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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...

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...

WINDSOR, Canada, June 2. CHINA took home seven of the eight titles on offer at the penultimate leg of the FINA/NVC Diving World Series, held for the first time in Windsor (CAN) on May 30 – June 1. Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion, 2013 World silver medallists, pocketed their first World Series t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Divers from Canada and Russia collected one and two gold medals respectively this weekend in Kazan, Russia, the host city of the FINA/CNSG Diving World Series 2018 very last leg, while all other gold up for grabs were pocketed by Team China. Russia's Aleksandr Bondar and Viktor Minibaev clinched gol...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 16. BEIJING’s ‘Water Cube’ provided the backdrop to brilliant performances during the opening leg of the FINA/NVC Diving World Series 2014, held from March 14-16. The superb venue was host to a Diving World Series meet for the fourth time and welcomed the best divers in ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. China added two golds to their collection in today's diving events. The day four final events started with women's synchronized three-meter. The winning team from China, made up of Shi Tingmao and Wang Han, put on a show for the judges and the world. The ...

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...

Canada and Malaysia broke China's dominance this weekend in Montreal, Canada, the host of the penultimate leg of the FINA/CNSG Diving World Series 2018 held from  April 27-29. The home team pocketed gold in the 3m and 10m mixed events. Jennifer Abel and Francois Imbeau-Dulac secured the 3m gold with...

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...

Today's diving events in Budapest included women's synchronized three meter and men's synchronized ten meter. On the women's side, Shi Tingmao and Chang Yani from China took gold. After finishing preliminaries in the top spot, the women held onto their gold medal standing through every round of comp...