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Femmes, tour, préliminaires
1- Li Na, Chine, 338.43
2- Cai Yuyan, Chine, 327.87
3- Olena Zhupina, Ukraine, 308.07
4- Rebecca Gilmore, Australie, 306.63
5- Anne Montminy, CANADA, 283.89
6- Émilie Heymans, CANADA 283.08
Femmes, tour, finale
1- Li Na, Chine, 552,72
2- Anne Montminy, CANADA, 525,24
3- Cai Yuyan, Chine, 519,09
4- Émilie Heymans, CANADA 509,94
Hommes, 3 mètres synchronisé, préliminaires, 17 équipes
1- Ni Xiong - Hailiang Xiao, Chine, 319.14
2- Dmitri Sautin-Lissovsky, Russie, 314.52
3- Ruiz-Ramirez, USA, 304.29
10- Philippe Comtois-Étienne Gauthier, CANADA, 275.16
Hommes, 3 mètres synchronisé, finale
1- Ni Kiong - Xiao Hailiang, Chine, 353,70
2- Steven Barnett - Dean Pullar, Australie, 323,58
3- Eduardo Rueda - Fernando Platas, Mexique, 320,79
4- Ruiz-Ramirez, USA, 318.99
5- Waterfield-Ali, Grande-Bretagne, 311.82
6- Dmitri Sautin-Lissovsky, Russie, 305.37
12- Philippe Comtois - Étienne Gauthier, CANADA, 269.76
Sydney, Australie, 26 janvier 2000
La plongeuse Émilie Heymans a terminé au 4e rang à la tour de 10 mètres de la Coupe du monde de Sydney. Pour la première fois en compétition internationale, Heymans a effectué son 2 1/2 arrière carpé avec 1 1/2 vrille, un plongeon avec coefficient de difficulté de 3,4, le plus élevé en compétition féminine. Au total, elle a amassé 509,94 points. La Chinoise Li Na (552,72pts) a gagné la médaille d'or. Anne Montminy (525,24pts), de Pointe-Claire, a mérité l'argent et la Chinoise Cai Yuyan (519,09pts), le bronze.
« Je n'ai pas tellement bien plongé en préliminaires et en demi-finale, mais je suis satisfaite de ma finale, a expliqué Heymans. J'ai obtenu des 8 pour mon nouveau plongeon : c'est très bien. Ma seule déception est mon total de 509,94 points. Avec 510, j'aurais mérité un de mes critères de l'AOC. »
Chez les hommes, Philippe Comtois et Étienne Gauthier participaient à l'épreuve du trois mètres synchronisé, une nouvelle discipline olympique. Le duo du Club CAMO a mérité le 12e rang alors que les huit premiers méritaient un laissez-passer pour les Jeux olympiques. «Étienne et moi avons bien plongé, mais il nous manquait de gros plongeons, a expliqué Comtois. Je crois que le problème viens du fait que le Canada s'y est pris trop tard pour le synchro. La plupart des huit pays qualifiés pour les Olympiques sont ceux qui pratiquent cette spécialité depuis qu'elle a vu le jour. »
Jeudi, l'épreuve individuelle masculine du 3 mètres ainsi que le 10 mètres synchronisé féminin sont au programme.
Texte : Daniel Aucoin
L'Agence DIAPO
danaucoin@videotron.ca
26 janvier 2000
SYDNEY (Australie), 26 janvier 2000 (d'après AFP et NTR)
La plongeuse Anne Montminy, de Pointe-Claire, a obtenu mercredi en Coupe du monde à Sydney la médaille d'argent de la compétition féminine à la tour de dix mètres. La médaille d'or est allée à la Chinoise Na Li, tandis que la Québécoise Emilie Heymans a terminé au quatrième rang. Emilie en a épaté plusieurs avec des plongeons relativement complexes.
La Chine a remporté une autre médaille d'or avec la paire Ni Xiong - Xiao Hailiang (synchronisé messieurs) à la piscine olympique de Sydney. Dans l'épreuve synchronisée, les Québécois Philippe Comtois et Étienne Gauthier ont terminé au 12e rang.
