Silver for Mears and Laugher

9 Mar 2017

Olympic Champions Chris Mears and Jack Laugher continued their silver streak at the FINA/NVC Diving World Series with their second place finish in Guangzhou. 

Mears and Laugher won silver in the first leg in Beijing and went into Guangzhou with confidence and showed their strength from the start of the competition with a score of 104.40 points for their required dives. 

They moved into second place in the third round and remained in that place throughout the rest of the competition. 

The world bronze medallists scored 86.58 points for their penultimate and hardest dive - the Front 2 1/2 Somersaults triple twists piked. 

They finished the competition with their highest score of 92.34 for the Front 4 1/2 Somersaults tucked which gave them a final score of 450.60 points. 

China's Cao Yuan and Xie Siyi won gold with a score of 466.02 while Russia's Ilya Zakharov and Evgenii Kuznetsov took bronze with 430.86 points.