Canadas divers were left empty handed as China continued its unmatchable gold-medal streak through the first day of the World Series competition in Dubai on Friday.
Matija Nastasic Manchester City Jersey . In the mens individual 3m springboard event, Alexandre Despatie was unable to repeat his recent bronze-medal performance in London. Fresh off a third-place finish at Februarys World Cup, the 26-year-old from Laval, Que., posted a score of just 406.60 on Friday -- the lowest of the semi-final round. He did not advance to the final. "I had a bad day in the pool today..." the two-time Olympic silver medallist posted to Twitter on Friday afternoon. "There is LOTS of work to do until london (Olympics).. But I already knew that!! Keep positive and work through!!" The Dubai event is the first in a four-part series of invitational competitions this season. To qualify, individual divers must finish in the top-eight at the World Championships and synchronized pairs must finish top-six. Despatie sat out last years Worlds with a knee injury, but received a special invitation to compete in the 3m springboard following his bronze-medal return to competition last month. In the final, reigning world and Olympic 3m champion He Chong won the first of the days four gold medals for China with a decisive 522.25 score. Russias Ilya Zakharov finished almost 30 points behind in second place and Qin Kai, also of China, finished third. In the mens synchronized 10m event, Cao Yuan and Zhang Yangquan picked up another gold for China, beating out Oleksandr Gorshkovozov and Oleksandr Bondar of Ukraine. Canadians Emilie Heymans and Jennifer Abel, world silver medallists in the womens synchronized springboard, finished fifth out of six teams on Friday. The pair scored 285.00 -- well under the 321.90 points that earned them silver in London. Even so, Heymans and Abel finished just 5.40 behind bronze-medallists Anna Pysmenska and Olena Fedorova of Ukraine. Chinas Wu Minxia and He Zi earned gold with 329.40, while Christina Loukas and Kassidy Cook, of the United States, took silver with 297.72. Meaghan Benfeito was the only Canadian to advance out of the womens individual 10m platform semis, but she struggled in the final. The 23-year-old from Montreal, Que., under-rotated several of her dives on her way to a fifth-place finish. Chen Ruolins gold medal in the event capped off Chinas golden day while Mexicos Paola Espinosa earned silver and Pandelela Rinong Pamg, of Malaysia, took bronze. Roseline Filion, who will compete alongside Benfeito in Saturdays synchronized 10m platform competition, did not qualify for the individual final. Abel will also get a second chance at a podium finish on Saturday when she competes in the womens individual 3m springboard. The 20-year-old from Laval, Que., picked up her first individual world championship medal -- bronze -- in Shanghai last year. She continued her success with a Grand Prix win in Germany last month.
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