Ooi Tze Liang dan Chew Yi Wei
The 18-year-old diver made up for his disappointing outing in the 1m discipline yesterday by putting up a spirited display to accumulate 418.75 points over six attempts.
The event was won by Evgeny Kuznetsov of Russia with 496.15 points, followed by Chinese duo Lin Jin (488.90) and Qin Tian (482.20).
Home crowd favourite who was widely tipped to win the event, Ilia Zakharov flopped in his fifth dive and found himself in an unfamiliar sixth spot. The Olympic champion amassed 460.15.
For Yi Wei, it is certainly a morale boosting performance ahead of his World Championships debut in Barcelona in two weeks’ time.
Although his performance was nowhere near the world’s top divers, Yi Wei can be really proud of himself as he executed the lower Degree of Difficulty (DD) routines compared to the rest of the field.
He has no more events to participate in at the Games and will now shift his focus to the world meet.
His teammate Ooi Tze Liang, on the other hand, was eliminated from semifinals earlier in the afternoon after finishing 13th - missing the cut to the final 12 by just a spot.
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