Francesca Dallape

Olympic champions Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia won the women's 3m synchronised springboard event at the World Championships here on Friday. For Guo it was the fifth time in a row she has won a 3m and 3m synchronised double at the worlds. Italians Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallape finished second with Russians Julia Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdniakova pipping Jennifer Abel and Melanie Rinaldi of Canada for bronze. The result was never in any doubt as Guo and Wu led from start to finish, as they had also done in the preliminaries. Guo is the most successful diver of all time having won 10 ... Read Full Story

by Barnaby Chesterman ROME (AFP) -- Olympic champions Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia won the women's 3m synchronised springboard event at the World Championships here on Friday. For Guo it was the fifth time in a row she has won a 3m and 3m synchronised double at the worlds. Italians Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallape finished second with Russians Julia Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdniakova pipping Jennifer Abel and Melanie Rinaldi of Canada for bronze. The result was never in any doubt as Guo and Wu led from start to finish, as they had also done in the preliminaries. Guo is the most successful diver ... Read Full Story

by Barnaby Chesterman ROME (AFP) -- Olympic champions Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia won the women's 3m synchronised springboard event at the World Championships here on Friday. For Guo it was the fifth time in a row she has won a 3m and 3m synchronised double at the worlds. Italians Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallape finished second with Russians Julia Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozdniakova pipping Jennifer Abel and Melanie Rinaldi of Canada for bronze. The result was never in any doubt as Guo and Wu led from start to finish, as they had also done in the preliminaries. Guo is the most successful diver ... Read Full Story

ROME, July 24 (UPI) -- Guo Jingjing won her 10th career World Diving Championships gold medal Friday, teaming with Wu Minxia to capture the women's springboard synchronized title. Guo has won both the individual and synchronized 3-meter gold at each of the last five world championships. She won the individual crown at both the Beijing and Athens Olympics as well as the silver medal in the Sydney Games nine years ago. Wu teamed with Guo to capture the synchronized 3-meter gold at the last two Olympics. Guo is such a major figure in China she was given a villa by an anonymous donor following ... Read Full Story

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