US Diver Colwill Advances to 1-Meter Semifinals at 2007 World Championships

Chris Colwill (Brandon, Fla.) placed fourth in the men's 1-meter preliminaries Tuesday morning at the FINA World Championships to advance to Wednesday morning's semifinals. Colwill, who won a bronze on the event at the 2006 World Cup, scored 387.05 points to advance to the next round. He jumped from seventh place to fourth in the final standings after scoring 72 points on his final dive - a reverse two and a half pike. It was his highest scoring dive of the prelims.

The top 12 divers from the prelims advance to the semis. Colwill's semifinal will include China's He Chong (423.30), Italy's Christopher Sacchin (378.45), Russia's Yury Kunakov (375.10), Sweden's Magnus Frick (370.00) and Spain's Javier Illana Garcia (357.20).

The other semifinal will be led by China's Luo Yutong, who dominated the preliminaries by scoring 466.50 points, 43.20 points higher than his nearest competitor. The top three finishers in each semifinal will advance to Wednesday night's finals. Jevon Tarantino (Boca Raton, Fla.) finished 20th with 324.70 points.

Tuesday's competition continues with women's 10-meter preliminaries at 6:30 p.m. Defending champion Laura Wilkinson (Spring, Texas) and Haley Ishimatsu (Seal Beach, Calif.) will compete for the United States.

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