La journée de jeudi sera consacrée aux finales messieurs (3 m) et dames (synchronisé).
Les résultats :
Haut vol dames (10 m)
1. Na Li (Chine) 552,72
2. Anne Montminy (Canada) 525,24
3. Yuyan Cai (Chine) 519,09
Messieurs (3 m synchronisé)
1. Ni Kiong - Xiao Hailiang (Chine) 353,70
2. Steven Barnett - Dean Pullar (Australie) 323,58
3. Eduardo Rueda - Fernando Platas (Mexique) 320,79
27 janvier 2000
Elle rafle l'argent à la Coupe du monde de plongeon
SYDNEY, Australie (PC)
Anne Montminy, de Pointe-Claire, a remporté hier la médaille d'argent à la tour de 10 mètres en Coupe du monde de plongeon.
La médaille d'or est allée à la Chinoise Li Na.
La championne du circuit Grand Prix en 1999 l'a emporté grâce à un score de 552,72 points.
Montminy, qui aura 25 ans demain, a accumulé 525,24 points.
« C'était comme les Jeux olympiques, a déclaré Montminy, qui a pris part aux deux dernières olympiades d'été. Habituellement, dans une compétition internationale du genre, il manque toujours quelques-unes des meilleures plongeuses au monde. Mais ici, toutes les meilleures y étaient. Je suis très satisfaite de mon résultat. »
Dans la finale (comprenant cinq tours), elle a présenté une liste très difficile et a été tout simplement exceptionelle. Elle a marqué au moins des notes de 8,0 des juges (sur une possibilité de 10) à chacun de ses plongeons.
« Je ne pensais pas pouvoir gagner l'argent, a admis Montminy, sept fois championne canadienne. Le dernier plongeon de Yuyan possédait un degré de difficulté très élevé. Il fallait que je sois parfaite. »
Heymans 4e
La Montréalaise Émilie Heymans a terminé au quatrième rang pour la deuxième année de suite, après avoir réalisé des plongeons relativement complexes.
Heymans, la vedette montante de l'équipe canadienne à 18 ans, a également connu un parcours spectaculaire en finale, à l'exception d'un plongeon.
Elle a marqué des notes de 6,0 sur un plongeon en équilibre et triple saut périlleux, ce qui a possiblement coûté une autre médaille pour le Canada. Elle est la seule au monde qui éxécute ce plongeon.
« Ce n'est pas encore un plongeon très régulier pour moi », a mentionné Heymans, championne du monde junior en 1997 et médaillée d'or aux Jeux panaméricains l'été dernier.
« Ça fait seulement deux ans que je le pratique et ça prend beaucoup de temps avant de le maîtriser. Mais je l'ai quand même assez bien réussi aujourd'hui (hier). C'est un plongeon difficile, donc je récolte beaucoup de points. »
Au trois mètres synchro, les Montréalais Philippe Comtois et Étienne Gauthier ont terminé 12e et ont raté la qualification olympique pour le Canada par quatre positions.
« C'était notre première expérience en synchro dans une compétition majeure», a déclaré l'entraîneur en chef de l'équipe canadienne Mitch Geller.
« Philippe et Étienne ont fourni un bel effort et ont démontré beaucoup de potentiel. Mais nos chances de se qualifier pour les Jeux olympiques sont minces. »
La compétition se poursuit aujourd'hui avec le trois mètres masculin et la tour synchro féminine.
Le 26 janvier 2000
SYDNEY, Australie-Anne Montminy, de Pointe-Claire, a remporté la médaille d'argent à la plateforme de 10 mètres en Coupe du monde de plongeon. La médaille d'or est allée à la Chinoise Li Na.
La championne du circuit Grand Prix en 1999 l'a emporté grâce à un pointage de 552,72 points. Montminy, qui aura 25 ans demain, a cumulé 525,24 points.
