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China Wraps up World Championships 13-for-13 in Diving Medals China swept the last three diving medals at the 2022 FINA World Championships over the final two days of competition, completing a perfect 13-for-13 run for the diving superpower. Two of those came via the women’s program. On Saturday, Ch...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here 2020 Tokyo Olympic Diving Preview: Count On China By Dan D'Addona Based on the results of the last eight Olympics—and the most recent World Champion...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Diving Contributor.  Team USA brought 16 divers to the the 2018 FINA Diving World Cup in Wuhan China, which concluded Sunday. From June 5 to 10, divers competed in 11 events including men's and women's platform, springboard, and synchro. Despite a promising squad, whi...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. Only one finals event took place on day five of the FINA World Championships: the mixed three-meter and ten-meter. The Chinese team, made up of Lin Shan and Yang Jian won by 26.6 points. The team competed a back dive pike (201B), a reverse two-and-a-half ...

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...

The 2016 FINA Diving World Series will only feature four stops on the tour as athletes get ready for the Rio Olympics. Normally, the series runs through the entire spring season, but will stop a month early next year. The locations will take divers all over the world. The first stop will be in Beiji...

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...

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...

DUBAI - David Boudia (Noblesville, Ind./West Lafayette, Ind.) placed fifth in the men’s 10-meter final Saturday at the FINA/NVC Diving World Series in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Boudia scored 529.25 points in the final, highlighted by 102.60 points on his back 3 ½ pike. He earned 91.80 points on b...

2018 Athletes of the Year Each January, Swimming World celebrates the accomplishments of the non-swimming aquatic sports by naming the Athletes of the Year. The sports of diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, and paralympic swimming each accomplished great feats in 2018. While most of the athle...

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...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 28. CHINESE divers exhibited their prowess during the third leg of the FINA/NVC Diving World Series at the London Aquatics Centre on April 25-27, pocketing all eight titles at stake. In the men’s individual events, reigning World champion He Chong claimed the 3m springbo...