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World Aquatics Championships 2023, Day 6 and Day 7 Recap
Published Thu 20 Jul 2023
Men’s and Women’s 3-Metre Springboard
Our women divers took centre stage on Day 7, with both Georgia Sheehan and Maddison Keeney competing in the 3-Metre Springboard event.
Sheehan was just shy of securing a spot in the top 18 to advance and bowed out of the competition in 19th place before the semi-finals, scoring 274.90 points in the preliminary.
Teammate Keeney impressively placed sixth in both the preliminary round and semi-final with scores of 301.00 and 319.75 respectively.
Keeney will now advance to the Women's 3-Metre Springboard final Friday night at 7pm AEST. Keeney's progression to the Final all but secures Australia its first quota position to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The top 12-placegetters in the Men's and Women's 3-Metre Springboard and 10-Metre Platform secure their country a quota position to next year's Olympics.
On Wednesday, Shixin Li was in action in the Men’s 3-Metre Springboard. Out of a field of 67 athletes, Li was one of 18 to advance to the semi-final, scoring 393.45 points in the preliminary.
Li near equalled his score preliminary score in the semi-final, achieving a total of 394.55. It placed him 15th overall, which was not enough to advance to the final.
Watch all finals on 9Now.
Full results are available on the World Aquatics website
