Seven gold in hands, China continues winning streak in diving
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Updated: 2019-07-16 09:50
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Cao, 2012 London Olympic champion and bronzed medalist in 2013 worlds, moved to 3m springboard since then and won the 3m champion in 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In Gwangju, he claimed 3m synchro with Xie Siyi two days ago and then built up his reputation on the synchro platform, again.
Started from second place in the first round, Cao/Chen led the field from the second dive and never looked back by keeping high poise in their four free attempts, all in 90+ points. Their fourth dive 207B (Backward 3 1/2 somersault pike) collected as high as 97.20 and snatched the gold in 486.93.
