The third time’s the charm for Laura Sánchez Soto…
Competing in her third consecutive Olympics, the 26-year-old Mexican diver earned the bronze in the women’s diving 3m springboard final on Sunday at the 2012 Olympic Games.
In what turned out to be a close battle for the bronze, Sánchez proved to be thismuch better than Italy’s Tania Cagnotto.
Heading into their final dive, the Italian diver—competing in her fourth Olympics—looked like the odds on favorite to take third place. But Sanchez won over the judges with an exceptional forward 2 1/2 somersault with one twist pike to finish a mere .20 points ahead of Cagnotto.
China’s Wu Minxia won the gold medal, while her countrywoman He Zi won the silver. It was Wu’s record-tying sixth Olympic diving medal.
It’s almost a case of déjà vu as Mexico’s Paola Espinosa and Alejandra Orozco earn Mexico the country’s second silver medal in diving in two days, after Iván Garcia and Germán Sánchez claimed a similar diving silver on Monday. Espinosa and her 15-year-old partner put on an impressive display to…
It’s another silver for Germán Sánchez… The 24-year-old Mexican diver, nicknamed “Duva,” claimed the silver medal in the Men's Individual 10m Platform diving final at the 2016 Rio Games. China's Chen Aisen emerged from a tightly contested field to claim the gold medal with 585.30 points. Sanchez won the silver with 532.70…
They may have gotten off to a sluggish start, but German Sanchez and Iván García threw caution to the wind in the final rounds to capture Mexico's first medal at the 2012 Olympic Games… The 20-year-old and 18-year-old Mexican divers went all out on Monday with a very difficult dive and…