"C'était comme les Jeux olympiques, a déclaré Montminy, qui a pris part aux deux dernières olympiades d'été. Habituellement, dans une compétition internationale du genre, il manque toujours quelques-unes des meilleures plongeuses au monde. Mais ici, toutes les meilleures y étaient. Je suis très satisfaite de mon résultat."
Dans la finale (comprenant cinq tours), elle a présenté une liste très difficile et a été tout simplement exceptionelle. Elle a marqué au moins des 8,0 des juges (sur une possibilité de 10) sur tous ses plongeons.
"Je ne pensais pas pouvoir gagner l'argent, a admis Montminy, sept fois championne canadienne. Le dernier plongeon de Yuyan possédait un degré de difficulté très élevé. Il fallait que je sois parfaite."
La Montréalaise Emilie Heymans a terminé au quatrième rang pour la deuxième année de suite, après avoir réalisé des plongeons relativement complexes.
Heymans, la vedette montante de l'équipe canadienne à 18 ans, a également connu un parcours spectaculaire en finale, à l'exception d'un plongeon.
Elle a marqué des 6,0 sur un plongeon en équilibre et triple saut périlleux, ce qui a possiblement coûté une autre médaille pour le Canada. Elle est la seule au monde qui éxécute ce plongeon.
"Ce n'est pas encore un plongeon très régulier pour moi", a dit Heymans, championne du monde junior en 1997 et championne des Jeux panaméricains cet été.
"Ça fait seulement deux ans que je le pratique et ça prend beaucoup de temps avant de le maîtriser. Mais je l'ai quand même assez bien réussi aujourd'hui. C'est un plongeon difficile, donc je récolte beaucoup de points."
Au trois mètres synchro, les montréalais Philippe Comtois et Étienne Gauthier ont terminé 12ème et ont raté une qualification olympique pour le Canada par quatre positions.
"C'était notre première expérience en synchro dans une compétition majeure", a déclaré l'entraîneur-chef de l'équipe canadienne Mitch Geller.
"Philippe et Étienne ont fourni un bel effort et ont démontré beaucoup de potentiel. Mais nos chances de se qualifier pour les Jeux olympiques sont minces."
La compétition se poursuit aujourd'hui avec le trois mètres masculin et la tour synchro féminine.
27 janvier 2000
Montminy's silver medal could be a sign of things to come
Pointe Claire's Anne Montminy posted the best international result of her career yesterday, finishing second on the women's 10-metre tower, while Emilie Heymans of Montreal's CAMO club placed fourth at the FINA World Cup of Diving.
The World Cup, being held at the 2000 Olympic Pool, is the most important competition in diving after the Olympics and world championships.
"This was like an Olympic Games," said Montminy, who competed at both the 1992 and '96 Games. "The very best are here and we are at the Olympic Pool. They ran the event just like the Olympics are going to be run.
"Usually when we go to an international meet, there are always a few big names missing. But for this meet, everybody was here. I'm very excited by this result."
Li Na of China, the over-all champion on the 1999 Grand Prix circuit, won the gold medal with 552.72 points. Montminy, who turns 25 tomorrow, followed at 525.24. Cai Yuyan of China was third at 519.09 and Heymans was fourth at 509.94.
In the five-round final, Montminy put together the most challenging diving list of her career and was simply exceptional, never scoring lower than 8.0s out of possible 10 on any of her dives. The battle for the silver went down to the final round as both Montminy and Yuyan were virtually tied.
Montminy uncorked an extraordinary back 1 1/2 with 2 1/2 twists on her last dive, which earned her a string of 9.0s.
"I didn't think I could catch (Yuyan) on the last dive because she had a higher degree of difficulty than I did," said Montminy, a seven-time national champion. "I knew the last one would have to be almost perfect for me."
Heymans, 18, finished fourth for the second straight year. She was also spectacular, but her hair-raising armstand backward triple somersault likely cost her a medal when she averaged 6.0s. She is the only female diver in the world who attempts the dive.
