Australian divers have finished the 2024 Diving World Cup in Montreal on a high with Anabelle Smith and Maddison Keeney taking home a bronze medal in the Women's 3-Metre Syncronished Springboard event. 

The pair secured the third place podium finish 31.80 point behind USA team of Cook and Bacon with a total score of 297.60.

Keeney shared the pair were fatigued heading into the final but enjoyed the competition experience.

"It was a little rough out there this morning, we're both a little tired as it is the end of the week, but landing five dives is nothing to complain about," said Keeney. 

"Maddi and I have been training really well all week, we are a little tired but trust in that we've put the work in," added Smith.

"This was another great competition in the lead up to Paris, we've got some good results under our belt and are looking forward to it." 

Australian teammates Cassiel Rousseau and Domonic Bedggood narrowly missed out on securing a podium finish, placing 4th in the Men's 10-Metre Platform Synchronised final. 

"Second competition of the season was a better performance, we are getting more consistent but overall we feel in good shape and looking forward to Paris 2024," shared Rousseau following the result. 

The final day of the Montreal Diving World Cup saw Shixin Li achieve 5th place in the Men's 3-Metre Springboard event. 

While Women's 10-Metre Platform stalwardt Emily Meaney achieved 11th place with 282.05 points, while Nikita Hains placed 15th in the Preliminary round of the event.  

Day 1 recap

The individual finals at the 2024 Diving World Cup in Montreal started Saturday with three Aussie athletes in action.

Maddison Keeney and Georgia Sheehan finished in fourth and ninth positions respectively in the Women’s 3-Metre Springboard with Sheehan happy to be back in the finals mix where she finished ninth overall with a total score of 295.30.  

“I’ve been on a bit of a finals dry spell for a couple of years now and it was nice to break that barrier down this weekend and make it into the final,” Sheehan said.

“I didn’t dive quite the way I wanted to (as) the travel fatigue got to me a little, but I’ve taken a lot of valuable lessons from this weekend that will be great for the upcoming competitions,” she said.

Keeney was unlucky to make the podium, finishing on a total score of 343.05, which was 1.35 points behind bronze medallist Yani Chang of China.  

“Overall, I was pretty happy with the competition,” Keeney said.

“I didn’t have any major disasters but there were also some things I would change. I wish I could go back and redo a couple of my dives because I wasn’t very happy with them, but overall, it was a high-quality competition from everybody which I think it’s really exciting,” she said.

After the final of the Men’s 10-Metre Platform, Cassiel Rousseau admitted to having some work to do but was happy to finish in fifth place with a score of 481 points.  

“I’m very happy with how I went for the first individual competition for the season,” Rousseau said.

“Everything’s there I just need to fine tune everything and get my ends,” he said.

Team rookie Jaxon Bowshire competed in the preliminaries and finished 16th overall.  

On Friday, Rousseau along with Keeney, Nikita Hains and Shixin Li combined to win Australia its first medal of the meet, a bronze in the Mixed 3m &10m Team Event.  

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