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| July 14, 2003 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 13, 1424 |
Russians brush aside Chinese
BARCELONA (Spain), July 13: Russian pair Dmitry Sautin and Alexander Dobroskok beat their Chinese opponents to win the men’s 3m synchronised springboard diving gold here at the world swimming championships on Sunday.
The Russian duo, who had lead the morning’s preliminaries, scored a combined 369.18 points after five jumps to push Chinese favourites Wang Tianling and Wang Feng into silver position with 343.29.
Germany’s Andreas Wels and Tobias Schellenberg took bronze with 334.44.
The Russians scored a string of maximum ten points during the finals to largely dominate the Chinese, who achieved one, and showed the effects of having missed vital competition because of the outbreak of the SARS virus.
Competing in his fifth world championships, the 29-year-old Sautin has fought his way back from a series of career-threatening injuries, most recently surgery on a recurring left knee injury.
Sautin, the 1996 Olympic platform champion, will be defending his 3m springboard title here, and said that he would also be trying to return to platform early next year after dropping out because of his injuries.
Leading results:
Men’s 5km open water:
Final: 1. Yevgeny Kochkarov (RUS) 53min 11.9sec; 2. Christian Hein (GER) 53:13.9; 3. Vladimir Diattchine (RUS) 53:14.8; 4. Marco Formentini (ITA) 53:15.5; 5. Josh Santacaterina (AUS) 53:17.5; 6. Stefano Rubaudo (ITA) 53:17.8; 7. Emmanuel Poisser (FRA) 53:18.2; 8. Alan Bircher (GBR) 53:25.0; 9. Grant Cleland (AUS) 53:26.5; 10. Damian Blaum (ARG) 53:29.6.
Women’s 5km open water:
Final: 1. Viola Valli (ITA) 57min 01.2sec; 2. Jana Pechanova (CZE) 57:03.9; 3. Britta Kamrau (GER) 57:06.4; 4. Ekatarina Seliverstova (RUS) 57:07.3; 5. Paula Wood (GBR) 57:07.8; 6. Yurema Requena (SPA) 57:08.2; 7. Stefanie Biller (GER) 57:08.6; 8. Edith Van Dijk (NED) 57:09.2; 9 equal. Melissa Pasquali (ITA) 57:20.4, 9 equal. Xenia Lopez (SPA) 57:20.4.
Diving:
Women:
10m synchronised platform final: 1. Lao Lishi/Li Ting (CHN) 344.58 pts; 2. Loudy Tourky/Lynda Dackiw (AUS) 323.34; 3. Yevgenya Olshevskaya/Svetlana Timoshinina (RUS) 300.12; 4 equal. Laura Wilkinson/ Brittany Viola (USA) 281.04, 4 equal. Dolores Saez de Ibarra/Leire Santos (SPA) 281.04; 6. Paola Espinosa/Laura Sanchez (MEX) 277.38; 7. Olga Leonova/Olena Zhupina (UKR) 269.31, 8. Hyon Ju/Kim Kyong Ju (KOR) 263.76.
Men:
3m synchronised springboard final: 1. Alexander Dobroskok/Dmitry Sautin (RUS) 369.18; 2. Wang Tianling/Wang Feng (CHN) 343.29; 3. Andreas Wels/Tobias Schellenberg (GER) 334.44; 4. Joel Rodriguez/Fernando Platas (MEX) 328.26; 5. Justin Dumais/Troy Dumain (USA) 327.99; 6. E. Fornaris Alvarez/J. Betancourt Garcia 322.59; 7. Robert Newberry/Steven Barnett (AUS) 317.85; 8.Antonio Ally/Mark Shipman (GBR) 301.29.—AFP
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