Diving GP: Dhabitah Sabri-Cheong Jun Hoong Win Malaysia's 3rd Gold

BUKIT JALIL: Malaysia ended their campaign in the FINA Diving Grand Prix Kuala Lumpur leg with a third gold medal through Cheong Jun Hoong-Nur Dhabitah Sabri in the women’s 10m platform synchro discipline at National Aquatic Centre today.

Jun Hoong-Nur Dhabitah led from the second round onwards for a combined 319.74 total, followed by China’s Wang Han-Wang Ying (283.38) and Ukraine’s Vlada Tatsenko-Ganna Krasnoshlyk (273.33). 

The 16-year-old also won silver medals in the women’s 3m springboard synchro with Jun Hoong and the springboard mixed synchro with Syafiq Puteh.

 “It was a tiring day as I competed in three events. I am glad that I did well and won medals in all disciplines,” said Nur Dhabitah today. 

“Winning the platform synchro gold was a surprise as Jun Hoong and I are only focusing on the springboard in training as we are preparing ourselves for Olympic qualification through the Rio World Cup in February.” 

In the springboard mixed synchro, China’s Wu Chunting-Li Yanan clinched the title on 303.00 ahead of silver medallists Nur Dhabitah-Syafiq (287.70) and Ukraine’s Oleg Kolodiy-Anastasia Nedobiga (287.28). 

China’s Xu Zhihuan-Wu Chunting topped the women’s 3m springboard synchro event with 304.50, followed by Jun Hoong-Nur Dhabitah (288.75) and Ukraine’s Anastasia Nedobiga-Viktoriya Kesar (280.95). 

In the men’s 10m platform final, China finished one-and-two through Wang Anqi (471.85) and Gao Ang (451.70) followed by Norway’s Espen Valheim (396.80) while Chew Yiwei finished fourth on 392.25. 

Malaysia’s other goals were from the men’s springboard synchro (Ahmad Amsyar Azman-Yiwei) and platform mixed synchro (Yiwei-Jun Hoong) events.

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