Bryan Nickson Lomas (left) and Yeoh Ken Nee show off their bronze after the men’s 3m synchro springboard final yesterday.
AFTER having played second fiddle to the women for two consecutive days, it was the turn of the men to deliver a medal as divers Yeoh Ken Nee and Bryan Nickson Lomas took the men's 3m synchro springboard bronze at the Dr SPM Aquatic Complex yesterday.
Bronze was won courtesy of a "gift" from Australia's Scott Robertson-Grant Nel who messed up their fourth dive and allowed the Malaysians to leapfrog them in the race for the medals.Ken Nee-Bryan scored 404.64 points, way off the 430.64 notched by gold medallists Alexandre Despatie-Reuben Ross of Canada. Silver went to Matthew Mitcham-Warren Ethan of Australia with 424.35.
"We were very lucky as the Australians are normally very solid," said Ken Nee, a silver medallist in Melbourne four years ago.
"The moment Robertson's foot hit the springboard, we knew we had a chance but our coach urged us to stay calm and consider the final dive as a training dive. That is exactly what we did and managed to hang on to third place."Ken Nee admitted that while he had targeted a medal, he wasn't overly hopeful, given the opposition.
"The two Australian pairs are very good and so too the Canadians. They are much better than us in this event but we got lucky today (yesterday)."Malaysia's other pair, Muhammad Fakhrul Md Zain-Ahmad Amsyar Azman finished sixth with 388.47 points.In the men's 10m synchro platform, Ooi Tze Liang and Abdul Rashid Muhammad finished bottom in the four-pairs event with 372.30.
Leong Mun Yee, a silver medallist with Pandelela Rinong in the 10m synchro platform on Sunday, could only finish seventh in the women's 1m springboard with 262.10. Cheong Jun Hoong was 10th with 235.80.
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