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China Outshines in Women's 10m Platform Semifinal
China's Wang Rui entered the women's 10m platform final at the 21st Universiade Friday with a comfortable lead of 31 points over her leading rival and teammate Cai Yuyan, with Choe Myong Hwa from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea trailing a further six points adrift.
Wang compiled 534.45 points from her four dives in the semifinal, before Cai's 503.19 points and Choe's 496.98 points.
Olena Zhupina from Ukraine was fourth with 492.15 points and Ri Ok Rim from the DPR Korea was fifth with 491.17.
Canadian Myriam Boileau collected 463.65 points to place sixth, ahead of Japanese Takiri Miyazaki with 450.12.
In the third event of the ten-event diving sport at the Tsinghua University diving pool, Chinese again outshined others with their master performance. Wang, who was 30 points ahead of the second going to the semifinal, stayed on the top all through the four rounds of dives. Cai, who came into the semifinal as fourth, moved ahead and overtook Olena Zhupina and Ri Ok Rim.
Wang clinched 77.76 points for her last of the five dives in the preliminary, a superbly executed back one and a half somersaults and three and a half twists. This was the highest score so far in Friday's diving program.
Wang took silver in the 10m platform at the 1999 Universiade in Palma de Mallorca, behind teammate Fu Mingxia. She also won a gold in the synchronized 10m platform in 1997 at the Diving World Cup in Mexico.
Cai won the double silver medals -- in individual and synchronized 10m platform events -- at the Swimming World Championships in 1998 in Perth.
The final will take place Friday evening at the same venue of the preliminary and the semifinal, the Tsinghua University Natatorium.
China grabbed the first two golds in the diving pool at the Universiade Thursday in the men's and the women's 1m springboard.
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