Tom Daley, Rebecca Gallantree Win 1st Mixed Team Diving World Title at 2015 FINA World Championships
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Tom Daley and Rebecca Gallantree struck world gold for Great Britain, resoundingly beating a pair of newly crowned Chinese champions to claim the inaugural mixed team diving title at 2015 FINA World Championships. Daley, world 10m champion in 2009, excelled himself with monumental scores in his two dives on the 10m tower in the three-round event in which each of the duo dived alternately three times, with at least one dive each on the 3m and 10m boards. It capped a great couple of days for Britain after Jack Laugher and Chris Mears had scooped bronze in the men’s 3m synchro final the previous evening, the nation’s first world championship diving medals since Daley’s triumph six years earlier.
The British pair, diving second of the 14 duos, won with 434.65 points, with Ukraine charging through in the last round to snatch the silver (426.45) and relegate China’s Xie Siyi and Chen Ruolin to bronze (425.40), with the Russian hosts denied a medal in fourth place (418.50).
Daley, Olympic 10m bronze medallist at the 2012 London Games, rocketed the British pair into the lead with his second dive, an armstand back three somersaults which netted four perfect 10s from the judges and 101.50 points, the highest score of the night. With Gallantree maintaining the momentum in her turn, Daley nailed his final back 3-1/2 somersaults for a score of 99.00 which left any challengers with an enormous challenge – one that proved beyond even the Chinese, who had won all but one of the seven titles previously decided in Kazan, Italy’s Tania Cagnotto prevailing on the 1m springboard.
Oleksandr Gorshkovozov and Iuliia Prokopchuk were Ukraine’s heroes, Gorshkovozov unfurling a superb forward 4-1/2 somersaults from the tower with his last dive for a score of 99.90 and Prokopchuk finishing the job with a back 2-1/2 somersaults and 1-1/2 twists for 81.60 which together propelled them from sixth in the second round to silver in the third and last. It carried them past the Chinese pair, leaving the favourites with bronze to go with Olympic champion Chen’s Kazan gold in the women’s 10m synchro – her fifth in succession at the Worlds – and Xie’s gold in the men’s 1m springboard.
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2015 FINA World Championships, Diving: Day 6 Results – Results