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Brandon's Colwill Finishes 12th In 3-Meter Springboard

The Associated Press

Chris Colwill competes in the 3-meter springboard semifinals at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing.

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By BILL WARD

The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 19, 2008

Brandon's Chris Colwill decided to leave it all in the pool during the Olympic men's 3-meter diving finals Tuesday night in Beijing by performing a list of six dives that, when combined, was the highest degree of difficulty of any of his competition.

But the gamble didn't pay off for the Tampa Prep and University of Georgia graduate. The list, which included a dive that had the highest degree of difficulty and has been attempted by only one other athlete during the Games, resulted in a 12th-place finish.

Colwill had improved to 11th place before his sixth and final dive, but on his difficult finale - a reverse 2½ with 2½ twists - he scored a relatively low mark of 66.30 and wound up 12th with total of 425.90.

China's He Chong was nearly flawless in the finals, scoring four of his six dives over 90 and a stunning 100.70 on his sixth. He won the gold medal with a combined score of 572.90, a comfortable 36.25 points ahead of silver medalist Alexandre Despatie of Canada and 42.80 ahead of He's Chinese teammate Qin Kai.

The other American in the finals, Troy Dumais, was sixth with 472.50.

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