The Cuban couple made up of Anisley García and Carlos Daniel Ramos concluded this Friday in the sixth place of the mixed synchronized platform event, in the diving contest of the FINA World Championship 2022 based in Budapest, Hungary.
The duo thus starred in the best Cuban performance in world competitions of this modality, by signing an accumulated score of 263.91 points, thanks above all to the fact that they knew how to take advantage of the most complex jumps, in accordance with the official site Cubadebate.
In those jumps —with respective degrees of difficulty of 3.3 and 3.2— the judges awarded them scores higher than 62 points, while in the rest of their attempts, Anisley and Carlos Daniel achieved the necessary stability to oscillate between places 5 and 7 throughout the competition.
#Cuba celebrates sixth place in the world championship platform synchronized mixed #FINABudapest2022. Anisley García and Carlos Daniel Ramos happy with another good diving performance. pic.twitter.com/jEttwOgOgF
– Rios Lopez (@RiosLopez3) July 1, 2022
The title went to the Chinese favorites Yu Duan and Qian Ren, with 341.16 points, with a wide advantage over the Ukrainians Sofiia Lyskun and Oleksii Sereda (317.01) and the Americans Delaney Schnell and Carson Tyler (315.90), occupants of the other podium positions. , in that order.
Before this performance, Cuba’s best result in this event in world championships was 14th place, achieved in the event organized in 2017. Historically, the bronze in one of the 2019 Grand Prix also stands out, until now the only Cuban medal in this modality, underlines the publication.
The Cuban diving has starred in a commendable performance in this universal event, and still has the presentation of Carlos Daniel and Luis Gustavo Cañabate in the classification of the individual platform modality.
Both divers have already joined forces as a pair to achieve another meritorious sixth place in the synchronized platform test in the Hungarian event. In addition, Anisley became the first Cuban to advance to a world semifinal in the individual platform event, and Carlos Escalona even reached the same instance in the men’s three-meter springboard competition.
