Competing in your first international tournament is always a special and nerve-wracking experience. Add to that being a local and having a home crowd rooting for you. “The cheering of the Chinese audience is of course a great encouragement for us, but it also made us quite nervous,” said Chen Jia of China after claiming […]
The Jianyang Cultural and Sports Center Natatorium was crowded on Wednesday, with flashes and cheers aplenty. The main attraction, China’s own Zhang Wenao and Liang Chaohui who were competing in the men’s 3m springboard individual event at the Chengdu FISU World University Games. And yes, as expected, the gold and silver medals went to the […]
China would have been the natural favourite for gold at women’s synchronized 10m platform event on Monday at the Chengdu FISU World University Games, but at the start of the final the American team made it even easier for the local team, by not competing. Eventually only two pairs – China and Republic of Korea […]
The United States Aquatic Sports (USAS) voted last October to designate Don Leas as the 2021 recipient of the R. Max Ritter Award. The R. Max Ritter Award is attributed by the Ritter Family and is presented annually by USAS to the organisation or individual of International Federation of Swimming (FINA) member country who has […]
It is with profound grief that FISU has learned of the passing away of longtime friend, ally, colleague and FISU Technical Diving Committee Chair, Donald Leas. The award-winning diver, coach and leader passed away on Thursday, 25 April, at the age of 82. He had been suffering from an aortic aneurism for several years, […]
GWANGJU – For American diver Bryce Klein diving is the Family Business. Indeed, this student–athlete from Southern Methodist University stepped on the platform in pool first time when he was just five years old. However, his diving romance started much earlier. His grandmother Ida Wilson is a current masters’ diving national champion and […]
As part of 25th Universiade Belgrade 2009, FINA (Federation Internationale de Natation) will organize seminar for diving judges in Belgrade, between July 2nd and July 4th 2009. The purpose of this course is to achieve the following objectives:· enlarge the number of judges and enhance the quality of the existing judges;· create a uniform pattern […]
Today, June 3rd, Donald Leas, the FISU Technical Chair for Diving visited the FISU Headquarters for a working session. On his way to Belgrade for his last inspection visit before the Summer Universiade Mr. Leas had a work meeting with Mark Vandeplas, Director for the Summer Universiade and Michal Buchel, Sports Manager in the Brussels […]
