DALEY TAKES SECOND MEDAL IN MADRID
Young Tom Daley has continued to show the world his true
potential by claiming his second medal at the FINA Diving
Grand Prix in Madrid.
The 13-year-old British athlete was competing against the
world's best divers in the men's Platform individual and kept
his nerve to claim the bronze medal.
China's Jia Hu and Liguang Yang have looked strong through
this Grand Prix and today proved no different. The team-mates
dominated the event from the first round scoring highly to
position themselves in the top two places.
With the top two spots decided early on, Daley (Plymouth)
and British team-mate Peter Waterfield (Southampton) were
left to fight it out for the bronze medal. Daley showed his
maturity by keeping up with the Chinese divers and even scored
four perfect 10's in his first round.
When Waterfield dropped his back 2 ½ somersaults 2
½ twists piked (5255B) the way was clear for Daley
to step up and claim his second medal of the competition.
He took to the boards and performed his back 3 ½ tuck
(207C) excellently and scored highly to put the bronze medal
out of his team-mates hands.
Daley claimed bronze with an impressive final score of 495.45.
Silver was taken by Liguang Yang with 506.55 and Olympic champion
Jia Hu took gold with 540.75.
The women's 3m Springboard synchro saw Britain's Hayley Sage
and Tandi Gerrard looking to replicate their performance at
the CAMO invitational meet in December with another international
medal.
Sage (City of Sheffield) and Gerrard (City of Leeds) looked
strong in the first two rounds where they lay within the medals.
But they dropped marks in their reverse 2 ½ tuck (305C)
to drop down to the fourth spot and the girls battled hard
but just couldn't get back into the medal positions.
They finished in fourth place with a promising score of 270.84
points. Gold was taken by China's Ting Li and Qinxi Zhao with
296.40, silver was claimed by the Ukranian team of Olena Federova
and Alevtyna Korolyova with 292.44 and bronze was won by Canada's
Blythe Hartley and Melanie Rinaldi with 287.7
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