Leap to glory: Carlson, Macaulay capture Canada's 1st-ever high diving world medals
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Canada won its first-ever high diving medal at the aquatics world championships on Wednesday in Fukuoka, Japan.
It also won its second.
Molly Carlson earned silver while Jessica Macaulay scored bronze in the event in which competitors leap off a 20-metre board and perform twists and tricks in the air before entering the water feet first.
Australia's Rhiannon Iffland grabbed gold for her third straight world championship victory.
The Canadians climbed the podium with four steady dives through two days of competition, culminated in difficult final dives which they each executed well.
Macaulay's last attempt scored 102 points — the best dive until Iffland beat it with the final leap of the competition.
Iffland finished with 357.40 points, ahead of Carlson at 322.80 and Macaulay at 320.95.
Carlson, the 24-year-old from Thunder Bay, Ont., led the World Cup high diving rankings and sat second on the Red Bull tour ahead of her world championship debut. She has over 3.5 million followers on TikTok, where she documents her high-diving career.
Macaulay, 30, won bronze in the event at 2022 worlds while competing for Great Britain before switching allegiance to Canada for what she has said is her final world championship.
Simone Leathead, the youngest athlete on Canada's diving team at 20, narrowly missed the podium in fourth with 312.40 points.
High diving has been contested at worlds since 2013, but is not yet part of the Olympic program.
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