With the 20th edition of the FINA Diving World Cup coming to an end today (February 24) in Rio de Janeiro (BRA), some nations have already secured a spot in the Olympic Games next summer but the battle is still going fierce for more countries to qualify for the world\u2019s biggest sport event to take place in August.<\/p>\n
The Diving World Cup, which doubles up as a test and qualifying event for the 2016 Olympic Games, welcomed many stars from around the world and approximately 250 athletes from 50 countries over the six-day competition.<\/p>\n
Despite some challenging weather conditions most athletes were happy to be able to train in an open pool in Olympic-alike conditions.<\/p>\n
Among others, Jamaican rising star, Yona Knight-Wisdom<\/strong> surprised the audience by grabbing the silver medal in the men\u2019s 3m with 459.25 points. Knight-Wisdom became the first ever male Jamaican diver to qualify for an Olympic Games. Rommel Pacheco<\/strong> (competing under the FINA flag) secured the gold and the bronze medal was taken by the American Kristian Ipsen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In the women\u2019s operations, World silver medallist Ren Qian<\/strong> (CHN) won the 10m platform on her birthday (she turned 15) partly thanks to the perfect 10-points mark that was attributed to her last dive.<\/p>\n With regards to the synchronised events, the Chinese pair Chen Ruolin<\/strong> \/ Liu Huixia<\/strong> topped the 10m platform, while Malaysian and British pairs respectively ranked second and third. Germany\u2019s Stephan Feck<\/strong> and Patrick Hausding<\/strong> were the strongest in the 3m.<\/p>\n On Day 5, FINA Best female diver of 2015, China\u2019s Shi Tingmao<\/strong> (gold) and teammate He Zi<\/strong> (silver) dominated the women\u2019s 3m springboard. Canadian Jennifer Abel<\/strong> won the bronze medal with an amazing performance edging from her initial 12th and last place after the first round.<\/p>\n Results are provided by FINA partner OMEGA<\/p>\n The final day of competition (February 24) will host the men\u2019s 10m semi-final as well as the final.<\/p>\n FINA contributed this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the 20th edition of the FINA Diving World Cup coming to an end today (February 24) in Rio de Janeiro (BRA), some nations have already secured a spot in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":146548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n