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Article: Canada's Despatie wins gold in 10-meter platform with newly learned dive
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- AP Worldstream
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- July 19, 2003
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Dateline: BARCELONA, Spain
A dive he learned just four months ago earned Canada's Alexandre Despatie
a gold medal in 10-meter platform diving at the World Swimming Championship
on Saturday.
Despatie scored a stunning 107.16 points for a spectacular backward
2 1/2 somersault with a 2 1/2 twist from the pike position in his
last dive of the final for a total score of 716.91 points against
697.74 for silver medalist Mathew Helm of Australia.
"It's a dive I learned some months ago and fortunately it's turned
out well," said Despatie, who was fourth in the 2000 Sydney Olympics
in this event and a silver medalist at the 2001 world championships.
"It's the ...