AIDA Team World Championships, Okinawa: Results CWT day 1

Written by Richard Wonka Sunday, 04 July 2010 09:39

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Athletes and coaches crowding around the announcement sheet The results are out, but only of day one of the Constant Weight event. - Could this be a plot of the Japanese organisers to keep the suspense up?

With a benign, if somewhat choppy, sea that allowed all the divers to compete almost without any current, the first competition day was very clean with lots of white cards and just the occasional yellow for sheer aesthetic appeal.

Yesterday was a busy day for all but the lazy competitors, whose eventful day consisted pretty much of chilling in the water and then being lugged around by their coaches or the assistant judges who were (heroically) working in the transition zone to make sure that everybody got equipped with an official depth gauge and got to their competition line in time.

The line-up:

  • The results of CWT day 1 at the AIDA Team World Championships 2010 Line A: Junko Kitahama, Ryuzo Shinomya, Kerian Hibbs, Mikko Pöntinen, Bjarte Nygard, Misuzu Hirai, MT Solomons, Annabel Edward, Ben Weiss, Olga Suryakova, Andrea Kawabata, Suzanne Pugh

  • The constant weight results of the AIDA Team World Championships 2010

    Line B: Yoshiro Konno, Jesper Stechmann, Morgan Bourc'His (?), Shun Oshima, Aurore Asso, Frédéric Sessa, Jonerik Ekstrom, Hanako Hirose, Barbora Ivanská, Kevin Sorensen, Sam Still, Barbara Jeschke

MT Solomons (UK) gave the offering to Poseidon that seems to have been enough for him to allow the sea to rest: A barotrauma of the ear, but probably that will heal over soon enough and she won't need to equalise for the upcoming events anyway. Bearing it with a smile, she doesn't seem to be affected too much.

The opening diver this year was Junko Kitahama who is not competing this year, but coaching the Japanese team that is showing a lot of spirit. Junko's dive was followed by the deepest dive of the day: Ryuzo Shinomiya collecting 102 very clean points for the Japanese team.

And this just set the theme of the entire day: Lots of nice, clean performances rounded off with a national record for the French set by Aurore Asso with 72m.

Today, we have an unexpected rest day, as the winds have been picking up and the second day of the constant weight event has been postponed. This is likely a welcome chance for most to gather strength for the upcoming days.

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