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International diving meet in Kazan.
Scholarship holders showed their attitude before big competitions.

International diving meet in Kazan.
Scholarship holders showed their attitude before big competitions.

International diving meet in Kazan.
Scholarship holders showed their attitude before big competitions.

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International diving meet in Kazan.
Scholarship holders showed their attitude before big competitions.
The annual International Tatarstan President's Diving Cup was held in Kazan from November 12 to 15. The competitions were held in a familiar pool for us – in the Aquatics Palace.

In total, about 100 athletes in the Junior category (U-19) from 9 regions of Russia, as well as 3 countries of the world took part in the competition. They are conducted according to the FINA Rules.

The fellows of the FINA Development Center were represented by the following athletes:

Jesus Gonzalez Reyes (Venezuela)
- 1 and 3 m springboard
- 10 m platform

Sebastian Konecki (Lithuania)
- 1 and 3 m springboard

Carlos Daniel Ramos (Cuba)
- 10 m platform

This international cup is undoubtedly a serious diving competition for this fall, as for Jesus and Carlos they are the main rehearsal before the Pan American Games in Cali (Colombia).

On the very first day, Jesus Gonzalez (Venezuela) pleased us with his results on the 1-meter springboard, having overcome the preliminary stage, and took the high 4th place in the final.

On the same day, Sebastian Konecki (Lithuania) was also able to show a decent result for himself with his new diving program and qualify for the final of the competition.

On the third day of the competition, our juniors competed on a 3-meter springboard, both athletes also easily passed the preliminary stages and serious rivals, the best junior divers of Russia, were waiting for Jesus and Sebastian in the final.

As a result, taking 6th and 11th places, respectively.

This is a very worthy result at the competitions, where the list of athletes of the Russian national team for the upcoming World Diving Championship in Kiev was formed.

The final day of the competition gave us a very solid performance of two of our FINA Center fellows on a 10-meter platform.

Carlos Ramos (Cuba) is preparing his experimental complex program for the next big starts and very confidently implemented it, but there was literally one new dive with extremely high difficulty that left Carlos without medals, as a result, the 4th place of the competition, but he definitely received his audience award.

Jesus also participated in all possible disciplines of this Cup of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and at the end of the competition fatigue affected, but he proved himself a fighter and in the final showed a good result for himself, taking 5th place.

But again, these competitions are already in their native pool, can be considered a dress rehearsal for big competitions, where the divers will represent their countries with pride.

The team of the FINA Development Center is also optimistic about the upcoming competitions and is waiting for the most

the main thing for this program is sustainable progress.

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