Chinese divers lift 3 springboard titles
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| Chen Aisen and He Zi (Bottom) of China compete during Mixed 3m Synchro Springboard final on day 2 of FINA/NVC Diving World Series 2015 at National Aquatics Center as known as the Water Cube in Beijing, March 14, 2015. Chen Aisen and He Zi claimed the title with 330.00 points. [Wang Lili/Xinhua] |
He Zi/Chen Aisen won the newly-added mixed 3m synchro springboard titles by stable dives while Jennifer Abel/Francois Imbeau-Dulac of Canada showed their highest difficult 5154B with 3.4 degree of difficulty and placed second in 319.71. Dolores Hernandez/Rommel Pacheco of Mexico came to third in 293.10.
He Zi revealed she trained mixed synchro with Chen for about one month. "This event requires men diver reduce height and difficulties to work with women. It is not easy," He said.
Pacheco explained why he did not pair with Mexico's Diving Princess Paola Espinosa.
"Paola dives a lot on the platform and I jump on the springboard. Our synchronization of height and speed are totally different. It is a new event that we need to work more on it," Pecheco said.
Cornel Marculescu, FINA Executive Director, believes the mixed synchro events will attract more people and television.
"FINA want to modernize our aquatic sports. We have done the mixed races in swimming - mixed relay. In synchronizing swimming, we have mixed duet, and diving we have mixed synchro divers. I think it will benefit athletes. women and men compete together in other sports, why not us? It will be very interesting to see how we attract more people and television by adding the mixed events," Marculescu said.
The three-day World Series will come to an end on Sunday after men's and women's 10m platform and mixed synchro platform.
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