Chinese divers in seventh heaven
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Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen destroyed a quality field to win gold in the men鈥檚 10-meter synchronized platform yesterday as China鈥檚 peerless divers made it seven from seven at the FINA world championships.
Former Olympic champion Cao and Chen, the reigning Olympic king, racked up a winning total of 486.93 points in Gwangju, South Korea 鈥 swatting aside their nearest rivals by a whopping 42 points.
Russian pair Viktor Minibaev and Aleksandr Bondar took silver with Britain鈥檚 Tom Daley and Matthew Lee settling for bronze after a botched fifth dive.
Frighteningly for their rivals, Cao insisted there was still room for improvement ahead of next year鈥檚 Tokyo Olympics after adding the 10m synchro gold to the 3m synchro he bagged at the weekend.
鈥淚 didn鈥檛 execute every dive the way I wanted tonight,鈥 said the 2012 London Olympic champion. 鈥淚 made some mistakes in the entry. My goal is to dive every dive perfectly.鈥
Chen, who completed a 10m synchro and 10m individual platform double at the 2016 Olympics, warned: 鈥淲e targeted breaking 500 points before the final and we鈥檙e very close to that. That was probably my best performance of the year but we should set our goals higher still.鈥
Daley expressed his delight at qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after reaching the world championship just eight months after teaming up with Lee. 鈥淲e鈥檙e massively happy to be world medalists and grab a spot for the Olympic Games.鈥
Daley will look to retain his individual 10m platform world title this weekend.
Earlier yesterday, favorites Shi Tingmao and Wang Han won synchro gold in the women鈥檚 3m springboard to continue China鈥檚 dominance.
Olympic champion Shi and reigning 3m mixed synchro world champion Wang produced another performance of unerring precision, scoring a total of 342.00 points 鈥 more than 30 points clear of the field.
Canada鈥檚 Jennifer Abel and Melissa Citrini Beaulieu took silver while Mexican pair Paola Espinosa Sanchez and Melany Hernandez Torres the bronze.
China scooped a remarkable seven of eight gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics and enjoyed a stranglehold again at the last worlds in Budapest, Hungary, two years ago, scooping eight of the 13 titles on offer.
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