Who is the diving world champion

The Chengdu resident ranked first from the opening dive on, and capped the session off with the highest-scoring dive in the field, receiving Cao, 26, won his fourth career Olympic medal earlier in the competition in the 10m synchronized platform event, taking silver with partner Chen Aisen. Daley was the Olympic bronze medalist in this event, but fell to 18th in The Olympic diving competition will wrap up on Saturday, with the semi-final round scheduled for 10 am local time in Tokyo and the final at 3 pm.

He finished up his collegiate swimming career in , graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics. In he completed his graduate degree in sports journalism. Prior to going to Laurentian, James swam …. More from James Sutherland See All. Notify of. Latest cliff diving. Hunt and Iffland edge closer to title glory on Puglia … The reigning cliff diving champions lead the way …. Who'll win cliff diving's coveted King Kahekili … Three men and three women are still in the fight ….

I can breathe easily now going into the last event of the season. My approach coming into these two events was to kind of separate them and just play the game the way I usually do. Champion Rhiannan Iffland leaps to victory in Puglia. Joining Iffland and Macaulay on the podium in third place was another Canadian, wildcard Molly Carlson , who continued her impressive debut season with another accomplished performance from the 21m platform.

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Gary Hunt made it three wins in a row to grab his ninth title. Hunt was joined on the podium by his closest rivals this season, Romanians Constantin Popovici and Catalin Preda who finished in second and third place respectively from almost three times the Olympic platform height.

The titles may have been decided, but there is plenty still to play for as the fight for qualification to the World Series continues at the home of European cliff diving. Something about this place makes you want to fly. Keeping those limbs loose on the terrace.

Ellie Smart composes herself in the high winds. Jonathan Paredes and Orlando Duque enjoyed watching on.