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Diving: Canada win 2 golds

Canada, led by former world champion Alexandre Despatie, won two of the three diving medals on offer on Sunday.

Updated on: Oct 11, 2010 12:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By , New Delhi
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Canada, led by former world champion Alexandre Despatie, won two of the three diving medals on offer on Sunday.

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Australian pair of Melissa Wu and Alexandra Croak won the 10m synchronised platform final while earlier in the morning, the pair of Jennifer Abel and Emilie Heymans won Canada their first diving gold after scoring 318.9 points in the women's 3m springboard event. In the evening, Despatie had no problem defending his 1m springboard title, scoring 468.15 points in the final ahead of two Australians.

"Of course it's a nice feeling to win and it will help me prepare for London,” he said.

 
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Somshuvra Laha

Somshuvra Laha is a sports journalist with over 11 years' experience writing on cricket, football and other sports. He has covered the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, the 2016 ICC World Twenty20, cricket tours of South Africa, West Indies and Bangladesh and the 2010 Commonwealth Games for Hindustan Times.

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