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Chinese Olympic champion Hu Jia leads 10m platform at Universiade |
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21:07, August 14, 2007 |
Athens Olympics gold-medalist Hu Jia of China was a class of his own as he led the men's 10m platform by a clear margin in Tuesday's diving competition of the Bangkok Universiade.
Hu, who collected 499.50 points in the semi-finals, had the highest score of the day by 100.30 points in the preliminary round.
Five of the seven referees awarded him the maxium 10 points when the 23-year-old veteran made an almost perfect 307C jump ( reverse 3 1/2 somersault).
Russian Oleg Vikulov was second by 459.10 points followed by Jeffrey Kinzbach of the United States by 457.60 points.
The final will be competed on Saturday.
Source: Xinhua
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