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The Australian won the 20-meter final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-rhiannan-iffland-wins-womens-high-diving-american-maya-kelly-in-bronze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the World Aquatics World Championships in Singapore<\/a>. The victory earned her a fifth career world title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came into this event knowing I could be fighting for it, but it wasn&#8217;t my main goal,\u201d Iffland said after the competition. \u201cIt&#8217;s insane, I&#8217;m blown away. I&#8217;m kind of speechless right now. I never would have thought 10 years ago I would be holding my fifth medal.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/category\/diving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diving News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iffland led wire-to-wire in Singapore, her score of 359.25 points easily better than <strong>Simone Leathead<\/strong> of Canada (314.50) and bronze medalist American <strong>Maya Kelly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Newcastle, New South Wales, has won five world titles, the first in 2017. She lays claim to five of the seven titles ever given out in this discipline, which World Aquatics began sponsoring in 2013. She is also a seven-time Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series champion.<\/p>\n<p>Iffland added a win in the World Aquatics World Cup in Porto Flavia, Italy, scoring 356.05 to hold off American <strong>Kaylea Arnett<\/strong> by 31 points.<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein broke through for his first major title on 27-meter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-american-high-diver-james-lichtenstein-wins-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Singapore at the age of 30<\/a>. He did it in dramatic fashion, rallying past Spain\u2019s <strong>Carlos Gimeno<\/strong> on the final round to get the gold by a margin of 3.6 points. Lichtenstein had been fourth at the 2024 World Championships and seventh in his Worlds debut in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein was the first American man to win the world title since <strong>Steven LoBue<\/strong> in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Like Iffland, Lichtenstein won the World Cup title in Porto Flavio. 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