Chinese divers continued to cleared the path within the semi-finals for the boys’s 3m springboard diving, after Xie Siyi and Wang Zongyuan produced a collection of spectacular dives to say the highest two spots.
Xie and Wang, who received the gold medal within the synchronised 3m springboard as team-mates final week, have been within the high two for your complete competitors, and completed with 543.45 and 540.50 factors respectively forward of at this time’s closing.
One in every of them may turn out to be the primary male diver in 20 years to win each particular person and synchronised 3m springboard on the similar Olympics after their compatriot Xiong Ni achieved such a feat on the 2000 Sydney Olympics Video games.
Jack Laugher and James Heatly of Britain got here third and fourth, whereas 40-year-old Japanese Ken Terauchi, the diving occasion’s oldest contender, additionally certified within the high 12, ending seventh.
Laugher turned Britain’s first ever Olympic diving champion alongside Chris Mears at Rio 2016 – however solely narrowly prevented ending final with new accomplice Daniel Goodfellow in Tokyo within the 3m synchronised occasion final week.
“[It] was only a dangerous day and everyone has them,” Laugher mentioned after that disappointment. “Generally you may’t put your finger on it.
“We awakened feeling good. We felt a little bit bit nervous however not more than a standard competitors. Springboard diving is a little bit of a b—- actually. It actually does simply go south in a short time and there’s little or no you are able to do about it.”
Laugher additionally received Olympic silver within the 3m particular person springboard in 2016 – and mentioned he nonetheless feels “fairly good” about his prospects of creating the rostrum once more.
Colombia, which has by no means received an Olympic medal in diving, exited the competitors after Daniel Restrepo Garcia and Sebastian Morales Mendoza did not make the lower.
The strain is on for Mexico’s Rommel Pacheco Marrufo after his team-mate Osmar Olvera Ibarra did not qualify for the finals — their nation has beforehand excelled at Olympic diving, its most medal-producing sport in historical past. The 35-year-old has mentioned prior to now that he plans to retire after Tokyo. Reuters