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2004
Olympic Diving Trials Women's Platform Prelims
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Ron
Kontura
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Laura Leads, Livingston
feels right at Home!
After the prelims and semis in St. Louis for the USA Diving
Olympic Trials, Woman’s Platform, there is someone
on top of the leader board who is no stranger to being there,
2000 Olympic Gold Medalist, Laura Wilkinson. From the first
dive to the last, Laura led the event and looked in Gold
Medal form. Laura finished the day with a score of 544.56.
Jessica Livingston from the Woodlands Diving team is in second
place with a score of 502.53. Jessica, who began her diving
career at the Rec Plex in St. Louis with Doug Beavers and
Lighting Diving, felt right at home putting away both 205B
and 305C optional dives for 9”s.
2000 Olympian Sara Hildebrand, Indiana Diving, is currently in 3rd place at 498.81.
Sara was in 6th after the prelims. Sara won the voluntary round edging out Laura
by .57 with a four dive score of 197.67 moving her into the third position heading
into finals on Sunday night. Rounding out the top 5 was Kimiko Soldati, CTC,
in 4th, 492.60 and Brittany Viola, Team Orlando, in 5th, 491.31. Both divers
started off slow missing a few dives in the early rounds, then finished strong.
Kimiko nailed her 5253D for 8’s and Brittany put 3 of her voluntary dives
down for 9’s.
The finals will begin at 5:30pm Sunday night and can be seen on Live on NBC Sports.
-Ron Kontura |
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