.Sport 41 THE STAR, MONDAY 17 JU,LY2017 Tough task for our divers Pandelela-Jun Hoong face huge threat from North Koreans in final BV LIM TEIK HUAT FINAL RESULTS MEN PETALING JAVA:.North Korea's Kim Mi-rae- 3m springboard synchro: 1. Evgenil Kuznetsov-Jlia Zakharov (Rus) Kim Kuk-hyang pose a real threat to Malaysians 450.30, Hao Yuan-Xie Siyi (Chn) 443.40,3. Oleg Kolodiy-Jlya -Cheong [un Hoang's hopes of Kvasha (Ukr) 429.99. earning a medal at the World Aquatics Cham- WOMEN 1m springboard individual: 1. Maddison Keeney (Aus) 314.95, 2. pionships in Hungary, Going all out: Cheong lun Hoong (left) and Nadezhda Bazhina (Rus) 304.70, 3. Elena Bertocchi (Ita) 296.40; Pandelela Rinong in action in the women's .'Pandelela-Jun Hoang, the silver medallists at Selected: 12. (Mas) 252.45. the Rio Olympics last August, qualified for the MIXED 10m platform synchro at the World Aquatics women's 10m platform synchro final in fourth 10m platform synchro: 1. Ren Qian- (Chn) 352.98, - Championships in Hungary yesterday. - 2. Lois Toulson-Matthew Lee (Bri) 323.28, 3. Kim Ml-rae-Hyon . Reuters . spot with 309.66 points in Budapest yesterday. JI-Myong (Prk) 318.12. . Mi-rae-Kuk-hyang scored 75.84 for their last dive for a 325.62 total to finish second in the preliminaries ahead of Australia's Taneka North Koreans, they don't germany chances to Kovchenko- (311.16). compete overseas. . . China's newly-crowned World Series ''I think they can challenge China for the overall champions Ren Qian- qualified gold, too. It will be a tough fight for Pandelela- first for the top-12 final with 334.32 points. [un Hoang to finish on the podium. They cer- Pandelela-Jun Hoang will have to raise their tainly cannot afford to make even one' mis- dives in the final with the North Koreans look- take." ing good in the preliminaries. [un Hoang blew her chance to earn an indi- Mi-rae-Kuk-hyang just missed out on a medal vidual medal after finishing last among the 12 after placing fourth behind Canadians Meaghan finalists in the women's 1m springboard indi- Benfeito- in Rio last year. vidual on Saturday. Kuk-hyang was the winner of the 10m plat- Jun Hoang, who finished third in the prelim- form indivtdual title at the last worlds in Kazan, inaries, could only manage 252.45 points in an Russia, two years ago while Mi-rae partnered error-filled performance. - Hyon ll-myong to take the bronze in the mixed Australia's Maddison Keeney clinched the 10m platform synchro on Saturday. gold in the non-Olympic event with 314.95 Said national coach Yang Zhuliang: "Mi-rae points. Powerhouse China surprisingly ended and Kuk-hyang put up a very good and consist- up without a medal as Chen Yiwen was placed ent performance in the preliminaries. like all fourth with a 294.70 total.