The competition for both Montminy and Heymans got off to a rocky start. After three rounds in the preliminaries, they were 19th and 20th, respectively.
"It was very nerve-wracking at the start in the prelims," said Montminy, a lawyer-to-be who delayed a bar exam so she could attend the competition.
"There were so many entries that we waited about 45 minutes between dives."
In the men's 3-metre synchro event, the Montreal pair of Philippe Comtois and Etienne Gauthier finished 12th. They were looking for a top-eight finish to qualify an Olympic berth for Canada.
Competition continues today with the men's 3-metre and the women's synchro 10-metre.
Benjamin Long
The 10-metre platform diving has to be one of the most thrilling — and terrifying — of all the events at the Summer Olympic Games. You don't have to suffer from vertigo to find yourself catching breath as someone teeters from what looks like a three-storey building and then drops down to the cool blue water so far below.
And when a diver goes to the very end of the platform, plants their hands down and slowly, painstakingly, pushes themselves up into handstand, balancing themselves on the edge of the precipice, it is almost too much to bear.
So when one diver — in the final of the women's 10m event at the XII FINA Diving World Cup — wobbled horribly in her handstand and almost fell, the more feint-hearted of us in the crowd couldn't help but let out a very audible gasp. Transfixed, we couldn't bear to watch, but couldn't turn away.
The diver, Austria's Anja Richter, recovered and somehow managed to pull off her dive, although she was deducted two points from her score for her troubles.
One diver who never looked like wobbling was China's Li Na. Li led the competition from start to finish, from the preliminaries through the semi-final and after every round of the final. She took the gold medal comfortably, finishing with a combined score of 552.72, more than 27 points in front of the silver medallist, Canada's Anne Montminy, who ended on 525.24 points.
Li scored 70+ points on four of her five dives in the final and underlined her dominance with her last dive of the evening, a forward 3 ½ somersault pike, which scored 79.20 — the top-scoring dive of the competition.
Underlining China's dominance of women's diving, Li's teammate Cai Yuyan finished in third place on 519.09. Cai was sitting in second place after the preliminaries and semifinal and for most of the final.
Cai's seesawing battle with Montminy for the silver medal was the most engrossing struggle of the evening. Montminy edged in front after the third round, 381.12 to 380.13, but Cai responded with her best dive of the evening in the following round to lead by the barest of margins, 455.73 to 455.52. Cai scored poorly on her final dive, however, and had to be satisfied with bronze. The Chinese diver was understandably disappointed with the result. "Today's performance was less pleasing than usual," she said. "My training has to be improved."
Another Canadian, Emilie Heymans, finished in fourth, and going on tonight's performances, if anyone is going to challenge the Chinese divers at the Olympic Games in September, it will be these Canadians. Heymans boasted the second best scoring individual dive of the night (78.54), which was also, not incidentally, the most difficult dive attempted by anyone: a backward 2 ½ somersault with 1 ½ twists in the pike position, with a degree-of-difficulty of 3.4.
In fifth and sixth place were two Australian divers, Rebecca Gilmore and Loudy Tourky respectively, both of whom showed they could match it with the top divers for style and execution, if not consistency. Both divers boasted a couple of high-scoring dives on their cards and will hope to build on this performance for the Olympic Games.
Gilmore is hoping hometown advantage might mean even more at Games time. "I train here so it's definitely an advantage, especially coming into the Olympics."
Gilmore also thought the rowdy crowd might have some influence on the judges. "Yeah, I think they're scared of being killed," she deadpanned. "I think there is a factor."
More gold for China in men's 3m synchro
Here's a bold prediction: the synchronized diving events are going to be one of the hits of the 2000 Olympic Games. It's a little bit Hollywood to be sure — watching these chisel-jawed leading men execute the trickiest of manoeuvres with nonchalant grace and devil-may-care grins — but it's a sure-fire crowd pleaser.
