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August 4, 2012, Saturday
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ITALY'S Tania Cagnotto threatens to disrupt China's domination of the Olympic diving medals so far after she qualified in second place for tomorrow's final of the women's 3m springboard.
The 27-year-old has a chance of claiming an Olympic medal at her fourth games after finishing today's semi-final just behind Wu Minxia of China who won the 18-strong final qualifier with a score of 394.40 points.
Cagnotto finished second with 362.10 ahead of third-placed He Zi of China who earned 354.50pts.
"I am very happy, but tomorrow in the final I will start again," said Cagnotto, who profited from a rare mistake by He on her third dive.
"I am not competing with Wu as she is very strong, but the other Chinese diver, He, made a mistake and it allowed me to come second, so we will have to see what happens tomorrow."
Chinese divers have won all four of the gold medals so far at London's Aquatic Centre as both Hi and Wu are already Olympic champions having paired up to win last Sunday's springboard synchro and are the reigning world champions.
Despite matching Wu's tally of 76.50 on her opening dive, Cagnotto has her work cut out to break the Chinese stranglehold in the diving pool after the 26-year-old Wu led from the first round.
The world champion impressed the judges to earn 81.00 points for both her fourth and fifth dives to ensure she won by more than 30 points from her five dives -- a considerable margin in diving.
Wu, a silver medallist in Athens and bronze in Beijing, also won Friday's preliminary from Hi, who finished second, and Cagnotto, who qualified for the semi-final in third place.
China are halfway towards winning all eight diving golds at London after wins by Qin Kai and Luo Yutong (men's 3m synchro), Chen Ruolin and Wang Hao (women's 10m synchro), Cao Yuan and Zhang Yanquan (men's 10m synchro) and Wu He's 3m synchro.
Canada's Jennifer Abel (353.25), Cassidy Krug (345.60), Christina Loukas (339.75) both of the USA comprised the top six.
The biggest cheer of the afternoon session was reserved for Britain's Rebecca Gallantree who finished 18th -- and last -- of the divers.
The 27-year-old has a chance of claiming an Olympic medal at her fourth games after finishing today's semi-final just behind Wu Minxia of China who won the 18-strong final qualifier with a score of 394.40 points.
Cagnotto finished second with 362.10 ahead of third-placed He Zi of China who earned 354.50pts.
"I am very happy, but tomorrow in the final I will start again," said Cagnotto, who profited from a rare mistake by He on her third dive.
"I am not competing with Wu as she is very strong, but the other Chinese diver, He, made a mistake and it allowed me to come second, so we will have to see what happens tomorrow."
Chinese divers have won all four of the gold medals so far at London's Aquatic Centre as both Hi and Wu are already Olympic champions having paired up to win last Sunday's springboard synchro and are the reigning world champions.
Despite matching Wu's tally of 76.50 on her opening dive, Cagnotto has her work cut out to break the Chinese stranglehold in the diving pool after the 26-year-old Wu led from the first round.
The world champion impressed the judges to earn 81.00 points for both her fourth and fifth dives to ensure she won by more than 30 points from her five dives -- a considerable margin in diving.
Wu, a silver medallist in Athens and bronze in Beijing, also won Friday's preliminary from Hi, who finished second, and Cagnotto, who qualified for the semi-final in third place.
China are halfway towards winning all eight diving golds at London after wins by Qin Kai and Luo Yutong (men's 3m synchro), Chen Ruolin and Wang Hao (women's 10m synchro), Cao Yuan and Zhang Yanquan (men's 10m synchro) and Wu He's 3m synchro.
Canada's Jennifer Abel (353.25), Cassidy Krug (345.60), Christina Loukas (339.75) both of the USA comprised the top six.
The biggest cheer of the afternoon session was reserved for Britain's Rebecca Gallantree who finished 18th -- and last -- of the divers.
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