Mexican Diver Olvera Qualifies for 3m Springboard Semifinals
Mexico's Osmar Olvera advanced to the 3m springboard semifinals at Paris 2024, finishing 5th in the preliminaries. His teammate Kevin Muñoz was 19th, missing the cut but securing a reserve spot. Olvera, a recent Olympic silver medalist, aims for the final.
Diver Osmar Olvera, the new Olympic silver medalist in 3-meter synchronized diving alongside Juan Manuel Celaya, advanced to the semifinal in the individual springboard event at Paris 2024 on Tuesday with the fifth-best score in the preliminary session, after accumulating 444.15 points, while fellow Mexican Kevin Muñoz was one step away from qualifying, after finishing in 19th place, with 362.05 points, to place as first reserve.
Olvera Ibarra, who arrives at the Parisian event as a multi-world medalist and one of the podium contenders at just 20 years of age, recovered after a first round in which he obtained scores between 6.0 and 6.5 with his three-and-a-half-turn jump in C, but in return, he made up for it by equaling the best-evaluated execution of the entire event when he performed the four-and-a-half-turn dive to the front in C, with a difficulty level of 3.8 and with scores of 8.5 during the fifth round.
