{"id":158414,"date":"2025-07-26T17:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/montreals-simone-leathead-wins-high-diving-silver-at-world-aquatics-championship-chat-news-today\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:21:27","slug":"montreals-simone-leathead-wins-high-diving-silver-at-world-aquatics-championship-chat-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/montreals-simone-leathead-wins-high-diving-silver-at-world-aquatics-championship-chat-news-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s Simone Leathead wins high-diving silver at World Aquatics Championship – CHAT News Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

SINGAPORE \u2014 Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Simone Leathead captured silver in the high diving competition at the World Aquatics Championships on Saturday.
The 22-year-old diver amassed a total of 314.50 points over six dives.
It\u2019s the first podium of Leathead\u2019s career.
Australia\u2019s Rhiannan Iffland (359.25) won her fifth world title in the event.
Maya Kelly (310.00) of the United States took bronze.
Molly Carlson, who is from Thunder Bay, Ont., but resides in Montr\u00e9al, finished ninth with 271.90 points.
After her first four of six dives in the 20-metre platform finals, Leathead held provisional tenth place, while Carlson was second. After the fifth round, Carlson was still in second place, only 24.35 points behind Iffland, while Leathead had climbed to fourth.
The athletes\u2019 sixth and final attempts completely shook up the standings: Leathead moved into second place with a dive worth 90.00 points, while Carlson slipped into ninth after receiving her lowest score of the competition (39.90).
The final two rounds of the men\u2019s 27-metre high diving competition will take place on Sunday. After four dives, Quebec City\u2019s Michael Foisy (307.60) holds provisional 15th place, 144.70 points behind Constantin Popovici of Romania, who leads the standings.
In the women\u2019s one-metre springboard event on Saturday, neither Calgary\u2019s Margo Erlam nor Sonya Palkhivala of Pointe-Claire, Que., secured a spot in the finals by finishing in the top twelve. Erlam (234.65) finished 17th in the preliminaries, while Palkhivala (218.75) finished 24th.
In the mixed team competition, Canada\u2019s Carson Paul, Katelyn Fung, Am\u00e9lie-Laura Jasmin, and Matt Cullen placed tenth with a score of 349.20. The Chinese team won the event with 466.25 points. The Canadian team got off to a slow start, placing 21st after the first dive, but later moved up in the standings.
Calgary\u2019s Tazman Abramowicz will be the only Canadian to compete in the men\u2019s one-meter springboard event on Sunday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 26, 2025.

The Canadian Press




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