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Wu Leads World Series Team
Published Wed 07 Mar 2018
Commonwealth Games veteran Melissa Wu is leading a small Australian team to China and Japan over the next fortnight to compete in two diving World Series events in the lead-up to the Gold Coast Games.
Wu, who at 25 will be competing at her fourth Commonwealth Games next month, will be contesting the individual platform events at both World Series, and will also team up with South Australia’s Taneka Kovchenko in the platform synchro, the event they will contest on the Gold Coast.
World 1-metre springboard champion Maddison Keeney will sit out these events due to a minor injury, which will be right for the Games.
Keeney’s Olympic bronze medal partner, Anabelle Smith, is hoping to secure an individual start in the invite only events but will contest the 3-metre synchro with Esther Qin. Georgia Sheehan will also attend to enable her to train alongside Commonwealth Games partner Qin – who will be fine tuning preparations for the Commonwealth Games where she will be the 3m Individual defending Champion.
Many of the athletes expected to contest the medals on the Gold Coast will be competing in Beijing and Fuji, with strong teams named from Great Britain, Canada and Malaysia.
Among the big names will be England’s Tom Daley, Canada’s Jennifer Abel and Malaysia’s Pandelela Pamg.