World champions Wang Feng and Qin Kai won the men’s synchronised 3m springboard title yesterday to continue China’s diving domination with the hosts’ fourth straight gold in Beijing’s diving pool.
The victory keeps the host nation on course for a sweep of diving golds.
The Chinese won by a staggering margin of 469.08 points compared with the 421.98 of Russian silver medalists Sautin Dmitry and Yuriy Kunakov while Ukrainian pair Illya Kvasha and Oleksiy Prygorov took bronze with 415.05.
Qin and Wang made up for the disappointment of their last place in the same competition four years ago when they were hot favorites in Athens.
Having claimed gold in the FINA World Cup in February, the pair started by scoring three perfect 10 marks from the nine judges for their opening back pike.
With four rounds gone it was all over as the Chinese enjoyed a clear 20 point lead which they only extended.
“We performed very well,” Wang said. “We’ve coordinated for more than 20 months. That’s all for this event, so we should be focused and concentrate very well. This gold is so important to my life.”
“We have depth in our team,” Wang said. “We have a lot of different athletes from a lot of different provinces. Of course, we’re very rigorous in our training. That is why we achieve these results.”
Despite US pair Chris Colwill and Jevon Tarantino stumbling on their fourth round dive which put them sixth, the Americans recovered to claim fourth.
Canada’s Alexandre Despatie, who made Commonwealth Games history as the competition’s youngest gold medal winner at Kuala Lumpur in 1998 aged just 13, finished a disappointing fifth with partner Arturo Miranda.
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