5th FINA DIVING GRAND PRIX

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Lausanne (SUI)
July 19, 1999

The last of the 14 qualifying events for the 1999 edition of the FINA Diving Grand Prix took place in Rome (ITA) from July7-9, 1999. Following these competitions the first three in each category are the following :

WOMEN -  
3 M SPRINGBOARD - 75 divers ranked - 1. Jingling Guo CHN 260 pts ; 2. Xiao Qiao Liang CHN 205 pts ; 3. Zhang Jing CHN 195 pts.
PLATFORM  - 70 divers ranked - 1. Na Li CHN 240 pts ; 2. Olena Zhupina UKR 235 pts ; 3. Xue Xang CHN 230 pts. 

MEN – 
3 M. SPRINGBOARD - 70 divers ranked - 1. Dimitri Sautin RUS 280 pts ; 2. Zhou Cheng Yu CHN and Xiong Ni CHN 240 pts.
PLATFORM - 73 divers ranked -1. Liang Tian CHN 260 pts ; 2. Dimitri Sautin RUS 255 pts, 3. Xu Xiang CHN 250 pts.
 

For the Super Final which will take place September 11th and 12th , 1999 in Juarez City in Mexico, the eight best divers at the end of these 14 events will participate  with a maximum of two per National Federation. 

3 M SPRINGBOARD WOMEN - Jingling Guo (CHN, 1st), Xiao Qiao Liang (CHN, 2nd), Yulia Pakhalina (RUS, 4th), Irina Lashko (RUS, 6th), Emilie Heymans (CAN, 7th), Anna Lindberg (SWE, 8th), Chantalle Michell (AUS, 9th), Olena Fyodorova (UKR, 10th). Ranked among the top eight divers, but do not qualify: Zhang Jing (CHN, 4th) and Mingxia Fu (CHN, 5th).
PLATFORM WOMEN - Na Li (CHN, 1st), Olena Zhupina (UKR, 2nd), Xue Xang (CHN, 3rd), Myriam Boileau (CAN, 5th), Maria José Alcala (MEX, 6th), Rebecca Gilmore (AUS, 7th), Annuka Walter (GER, 8th), Dolores Saez De Ibarra (ESP, 9th). Ranked among the top eight divers, but do not qualify: Cai Yuyan (CHN, 4th).
3 M SPRINGBOAD MEN - Dimitri Sautin (RUS, 1st), Zhou Cheng Yu (CHN, 2nd), Xiong Ni (CHN, 2nd), Fernando Platas (MEX, 4th), David Pichler (USA, 6th), Patrick Bogart (USA, 7th), Philippe Comtois(CAN, 9th), Andreas Wels (GER, 10th). Ranked among the top eight divers, but do not qualify: Xiao Hai Liang (CHN, 4th) and Yilin Zhou (CHN 8th).
PLATFORM  MEN - Liang Tian (CHN, 1str), Dimitri Sautin (RUS, 2nd), Xu Xiang (CHN, 3rd), Fernando Platas (MEX, 6th), Vladimir Timoshinin (RUS, 7th), David Pichler (USA, 8th), Eduardo Rueda  (MEX, 9th), Leon Taylor (GBR, 10e). Ranked among the top eight divers, but do not qualify: Huang Qiang (CHN, 4th) and Wei He (CHN, 5th).

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