Chinese New Blood Wins Men's 3m Synch Diving at World ChampionshipsMaking their world championships debut, Chinese Peng Bo and Wang Kenan won the men's three meters springboard synchronized diving gold with 342.62 points at the 9th FINA world swimming championships here on Sunday.This was the first victory for the Chinese duet in any world- class competitions, who had trained together no more than three years. Peng, now 20, from the Chinese Navy, won both individual springboard titles at the 1998 world military swimming championships in Rome and was the springboard diving champion at the 1999 World Military Games in Croatia. He took the silver medal in the three-meter springboard event at the FINA Grand Prix Finals last December in Bangkok. Wang Kenan, 21, from northern Chinese Province of Hebei, won the one-meter springboard title at the Asian swimming championships in March last year in Pusan, South Korea. Joel Rodriguez and Fernando Platas from Mexico, took the second place here with 338.49 points and Russia's Olympic silver- medalists from last year's Sydney Games Dimitry Saoutine teamed with Alexander Dobroskok were third with 335.19. |
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