Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's synchronized 10 metre platform
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The women's synchronized 10 metre platform was one of eight diving
events included in the Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics
programme and one of the four new events added for the 2000 games since a change was made in 1924
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The competition was held as an outright final:
Final: 28 September — Each pair of divers performed five dives freely chosen from the five diving groups, with two dives limited to a 2.0 degree of difficulty and the others without limitation. Divers could perform different dives during the same dive if both presented the same difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the score attained by the pair after all five dives had been performed.
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
events included in the Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, eight diving events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized variants for each of the traditional events...
programme and one of the four new events added for the 2000 games since a change was made in 1924
Diving at the 1924 Summer Olympics
At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, five diving events were contested. The competitions were held from Monday, July 14, 1924 to Sunday, July 20, 1924.-Medal summary:...
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The competition was held as an outright final:
Final: 28 September — Each pair of divers performed five dives freely chosen from the five diving groups, with two dives limited to a 2.0 degree of difficulty and the others without limitation. Divers could perform different dives during the same dive if both presented the same difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the score attained by the pair after all five dives had been performed.
Medalists
Gold:  |
Silver:  |
Bronze:  |
| Na Li and Sang Xue, | Émilie Heymans Émilie Heymans Émilie-Joane Heymans is a Canadian diver. Born in Brussels, Belgium and raised in Greenfield Park , a suburb of Montreal, she started diving in 1993, at age 11... and Anne Montminy Anne Montminy Anne Katherine Montminy is a former competitive diver and, now, a lawyer.- Diving career :... , |
Rebecca Gilmore Rebecca Gilmore Rebecca Ellen Gilmore is an Australian diver who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics with Loudy Tourky. She also placed 18th in the 3 m springboard competition, and 11th in the 10 m platform.... and Loudy Tourky Loudy Tourky Loudy Wiggins is an Australian diver.She was born in Haifa, Israel and is of a Palestinian background. She was born to Butros and Afaf Tourky. They came to Australia when Loudy was three. Loudy has commented, "I will always have a bond with Palestine... , |
Results
- Values in brackets represent the aggregate score and ranking at the end of the dive.
| Rank | Divers | NOC | Dive 1 | Dive 2 | Dive 3 | Dive 4 | Dive 5 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total | |||
| 1 | Na Li and Sang Xue |
55.80 | 1 | 58.20 (114.00) |
1 (1) |
78.12 (192.12) |
1 (1) |
81.00 (273.12) |
1 (1) |
72.00 | 3 | 345.12 | |
| 2 | Émilie Heymans Émilie Heymans Émilie-Joane Heymans is a Canadian diver. Born in Brussels, Belgium and raised in Greenfield Park , a suburb of Montreal, she started diving in 1993, at age 11... and Anne Montminy Anne Montminy Anne Katherine Montminy is a former competitive diver and, now, a lawyer.- Diving career :... |
53.40 | 2 | 47.40 (100.80) |
6 (6) |
65.25 (166.05) |
3 (3) |
71.28 (237.33) |
2 (2) |
74.70 | 1 | 312.03 | |
| 3 | Rebecca Gilmore Rebecca Gilmore Rebecca Ellen Gilmore is an Australian diver who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics with Loudy Tourky. She also placed 18th in the 3 m springboard competition, and 11th in the 10 m platform.... and Loudy Tourky Loudy Tourky Loudy Wiggins is an Australian diver.She was born in Haifa, Israel and is of a Palestinian background. She was born to Butros and Afaf Tourky. They came to Australia when Loudy was three. Loudy has commented, "I will always have a bond with Palestine... |
49.20 | 6 | 47.40 (96.60) |
6 (7) |
63.84 (160.44) |
4 (6) |
66.36 (226.80) |
3 (4) |
74.70 | 1 | 301.50 | |
| 4 | Marion Reiff and Anja Richter-Libiseller |
51.00 | 3 | 50.40 (101.40) |
5 (5) |
61.32 (162.72) |
6 (5) |
64.68 (227.40) |
4 (3) |
66.60 | 5 | 294.00 | |
| 5 | Jenny Keim and Laura Wilkinson Laura Wilkinson Laura Ann Wilkinson is a former American diver.- Background :As a child, Wilkinson was a gymnast, but had to give up on the sport after a growth spurt during puberty made her too tall to continue. It was then that she turned to diving. Wilkinson is a 2001 graduate of the University of Texas, where... |
49.20 | 6 | 52.80 (102.00) |
2 (3) |
69.30 (171.30) |
2 (2) |
55.44 (226.74) |
7 (5) |
64.68 | 7 | 291.42 | |
| 6 | Evgeniya Olshevskaya and Svetlana Timoshinina |
50.40 | 4 | 51.60 (102.00) |
4 (3) |
61.32 (163.32) |
6 (4) |
55.68 (219.00) |
5 (6) |
69.30 | 4 | 288.30 | |
| 7 | Odile Arboles-Souchon and Julie Danaux |
50.40 | 4 | 52.20 (102.60) |
3 (2) |
56.70 (159.30) |
8 (7) |
55.68 (214.98) |
5 (7) |
62.16 | 8 | 277.14 | |
| 8 | María Alcalá and Azul Almazán |
42.60 | 8 | 46.80 (89.40) |
8 (8) |
63.84 (153.24) |
4 (8) |
45.36 (198.60) |
8 (8) |
65.70 | 6 | 264.30 |