{"id":10247,"date":"2024-08-07T19:29:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/?p=10247"},"modified":"2024-08-08T07:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:13:59","slug":"sa-diver-vincent-advances-to-olympic-3m-springboard-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/?p=10247","title":{"rendered":"SA diver Vincent advances to Olympic 3m springboard semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><strong>PRESS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SA diver Vincent advances to Olympic 3m springboard semifinal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 August 2024 \u2013 South African diver Julia Vincent finished 13<sup>th<\/sup> overall in the 3m springboard preliminaries on Wednesday to book a spot in her first Olympic semifinal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vincent is competing at her third Olympic Games but never made it through the preliminaries in Tokyo or Rio \u2013 finishing well out of contention in both, in 25<sup>th<\/sup> and 29<sup>th<\/sup> place respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-year-old said these would be her last Games and she has set her sights firmly on the final, having reached the 2023 World Championship final last year in Fukuoka and then again this February in Doha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, she got off to a great start, scoring 61.50 off her first of five dives to sit in joint ninth position at the end of the round and lay a great platform for the remainder of the preliminaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vincent needed to finish in the top 18 to progress to tomorrow\u2019s semifinals. Her best dive of the afternoon was her third one \u2013 reversed two and a half somersaults, piked \u2013 for which she scored 63.00. And with scores of 54.00 for her second, 46.50 for her fourth and 58.50 for the fifth, she finished with a total of 283.5 to advance in 13<sup>th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking after the competition, Vincent said she always finds the preliminaries the toughest round of the competition but was thrilled with her performance. \u201cSo much better [than Tokyo]. Big relief off my shoulders. I think the hardest part is just staying steady and making sure that I advance and go on to the next round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying to do, just keep it even keel as much as I can, but I&#8217;m very happy with that\u2026 I felt very, very nervous this morning and then I came out to warm up and I felt pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about her lowest-scoring dive, Vincent explained: \u201cIt\u2019s so frustrating because I love that dive actually. But it&#8217;ll come when it needs to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the great form she has been enjoying in the last year, finishing ninth at the Doha World Championships and 10<sup>th<\/sup> in Fukuoka, Vincent added: \u201cI think I&#8217;m definitely in a different place in my training than I have been, and hopefully my emotional maturity as well, and I&#8217;m really just trying to have a great time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy main goal is to have a great time and really stay present, just take it one dive at a time. So I feel pretty good physically and mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 3m springboard semifinals are scheduled for 10am tomorrow with a top-12 place required to advance to Friday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE SA diver Vincent advances to Olympic 3m springboard semifinal 7 August 2024 \u2013 South African diver Julia Vincent finished 13th overall in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"default","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10248,"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions\/10248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kznaquatics.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}