{"id":437,"date":"2019-07-22T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/?p=437"},"modified":"2019-07-22T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:35:05","slug":"high-diving-day-1-flawless-lobue-impressive-jimenez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"High Diving, Day 1: Flawless LoBue; impressive Jimenez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The initial day of the High Diving competition at the 18th<\/sup>\n FINA World Championships in Gwangju, including the first two rounds of \npreliminaries for both men and women, brought different results for the \nreigning world champions. Steve LoBue (USA), winner in 2017, is the \nprovisional leader, after excelling in his trademark dive, a front 5 \nsomersaults, for which he got a massive 142.80 points from the judges. \nIn the women\u2019s event, Rhiannan Iffland (AUS), gold medallist two years \nold, is fifth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being the only man in the field capable of executing this \ncombination, LoBue managed to conclude the day with an encouraging \nadvance over his main challengers. At this stage, they are Jonathan \nParedes, from Mexico, who also performed a flawless front 4 somersaults 1\n \u00bd twists, which received two perfect 10s from the judges. But as the DD\n was inferior (4.7, against 5.1 for LoBue), the score of the dive for \nParedes was \u201conly\u201d of 133.95. The Mexican great was bronze medallist in \n2013 and runner-up in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In third, Michal Navratil (CZE) is determined to replicate his 2017 \nperformance, when he won silver on the shore of the Danube River in \nBudapest. He has, after these first two rounds, a total of 194.05, while\n LoBue leads with 218.40 and Paredes collected 209.55. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015 world champion Gary Hunt \u2013 winner of the FINA World Cup last May\n in China \u2013 is fourth for the moment, not having totally succeeded his \nfront 3 somersaults with 3 \u00bd twists (117.60 points, for a total of \n189.00). Alessandro de Rose (ITA), bronze medallist in Budapest 2017, is\n fifth in 187.50.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men\u2019s competition proceeds this Wednesday, with the final two rounds of dives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jimenez leads<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Silver medallist in Budapest 2017, and third in this year\u2019s World \nCup, Adriana Jimenez (MEX), is the provisional leader among the 13-women\n field, leading after two rounds in 148.20 points. The Mexican ace, \nwinner of the 2017 World Cup did two very consistent dives, namely the \nsecond combination, a 306C (reverse 3 somersaults, tuck), for which she \nreceived marks between 7.0 and 8.5 from the judges. Being a DD 3.9 \nattempt, this obviously brought a lot of points \u2013 93.60, the highest of \nthe prelims \u2013 to Jimenez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defending world champion Rhiannan Iffland (AUS), also gold \nmedallist at the FINA World Cup 2018, started the competition with the \nmost successful dive \u2013 a reverse flying with 1 somersault, worth 66.30 \n-, but then lost control in the second combination (a back 3 \nsomersaults, 2 twists) and missed the entry. She finished the two-round \npreliminary in fifth position, but is confident in a better outcome in \nthe final two rounds of dives, this Tuesday in Gwangju.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe place is cool and it\u2019s nice to come back to a pool \nsimilar to what we knew from Budapest. It\u2019s a nice experience for me. \nToday, it didn\u2019t go so well for me as I expected, but tomorrow I\u2019ll come\n back strong\u201d, considered the Australian star. \u201cI don\u2019t present any new \ndive, as I feel comfortable with the ones I have. I\u2019ll try to feel as \nconfident as I can for the final rounds, that will be my strategy\u201d, she \nconcluded. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

From the side of Jimenez, things also look positive. \u201cIt \nwent quite good. I had lost a bit the \u2018taste\u2019 of competing with this \nkind of pool, but the setting here in Gwangju is really nice! The \natmosphere is great, and despite feeling a bit nervous, I managed to \n\u2018close\u2019 very well my dive\u201d, admitted the Mexican champion. \u201cFor \ntomorrow, I\u2019ll take one dive at the time. I don\u2019t like to have many \nexpectations. I like to dive on a serene way, not thinking about the \noverall result. Despite a minor injury in my back and a hernia, I can \ncope with that. This \u2018job\u2019 is hard and sometimes the body pays a high \nprice for what we are doing\u201d. Jimenez concluded by highlighting the \npresence of some new faces among the women competition: \u201cIt\u2019s always \ngood to bring new \u2018blood\u2019 to this world, especially new girls. We need \nto develop the sport, in order to fulfil one day the Olympic dream\u201d. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The top-3 among women so far in Gwangju, and besides Jimenez (148.20) in the lead, comprises Jessica Macaulay (USA<\/g>, second in 145.90) and Genevieve Bradley (USA<\/g>, third in 144.00).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: FINA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The initial day of the High Diving competition at the 18th FINA World Championships in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ppp_document_settings_meta":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[91,35],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-diving","tag-world-championship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gettyimages-1163478850.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}