U.S. Wins Three Medals at World Aquatics Diving World Cup in Canada
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U.S. divers won three medals at a World Aquatics Diving World Cup meet in Windsor, Canada from April 10-13.
2024 Olympian Carson Tyler (Moultrie, Ga./Indiana University) had a hand in two of those medals. Tyler paired with Joshua Hedberg (Noblesville, Ind.) for a silver medal in synchronized 10-meter on Saturday morning and came back later that same day to claim another silver in the individual 3-meter event.
Jack Ryan (Denver, Colo./Stanford Diving) and Quinn Henninger (Denver, Colo./Indiana University) rounded out the U.S. medalists with a bronze in synchronized 3-meter on Sunday.
Tyler scored 447.65 points to claim the individual 3-meter silver, finishing 23.20 points behind Great Britain’s Jordan Houlden. China’s Zheng Jiuyuan finished with 433.15 for bronze. In fourth place halfway through the contest, Tyler took over the second spot with 80.50 points on a reverse 3 ½ tuck in round four. After dropping to third in the fifth round, he closed out his list with 79.80 points on a front 4 ½ tuck to move back into the silver medal spot.
Tyler and Hedberg finished with 387.90 points for the 10-meter synchro silver medal, with gold going to China’s Zhu Zifeng and Cheng Zilong at 437.25. The Canadian duo of Benjamin Tessier and Matt Cullen scored 381.15 for bronze. Tyler and Hedberg were in sixth place after three rounds but came through with 70 or more points on all four of their optional dives to finish with the silver medal.
Hedberg also advanced to Sunday’s individual 10-meter final and finished sixth with 413.30 points, Cheng and Zhu took the top two spots, with Ukraine’s Oleksii Sereda winning bronze.
Ryan and Henninger finished with 374.73 points to come from behind and pick up the bronze in a close 3-meter synchro contest. Just 3.78 points separated bronze and sixth place in the final standings. The Americans were eighth with two rounds to go. They scored 67.89 points on a front 3 ½ pike to move up to fifth after round five. They then finished their list with 77.52 points on a front 4 ½ tuck to overtake teams from Germany and Great Britain to win the bronze. China scored 388.05 for gold, with Mexico taking the silver at 381.72.
Ryan also competed individually on 3-meter and finished 14th with 368.90 points in Thursday’s preliminary.
Anna Lemkin (Woodside, Calif./Stanford Diving) led the U.S. women. She scored 263.30 points to finish 11th individually on 10-meter and paired with Lanie Gutch (Orlando, Fla./University of North Carolina) for fourth place in synchronized 10-meter. The duo scored 274.26 points, just 0.90 points behind the bronze medalists from Great Britain.
In women’s 3-meter, Sophia Verzyl (Columbia, S.C.) finished 15th with 261.80 points and Kyndal Knight (Stanley/Kentucky Diving) placed 16th with 261.10 points in the individual 3-meter preliminaries. Knight and Anna Kwong (Omaha, Neb./TCU) paired up for sixth in synchronized 3-meter with 257.40 points.
Chinese divers won all four women’s events.
Gutch, Ryan, Tyler and Verzyl teamed up to finish fifth in the mixed 3-meter and 10-meter team event, which was won by China.
