Shi Tingmao, with Wang Han, Repeats as Women’s 3-Meter Synchro Champ Five years ago, Shi Tingmao won gold at the Rio Olympics alongside Wu Minxia. In Tokyo, Shi’s partner is different, but the result is the same. Shi and Wang Han dominated the women’s synchronized three-meter springboard final Sunda...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. Read the five biggest stories of the week in The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. This week was highlighted by Ilya Shymanovich taking down a world record, Ryan Murphy setting an ISL and US record, ISL playoff matches, and two retirement announcements. We...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. Today, on the eighth and final day of springboard and platform diving, mixed three-meter synchro and men's ten-meter platform concluded the diving competition at the 2019 FINA World Championships. Mixed synchro, a non-Olympic event where teams are made up...

GATINEAU - Canada's mixed pairs Francois Imbeau-Dulac / Jennifer Abel and Meaghan Benfeito / Vincent Riendeau took gold respectively in 3m and 10m mixed events this weekend in Gatineau (CAN) where the third leg of the FINA Diving Grand Prix took place from April 9-12. Canada also won the gold medal ...

Eighty-five of the world's best divers have arrived in Montreal for the third leg of a total FINA/CNSG Diving World Series events. Prior editions in Sagamihrara, Japan (87 divers) and Beijing, China (67) tested the athletes who have arrived in Canada earlier this week to compete head to head to win ...