China Wins Men's 10m Synchronized Diving Gold at Asiad

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China Wins Men's 10m Synchronized Diving Gold at Asiad

Chinese pair Hu Jia and Xu Hao comfortably won the men's 10m synchronized diving gold medal at the 14th Asian Games Tuesday evening.

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Chinese Pair Wins Men's 10m Synchronized Platform at Asian Games

Chinese pair Hu Jia and Xu Hao proved China's strength in diving when they comfortably won the men's 10msynchronized platform gold medal at the 14th Asian Games Tuesday evening.

This is the second gold that Chinese divers collected at the Asian Games after world champions Wu Minxia and Guo Jingjing defeated injury and their rivals to win the women's 3m synchronized diving gold in the Tuesday morning, the first day of diving competition.

Hu and Xu collected 356.64 points from five dives, beating their nearest rivals Ri Jong-nam and Jo Chol-ryong of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by more than 30 points.

The DPR Korean divers, who made little appearance in international competitions, had a total of 326.19 points.

Cho Kwan-hoon and Kwon Kyung-min of South Korea finished third at 311.70.

Hu Jia and Xu Hao led the diving final from the first round with 54 points. After setting up the pace, the pair further extended their leading place with each dive. In the fifth and final dive, Hu and Xu executed perfect a forward three-and-half somersault tuck which earned them a total of 88.32 points, the highest score in the evening. With the dive, they got a perfect 10 from the judge from DPR Korea for synchronization -- the only 10 of the evening.

In the women's 3m springboard synchronized diving in the morning, Chinese duo Wu and Guo collected 319.80 points from five dives, beating South Korean duo Kang Min-kyung and Im Sung-young, who had 248.04 points, to the second place.

Abdullah Farah Begum and Leong Mun Yee won Malaysia its first ever Asiad diving medal with a 245.34 total points.

Wu and Guo, with bandages on their shins, had to beat themselves in the dives as none of the rivals could pose any threat to them.

After first three dives, both divers had managed to pull 25 points clean of South Korea.

It is the first two golds decided at the 14th Asian Games and China is expected to clinch all eight diving golds on offer in Busan.

China had a clean sweep of diving titles in Bangkok at the lastAsiad four years ago.

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