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2016 FINA Diving World Cup Team
Published Thu 17 Dec 2015
Diving Australia has announced the team to travel to the Diving World Cup to be held in Rio in late February 2016.
The World Cup doubles as the Olympic test event and the last opportunity to qualify Rio quota spots
The team will be headlined by Olympic Silver Medallist Melissa Wu and Olympic Gold Medallist Matthew Mitcham as well as Commonwealth Games Gold Medallists Esther Qin and Domonic Bedggood.
Athletes:
- Melissa Wu – Women’s 10 metre
- Matthew Mitcham – Men’s 10 metre synchronised
- Domonic Bedggood – Men’s 10 metre and Men’s 10 metre synchronised
- Esther Qin – Women’s 3m and Women’s 3m synchronised
- Maddison Keeney – Womens’s 3 metre
- Grant Nel – Men’s 3 metre and Men’s 3m synchronised
- Teju Williamson – Women’s 10 metre synchronised
- Taneka Kovchenko – Women’s 10 metre synchronised
- James Connor – Mens 3 metre, Men’s 10 Metre and Men’s 3 metre synchronised
- Samantha Mills – Women’s 3 metre synchronised
- Emily Meaney – Women’s 10 metre
Coaches:
- Hui Tong
- Chava Sobrino
- Michel Larouche
Team Manager:
- Michael Hetherington
Gillian Brooker was also announced as Technical Official.
