Osmar Olvera Ibarra Gives Mexico Its 2nd Diving Gold Medal In World Championship History – News18

DOHA, Qatar: Osmar Olvera Ibarra gave Mexico its second diving gold medal within the historical past of the World Aquatics Championships, profitable the lads’s 1-meter springboard on Saturday.

Olvera turned the primary diver from a rustic aside from China to say the highest spot within the occasion since Alexandre Despatie of Canada in 2005.

Paolo Espinosa is the one different Mexican diving world champion, capturing gold on the ten-meter platform at Rome in 2009.

The 19-12 months-previous Olvera was a silver medalist on each 1- and three-meter springboard ultimately summer time’s world championships in Fukuoka, Japan. Now, he’s obtained some gold-medal momentum with the Paris Olympics simply 5 months away.

Olvera led the morning preliminaries and cruised by way of the ultimate, posting a rating of 431.75 factors over six dives. The silver went to Li Shixin of Australia at 395.70, whereas Ross Haslam of Britain took the bronze in 393.10.

China, which has dominated diving at each the Olympics and world championships, claimed its first gold in Doha when 13-12 months-previous Huang Jianjie and Zhang Jiaqi received the combined 10-meter synchronized platform.

With its focus firmly on Paris, China despatched a scaled-again staff to Doha, giving different nations an opportunity to shine. The diving superpower didn’t enter the primary two occasions Friday and is assured of its fewest gold medals at worlds since settling for eight in 2017.

Over the final three championships, China has claimed 37 of 39 gold medals.

Zheng Jiuyuan of China misplaced any likelihood of cracking the 1-meter medalists with a botched dive within the fifth spherical, almost touchdown on his knees. He completed eleventh out of 12 finalists.

Li’s silver-medal efficiency marked one other outstanding flip for the 35-12 months-previous diver, who captured 1-meter gold for his native China at each the 2011 and 2013 worlds earlier than shifting to Australia.

In the combined occasion, Huang and 19-12 months-previous Zhang romped to victory for China with 353.82 factors. Zhang added to the gold received at Fukuoka whereas paired with Wang Feilong.

Jo Jin Mi and Im Yong Myong of North Korea took the silver in 303.96, whereas the bronze went to Kevin Berlin Reyes and Alejandra Estudillo Torres of Mexico at 296.13.

In different finals on Day 2 of the primary world championships held within the Middle East, Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands pulled off an exhilarating victory within the ladies’s 10-kilometer race and Evangelia Platanioti of Greece took creative swimming gold in ladies’s solo technical.

Van Rouwendaal touched first in 1 hour, 57 minutes, 26.80 seconds — a mere tenth of a second forward of Maria de Valdes of Spain. The bronze went to Angelica Andre of Portugal, who was 1.4 seconds behind the winner.

On the final of six laps across the Old Doha Port, Moesha Johnson of Australia light from the result in fourth as van Rouwendaal confirmed off her ending kick within the ultimate 500 meters of the tough-and-tumble race.

The 30-12 months-previous van Rouwendaal regained the title she held on the 2022 world championships in Budapest, Hungary. She completed fourth final summer time in Fukuoka, the place Leonie Beck of Germany swept the 5k and 10k titles.

Beck completed twentieth at Doha, 45 seconds behind the winner.

Van Rouwendaal is a longtime star on the open water circuit. She received gold on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and grabbed a silver on the Tokyo Games three years in the past.

The 29-12 months-previous Platanioti paced the ultimate of solo technical with 272.9633 factors. Jacqueline Simoneau of Canada claimed the silver (269.2767) and Xu Huiyan of China settled for bronze (262.3700).

Many prime athletes are skipping Doha, which is internet hosting the worlds a 12 months not on time due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is the primary time the world championships have been held in the identical calendar 12 months because the Summer Games.

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