2023-07-20 07:24:00
the hope of Mexico put in the dives of the Swimming World Cup 2023 has rewards. The divers Osmar Olvera (4th) and Rodrigo Diego Lopez (6th) qualified for the final in the men’s 3-meter springboard individual event and, incidentally, got two more quotas for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for the Mexican delegation. The Colombian Daniel Restrepo (11th), 23 years old, got one for his country.
According to the criteria for obtaining places, the four individual diving events in the Swimming World Cup grant an Olympic quota to the 12 best divers, so it was worth getting into the final to get the ticket.
Osmar Olvera, 19 years old, won silver in the men’s 1 meter springboard event during the 2023 Swimming World Cup (428.85 points). In the men’s individual 3-meter springboard event, Ormar did so with the fourth best score in the semifinal (471.00 points), surpassed by Zongyuan Wang y Daoyi Longas well as by Daniel Goodfellow, From great britain.
Rodrigo Diego López, for his part, passed in sixth position (446.45), while Daniel Restrepo finished in 11th (410.90).
Olvera was the youngest diver in the Mexican delegation in Tokio 2020while López already participated in the Olympic Games of Río 2016. Rodrigo was a silver medalist in the 3-meter springboard and bronze in the 10-meter platform at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing 2014.
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The squares of Mexico and Colombia in nailed
With these other two places, Mexico already has five quotas in diving for the next Olympic Games in paris 2024. The others were obtained by Kevin Berlin y Randal Willarswith bronze in the men’s synchronized 10-meter platform event and both from the Olympic medalists Alejandra Orozco and Gabriela Agundez in the women’s individual 10 meter platform event.
As to Colombia this is the first place for paris 2024 in diving, a discipline in which Daniel Restrepo highlights. He was a gold medalist in the Olympic Games of Buenos Aires 2018 from the men’s 3 meter springboard. Restrepo was also gold at the Pan American Games in Lima 2019 3 meter springboard
The tickets to Paris 2024 in diving are not nominal, but are awarded to the National Olympic Committees. Each NOC will decide next year which athletes to award them to.
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