{"id":258458,"date":"2017-06-01T04:52:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=258458"},"modified":"2017-06-01T04:54:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:54:40","slug":"diving-australia-names-10-to-world-championships-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/diving-australia-names-10-to-world-championships-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Wu Leads Diving Australia’s 10-Athlete World Championships Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Led by Olympic silver medalist Melissa Wu<\/strong>, a mixed team of veterans and rookies will represent Australia at the 2017 FINA Diving World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The diving portion of competition will take place between July 14 and July 22.<\/p>\n

After qualifying for her first World Championships in 2007 at the age of 14, Wu earned her first international medal by taking the silver in the 10-meter synchro competition. She then won\u00a0silver at 2008 Rio Olympic Games in the same event. Her efforts also earned her silver\u00a0at the 2011 World Championships and bronze at the 2015 games.<\/p>\n

She finished a disappointing fifth in Rio, but after recovering from injury, is diving better now than she did in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad to be coming back from injury,\u2019\u2019 Wu told The Australian<\/em><\/a>. \u201cMy back got to the point where it was really bad and we scanned it and I had stress fractures on one side and a stress reaction on the other so I had to rest it so it didn\u2019t crack all the way through. I missed the early World \u00adSeries events this year and then went to the second World Series and my back was feeling better so I decided to enter the last individual event and that went pretty well.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

At this stop in Canada, Wu split the Olympic Champion and silver medalists on 10-meter.\u00a0Si Yajie<\/strong>, who took silver in Rio won with 390.60 points, while Olympic champion Ren Qian<\/strong> claimed third. Wu was second with 384.00. Between her efforts in Canada and the recent Australian Open, Wu has expressed her confidence in her diving.<\/p>\n

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World Championships Trials are done! Happy with my results and excited to have been named on the Australian Team for 3 events at World Championships in Budapest. Big thank you to my sponsor @funkitaswimwear for your ongoing support and my super funky training gear. And to my coach @chava_sobrino and all of the @nswinstituteofsport coaches and support staff who have worked tirelessly this year to keep this old body moving. Thanks also to @coachady88 for giving me a fresh outlook on training and competing this year. Team Australia is looking strong and I’m looking forward to a great trip with awesome teammates! @divingaus #divingfamily #team #Australia #athlete #worldchampionships #budapest #funkita #lovefunkita #diving #diver<\/a><\/p>\n

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