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China's domination ends as Canadian wins medal
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-19 08:54
Canada's Blythe Hartley claimed the gold medal in the one-metre springboard
event at the world swimming championships on Monday, breaking China's domination
of the diving competition.
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the 2001 world champion on the one-metre board and a bronze medallist in 2003,
led through the preliminaries, semi-finals and all five final dives to earn
Canada its second medal of the championships with a total score of 325.65.
China's Wu Min Xia battled back from a poor first dive that left her in
fourth place to take the silver with 299.70, narrowly outpointing Germany's
Heike Fischer who had to settle for the bronze with a mark of 299.46.
Winners of a record six gold medals at last year's Olympics, Chinese divers
had been in devastating form and swept both golds in Sunday's opening events but
Wu, a gold and silver medallist in Athens, could not extend the streak against
the Canadian.
"I was nervous, even though I performed well in the prelims and the semis,
because I still had to start at zero in the final," said Hartley, who was once
coached by Chinese world champion Hui Tong.
"Just to have the consistency, knowing that I had done well earlier in the
day, made me feel confident. I think I missed one dive early in the prelims, so
for me that's pretty consistent.
"I don't think I've ever been that consistent ever."
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