Diving WA World Cup 2025

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Diving WA World Cup 2025

 

Multi-Stage Event - 3 April 2025 - 4 May 2025

 

 

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Edited April 9 by Sindo

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Well, we're just a few hours away from the start of this series, with the first stop being in my home city, on which the "boycott" was lifting afther the whole 2017 World Aquatics Championships cancellation some years ago. I'll be attending on Saturday and Sunday (finals days), and will try to share some pictures.

 

One of the novelties is that the qualification for the "stages" have suffered some modifications, with more athletes given a chance to start in both individual and synchro events (of course, they needed to obtain certain scores at designated competitions in the past months, including 2024 World Championships and 2024 Olympic Games).

 

The most significant change however, we'll be seen at the finals, in which there will be a head to head format, which you can read more here.

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TV coverage is on Eurovision Sports, at least here in Europe

 

Eurovision Sport | World Aquatics Diving World Cup 2025 - Stop 1

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World Aquatics Diving World Cup 2025

 

Stop 1 - April 3-6 -  Guadalajara 

 

Results Summary

 

Mixed 3m & 10m Team

Gold:   People's Republic of China - 489.10

Silver:   Italy - 416.45

Bronze:   Germany - 396.20

Full Results - Cup Ranking

 

Women 3m Synchronised

Gold:   Yiwen CHEN/Yani CHANG - 323.79

Silver:   Mia Zazil CUEVA LOBATO/Lia Yatzil CUEVA LOBATO - 298.08

Bronze:   Maddison KEENEY/Alysha KOLOI - 287.85

Finals Results - Cup Ranking

 

Men 10m Synchronised

Gold:   Zifeng ZHU/Zilong CHENG - 449.49

Silver:   Randal WILLARS VALDEZ/Kevin BERLÍN REYES - 435.45

Bronze:   Ruslan TERNOVOI/Nikita SHLEIKHER - 400.32

Finals Results - Cup Ranking

 

Women 10m Platform

Gold:   Yuxi CHEN - 419.35

Silver:   Hongchan QUAN - 414.40

Bronze:   Andrea SPENDOLINI-SIRIEIX - 337.70

Preliminaries Results - Finals Results - Cup Ranking

 

Men 3m Springboard

Gold:   Zongyuan WANG - 540.15

Silver:   Juan Manuel CELAYA HERNÁNDEZ - 457.45

Bronze:   Luis Felipe URIBE BERMÚDEZ - 452.05

Preliminaries Results - Finals Results - Cup Ranking

 

Men 3m Synchronised

Gold:   Osmar OLVERA IBARRA/Juan Manuel CELAYA HERNÁNDEZ - 430.23

Silver:   Yukang HU/Jiuyuan ZHENG - 413.16

Bronze:   Anthony HARDING/Jack LAUGHER - 396.06

Finals Results - Cup Ranking

 

Women 10m Synchronised

Gold:   Minjie ZHANG/Wei LU - 347.58

Silver:   Alejandra ESTUDILLO TORRES/Gabriela AGÚNDEZ GARCÍA - 316.62

Bronze:   Aleksandra KEDRINA/Anna KONANYKHINA - 302.10

Finals Results - Cup Ranking

 

Women 3m Springboard

Gold:   Jia CHEN - 380.55

Silver:   Yiwen CHEN - 372.90

Bronze:   Maddison KEENEY - 352.00

Preliminaries Results - Finals Results - Cup Ranking

 

Men 10m Platform

Gold:   Randal WILLARS VALDEZ - 547.70

Silver:   Zifeng ZHU - 468.65

Bronze:   Zilong CHENG - 463.80

Preliminaries Results - Finals Results - Cup Ranking

 

Edited April 8 by mrv86

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Well now's time for a little summary of my experience attending Stop 1.

 

Overall it was a nice experience, my first time visiting that venue in particular. It brought me some memories from my time at 2011 PanAm Games, seeing athletes from many countries. Now the venue is kind of dated, and it really needs some serious maintenance. For me it was unacceptable that the restrooms for the general public were in poor conditions, and also some sections need a fresh layer of paint, not to mention the heavy layer of dust in the ceiling. Thank God no debris fall in to the pool or on the spectators, but you may see a couple of pigeons continually flying around the swimming complex, even disrupting Mark Hrytsenko's last dive in 10m platform, before being sent away by Ruslan Ternovoi.

 

there was a pretty large number of Chinese fans on Saturday that came to support their team with flags & banners; however, their overall conduct was very poor, most of them crossing into the "top section" denying people who paid those tickets their rightful seats, ignoring and even shoving the few security elements at the venue and disrupting the general silence by replaying videos with loud sound or standing to take pictures while the divers were competing. Not that the Mexican fans were better; at times they were very disrespectful, particularly with divers preceding local competitors, since the cheered very loudly, ignoring the results (whether bad or good) of the former.

 

Among my personal highlights was the fact I had the opportunity to meet the Cuevas twins, who won a silver in 3m synchro and with only 14 are considered our next big stars in this sport, and also two time Olympic medalist in 10m synchro Alejandra Orozco, who was very active during the event, often oversawing and helping in any way needed, not to mention very kind and attentive to anyone asking for a photo. Also in attendance was Olympic figure skater Donovan Carrillo, whom I also asked for a photo.

 

I had an opportunity to see Maddison Keeney at the small cafeteria after winning a bronze in 3m synchro; she was very polite and gracious, accepting to take photos even when she needed to take a break and finish her sandwich; that same day I ran into Moritz Wesemann on my way back to my seat after getting a beer, and on the last day I almost bumped into Jack Laugher (he was going "incognito" mode while trying to decide what to grab from the food carts outside the main building).

 

So in general, I had a pleasant experience and would love to attend another event in the future. To top it off, there was a brief take of me during Sunday's men's 3m finals on WA stories, which of course I've already downloaded for keeps. I hope to find some time to upload some of the pictures I took; not the ones with me & above mentioned athletes since I'm not to photogenic, but of the few photos of the competition and the practice time that I find are worthy. 

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  On 4/9/2025 at 3:51 AM, mrv86 said:

So in general, I had a pleasant experience and would love to attend another event in the future. To top it off, there was a brief take of me during Sunday's men's 3m finals on WA stories, which of course I've already downloaded for keeps. I hope to find some time to upload some of the pictures I took; not the ones with me & above mentioned athletes since I'm not to photogenic, but of the few photos of the competition and the practice time that I find are worthy. 

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In all serious, glad to hear you had a good time.