2011.02.22 - 10:40:30 /radiorebelde.HAVANA, CUBA.- Cuban pair Jose Antonio Guerra and Jeinkler Aguirre won a bronze medal in the men’s 3-meter platform synchro event of the first meet of the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2011 held from February 18-20 in Madrid, Spain.The Cubans accumulated 381,66 points to finish behind champions Yuan Cao and Yuanquan Zhang (460,95) from China, and runners-up Victor Minibaev and Ilya Zakharov (439,59) from Russia.">2011.02.22 - 10:40:30 /radiorebelde.HAVANA, CUBA.- Cuban pair Jose Antonio Guerra and Jeinkler Aguirre won a bronze medal in the men’s 3-meter platform synchro event of the first meet of the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2011 held from February 18-20 in Madrid, Spain.The Cubans accumulated 381,66 points to finish behind champions Yuan Cao and Yuanquan Zhang (460,95) from China, and runners-up Victor Minibaev and Ilya Zakharov (439,59) from Russia.">

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Cuban Divers Win Bronze Medal in First Stop of FINA Grand Prix in Madrid

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  • 02 / 22 / 2011

2011.02.22 - 10:40:30 /radiorebelde.HAVANA, CUBA.- Cuban pair Jose Antonio Guerra and Jeinkler Aguirre won a bronze medal in the men’s 3-meter platform synchro event of the first meet of the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2011 held from February 18-20 in Madrid, Spain.

The Cubans accumulated 381,66 points to finish behind champions Yuan Cao and Yuanquan Zhang (460,95) from China, and runners-up Victor Minibaev and Ilya Zakharov (439,59) from Russia.

In the 10-meter platform, Guerra placed fifth with 470,75 units, far behind gold medalist Cao (576,30), runner-up Luxin Zhou —also from China—, and third place Oleksandr Bondar (500,60) from Ukraine.

China dominated the meet winning six out of the eight titles up for grabs. Ukrainian Illya Kvasha (men’s 3-meter springboard) and Canadian Jennifer Abel (women’s 3-meter springboard) preventing a total Chinese sweep.

The next FINA Grand Prix meet will take place in Penza, Russia, on February 24-26. The other stages are scheduled for Montreal, Canada (April 28-May 1); Fort  Lauderdale, United States (May 5-8), Rostock, Germany (May 27-29) and Bolzano, Italy (June 10-12).

Medallists in Madrid

Men

3m springboard: 1. Illya Kvasha (UKR) 497.00; 2. Shixin Li (CHN) 483.35;3. Cesar Castro (BRA) 469.45

10m platform: 1. Yuan Cao (CHN) 576.30; 2. Luxin Zhou (CHN) 538.05; 3.Oleksandr Bondar (UKR) 500.60

3m springboard synchro: 1. Zhiyi Sun/Longji Yu (CHN) 430.86; 2. Eugeny Kuznetsov/Ilya Zakharov (RUS) 425.70; 3. Illya

Kvasha/Oleksiy Prygorov (UKR) 415.08

10m platform synchro: 1. Yuan Cao/Yanquan Zhang (CHN) 460.95; 2. Victor Minibaev/Ilya Zakharov (RUS) 439.59; 3. Jose G.

Oliva/Jenklen A. Manso (CUB) 381.66

Women

3m springboard: 1. Jennifer Abel (CAN) 357.45; 2. Han Wang (CHN) 344.35; 3. Anna Lindberg (SWE) 333.45

10m platform: 1. Sinou Ma (CHN) 408.55; 2. Tingting Ke (CHN) 374.80; 3. Hannah Thek (AUS) 307.00

3m springboard synchro: 1. Han Wang/Quilin Zheng (CHN) 320.10; 2. Nadezda Bazhina/Svetlana Phillppova (RUS) 297.36; 3. Olena

Fedorova/Anna Pysmenska (UKR) 289.20

10m platform synchro: 1. Huixia Liu/Jiaming Zhu (CHN) 346.92; 2. Meaghan Benfeito/Roseline Filion (CAN) 319.83; 3. Alina

Chaplenko/Iuliia Prokopchuk (UKR) 296.52

Source: Radio Rebelde and ACN

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