The crowd, roughly the same size as that for the women's 10m final, pumped out at least twice as many decibels during the final of the men's synchronized 3-metre diving event. One reason for their enthusiasm for the synchronized event might be that while it's quite hard for the lay person to understand how exactly a solo dive is scored, any Tom, Dick or Harry with reasonable eyesight can tell straight away whether two divers are synchronised or not.
The two Chinese divers, Xiong Ni and Xiao Hailiang, looked like winners from the start and thrilled the crowd with their acrobatics and split-second timing. The biggest cheer of the night, however, came after the Australian duo, Dean Pullar and Steven Barnett, nailed their final dive to leapfrog from fourth to second position.
The Aussies had no chance of overhauling the Chinese pair by that stage — the Chinese ended up with 353.70 points to the Australians 323.58 — but were well-pleased with their silver medals.
Taking the bronze medal were the Mexican twosome, Fernando Platas and Eduardo Rueda, who scored consistently well throughout the five rounds of the final to finish on 320.79. It ended up a disappointing night for the USA duo, Mark Ruiz and Rio Ramirez, who looked to be certainties for either the silver or bronze medal for most of the night, only to score poorly on their final dive and drop from second to fourth.
January 26, 2000
SYDNEY, Australia--Anne Montminy of Pointe-Claire, Que., posted the best international result of her career Wednesday finishing second on women's 10-metre tower while Emilie Heymans of Montreal was fourth at the FINA World Cup of Diving.
The World Cup is the most important competition in diving after the Olympics and world championships. The event is being held at the Olympic pool for the 2000 Games.
"This was like an Olympic Games," said Montminy, who competed at both the 1992 and 1996 Games. "The very best are here and we are at the Olympic pool. They ran the event just like the Olympics are going to be run. Usually when we go to an international meet there are always a few big names missing. But for this meet, everybody was here. I'm very excited by this result."
Li Na of China, the overall champion on the 1999 Grand Prix circuit, won the gold medal with 552.72 points. Montminy, who'll turn 25 on Friday, followed at 525.24, Cai Yuyan of China was third at 519.09 and Emilie Heymans of Montreal fourth at 509.94.
In the five round final, Montminy put together the most challenging diving list of her career and was simply exceptional. She never scored lower than 8.0's out of possible 10 on any of her dives. The battle for the silver went down to the final round as both Montminy and Yuyan were virtually tied.
Montminy uncorked an extraordinary back 1 1/2 with 2 1/2 twists on her last dive which registered a string of 9.0's.
"I didn't think I could catch her on the last dive because she (Yuyan) had a higher degree of difficulty than I did," said Montminy, a seven-time national champion. "I knew the last one would have to be almost perfect for me."
Heymans, 18, finished fourth for the second straight year. She was also spectacular but her hair raising armstand backward triple somersault likely cost her a medal when she averaged 6.0's. She is the only female diver in the world that attempts the dive.
"The armstand dive hasn't been a consistent one for me," said Heymans, the 1997 world junior champion and Pan Am Games champion this past summer. "I've only been doing it for a couple of years and it takes a very long time to master. I've scored well on it several times and still today it wasn't too bad. Because it's difficult I still scored a lot of points."
The competition for both Montminy and Heymans got off to a rocky start. After three rounds in the preliminaries they were 19th and 20th respectively.
"It was very nerve wracking at the start in the prelims," said Montminy, who delayed a bar exam so she could attend the competition. "There were so many entries that we waited about 45 minutes between dives. So we'd look at the scoreboard and see ourselves 19th and 20th. It was upsetting to contemplate for that long how awful things were going. Thankfully it all went well afterwards."
On men's three-metre synchro, the Canadian pair of Philippe Comtois and Etienne Gauthier, both of Montreal, finished 12th. They were looking for a top-eight to qualify an Olympic spot for Canada in the event.
"This is our first experience with synchro diving at a major meet," said Canadian national team coach Mitch Geller of Victoria. "Philippe and Etienne put in a great effort and showed great potential but our chances look slim to make the Olympics in the event."
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