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Tough Task for Our Divers .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 Pandelela Rinong-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. Cheong Jun Hoong (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-Lian Junjie (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-Melissa Wu (311.16). compete overseas. China's newly-crowned Diving World Series ''I think they can challenge China for the overall champions Ren Qian-Si Yajie 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-Roseline Filion 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..
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