Swimming: China adds to medals tally

SHANGHAI: Chinese duo Qin Kai and Luo Yutong continued the host country’s domination of the diving pool, winning the men’s three-metres springboard synchro final at the World Swimming Championships. Qin and Luo romped to victory with 463.98 points to give the hosts a perfect six golds from six finals after Shi Tingmao had earlier won the women’s one metre springboard gold. Russia’s Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov clinched silver after scoring 100.32 points with their final dive to finish on 451.89 while Mexico’s Yahel Castillo and Julian Sanchez took bronze (437.61).

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20^th, 2011.