The Canadian reached the final in the diving

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The Canadian Meaghan Benfeito in the semi-finals of the women’s diving platform 10 metres

Budapest — The Canadian Meaghan Benfeito and Olivia Chamandy have reached the final of the tour at the world swimming Championships.

Benfeito has reached the semi-final in fourth place, with 355,15 points. It has been overtaken by the Chinese Yajie Si (382,80) and Qian Ren (367,50), as well as by the North-Korean Kim Kuk-hyang (360,85). Chamandy, with 320,55 points has taken the 10th place. The top 12 divers on the 18 participants qualified for the final, which will be contested Saturday.

Gold for Weertman

At lake Balaton, some 130 kilometers south-west of Budapest, the Dutchman Ferry Weertman has outstripped the American and defending champion Jordan Wilimovsky of a tenth of a second after nearly two hours in the water to put hand on the gold medal in the 10 km open water.

Marc-Antoine Olivier, winner of the 5 km on Saturday, completed the podium at seven-tenths of the winner. He became the first Frenchman to win more than one medal in the open water world Championships.

The medal of Weertman, olympic champion in the discipline, is the first in the netherlands to those in the World.

Bronze medalist at the 2012 London Games, the British Columbian, Richard Weinberger finished 23rd, while Montreal’s Philippe Guertin was signed in 28th place.

Russia is untouchable

Budapest-Russia has won a sixth consecutive gold medal in the competition team technical synchronized swimming, his fourth gold medal at these world Championships. Maria Shurochkina, Vlada Chigireva, Veronika Kalinina Daria Bayandina Anastasia Bayandina, Maryna Goliadkina, Darina Valitova, and Polina Komar came last in the swimming pool and emerged with 96,0109 points. They were ahead of the Chinese (94,2165) and the Japanese (93,1690) on the podium.

The Canadian Janelle Ball, Andrée-Anne Côté, Claudia Holzner, Gwendolyn McGuire, Samantha Nelson, Elizabeth Savard, Jacqueline Simoneau and Kali Wong, have taken the seventh place. The judges awarded 86,2044 points.

Canada in extremis

In water polo, the canadians have enrolled in extremis their first victory of the tournament, scoring in the final second to prevail over China 9-8. This victory carries their record to 1-1 so far. Canada will play its last game of the round robin on Thursday against the Brazilian.