Troy Dumais (Ventura, Calif./Austin, Texas) picked up a pair of fifth-place finishes Saturday at the FINA Diving World Series in Windsor, Ontario. The four-time Olympian finished fifth in the individual men’s 3-meter competition before pairing with Laura Ryan (Elk River, Minn./Athens, Ga.) for fifth in mixed synchronized 3-meter.
Dumais scored 453.75 points to finish fifth in the individual 3-meter competition. Three of his six dives scored more than 80 points, including a reverse 3 ½ tuck that earned 84 points and a front 2 ½ with two twists that scored 85 points. Dumais also competed a front 4 ½ tuck, a relatively new dive for him, and he earned 57 points on the dive in the finals. Dumais advanced to the finals after placing third with 432.05 points in semifinal A. The top three divers from each of two semifinals advance to the six-diver final.
Great Britain’s Jack Laugher took home the 3-meter gold after finishing with 526.30 points. China’s He Chao scored 521.65 points for silver, and Mexico’s Rommel Pacheco was third at 498.10.
Immediately following the men’s 3-meter final, Dumais and Ryan competed in their first mixed 3-meter synchro competition together. A new FINA event for the 2015 season, mixed synchronized diving pairs a male and female diver together as a synchro team. The American team scored 279.66 points in their mixed synchro debut. Their inward 2 ½ pike scored 72 points and was the highest scoring dive by any team other than the Chinese gold medalists, but a miss on their front 3 ½ pike kept the Americans out of the medal hunt. He Zi and Lin Yue finished with 323.70 points for the win, with silver going to Mexico’s Pacheco and Dolores Hernandez with 299.70 points. Tom Daley and Alicia Blagg of Great Britain scored 296.31 points for the bronze.
The World Series in Windsor concludes Sunday, when David Boudia and Steele Johnson compete in the individual men’s 10-meter event. Boudia and Johnson won the silver medal in synchronized 10-meter on Friday.
Swimming news courtesy of USA Diving.
