{"id":218885,"date":"2016-08-18T16:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=218885"},"modified":"2016-08-18T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T23:15:21","slug":"chinese-dominance-continues-in-womens-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/chinese-dominance-continues-in-womens-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Dominance Continues In Women&#8217;s Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Ren Qian<\/strong> is coming home from her first Olympics with a gold medal. A medal she won with a dominating performance, finishing twenty points ahead of her teammate\u00a0<strong>Si Yajie<\/strong>, who captured silver.\u00a0<strong>Meaghan\u00a0<\/strong><b>Benfeito<\/b>\u00a0of Canada won the bronze. This is Benfeito&#8217;s second bronze of the Rio games. 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