The men’s one meter finals occurred today, after preliminaries took place two days ago. The men’s event was followed by finals in women’s synchronized platform.<\/p>\n
In the men’s one meter event, China took the top two spots. Peng Jianfeng<\/strong>\u00a0finished just 1.2 points ahead of teammate\u00a0He Chao.<\/strong><\/p>\n The top six men finished with the same standings in finals as they did in preliminaries. The bronze medal is headed home with Giovanni Tocci<\/strong> from Italy, followed by Patrick Hausding<\/strong> of Germany,\u00a0Mike Hixon<\/strong> from the United States, an Oleg Kolodiy<\/strong> from Ukraine.<\/p>\n American Steele Johnson<\/strong>, who was the last to qualify for the final after wrapping up\u00a0preliminaries in the twelfth spot,\u00a0moved up to secure a seventh place finish.<\/p>\n The highest scoring dive of the competition was Peng’s inward two and a half pike (405B), which he scores 86.7 points on. His back two and a half tuck (203C) followed close behind, receiving 9s from the judges and earning Peng 81 points.<\/p>\n In the women’s synchronized ten meter, the Chinese team finished on top again. Ren Qian<\/strong> collected her second gold in Budapest so far\u00a0with partner Si Yajje<\/strong>. The duo finished 16 points ahead of Rae Kim Mi<\/strong> and Kuk Hyang Kim\u00a0<\/strong>from the People’s Republic of Korea, and the Bronze medal was awarded to Panelela Pamg<\/strong> and Panelela Pamg<\/strong>, the team from Malaysia.<\/p>\n The three leading teams maintained their standings for the last three rounds of the event.<\/p>\n The Chinese women secured their gold with their final two dives, an inward three and a half tuck (407C) and a back two and a half with one and a half twists pike (5253B). They received 9s on both dives, which earned them 85.44 and 83.52 points.<\/p>\n Tomorrow’s events include men’s synchronized ten meter, and women’s synchronized three meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The men’s one meter finals occurred today, after preliminaries took place two days ago. The men’s event was followed by finals in women’s synchronized platform. In the men’s one meter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3481,"featured_media":216520,"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":[1],"tags":[59716,57595,52480,53398,62553,31240,62545,62554,30415,62524,62540,62538,62552,40852],"class_list":["post-266268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2017-fina-world-championships","tag-erin-keaveny","tag-giovanni-tocci","tag-he-chao","tag-kuk-hyang-kim","tag-mike-hixon","tag-oleg-kolodiy","tag-panelela-pamg","tag-patrick-hausding","tag-peng-jianfeng","tag-rae-kim-mi","tag-ren-qian","tag-si-yajje","tag-steele-johnson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n