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FINA - 2008 FINA Diving World Series - Tijuana Mexico 24 Apr 2008 00:00
Following the Mexico meeting subsequent events for the three-part series will be held in Sheffield Great Britain May 24-25 and Nanjing China May 30-31.
Among those squaring-off in the mens field will be Chinas formidable Feng Wang Kai Qin and Lu Xin Zhou, Benjamin Swain GBR, Christopher Colwill and Troy Dumais USA, Cubas Jorge Betancourt and Erick Fornaris Canadian champion Alexandre Despatie, and the great Dmitry Sautin RUS.
The womens field is just as impressive featuring competition between Emilie Heymans and Blythe Hartley CAN, Mexicos Paola Espinosa and Tatiana Ortiz, Yulia Pakhalina RUS, and several distinguished Chinese champions such as platform-specialist Ruolin Che, and 3metre legend Jingjing Guo, both of whom are defending champions in this competition. The Series is comprised by the following events for both men and women 3m Springboard, 10m Platform, 3m Springboard Synchro and 10m Platform Synchro.
This is the second year for this prestigious event which promotes awareness about which countries are renowned for the sport and fosters growth of the discipline in both the host nations and other parts of the world. FINA's goal in creating this annual series was to give the finest divers on Earth an exciting and rewarding opportunity to compete against each other more often. Judging from the 2008 entry list which contains some of the most decorated divers currently competing; this competition is now considered an exclusive opportunity for the very best to gauge their abilities.
Like in 2007 the competition will live streamed in the FINA website.
