World Cup, diving: Di Maria seventh in the final from the platform

by our correspondent Stefano Arcobelli

June 27
– BUDAPEST

Sarah Jodoin Di Maria is seventh in the final from the Budapest World Cup platform: it is the best result ever achieved by an Italian. Valentina Marocchi in Montreal 2005 and Noemi Batki in Gwangju 2019 reached the 8th place. Flawless test of the sailor of F.lli Marconi, trained by Tommaso Marconi – and embellished with an excellent double somersault and a half back with a twist and a half (62.40) and above all by a beautiful handstand with double somersault back with a twist and mezzo (67.20), made even more difficult by the broken ligament of the thumb of the left hand, with which the Italian-Canadian will have to live up to the European Championships in Rome: then in September he will have to undergo surgery. The gold and silver, as expected, are from the Chinese Yuxi Chen and Hongchan Quan, respectively vice champion and Olympic champion in Tokyo, with 417.25 and 416.95 points; on the lowest step of the podium the Malaysian Padelela Pamg climbs with 338.85.

The words

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“I did not expect to go so well, because I spent some difficult weeks due to the problem in hand – underlines the 23-year-old Italian-Canadian, ninth at the European Championships in Budapest 2021, where she was silver in the Team Event – It was a final very beautiful, in which I have been cleaned in all the routines. I want to improve further and I know I can do it: I am already thinking about the European Championships in Rome, I would like to give Italy a joy. I would like to thank the Italian Swimming Federation for the support it has given me in this phase ”.

MARSAGLIA OUT

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Nothing to do for Lorenzo Marsaglia who fails to snatch the pass for the final from the 3-meter springboard. In the semifinal, which opens the afternoon program of the second day of the World Championships at the Duna Arena, the blue closes a match with some indecision too many in fourteenth place, second of the excluded. The 25-year-old from Rome – registered for the Navy and CC Aniene, followed by Benedetta Molaioli – after a good start with the nice triple somersault and half forward pike (66.65) and the excellent double somersault and a half forward with 2 pike twists (69.70 ), does not find the vertical in the double somersault and half back pike (48.00) and misses the entry of the triple somersault and half reversed grouped (33.25), seeing the qualification compromised. Marsaglia closes with 355.50 points, for entry into the final he had to do better than the 360.95 of the Japanese Sho Sakai twelfth. The best is obviously the Chinese and vice-Olympic champion Zongyuan Wang with a staggering 547.95 points.