Kim Soo-ji (25-Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall) narrowly missed out on a medal in the women’s 3-meter springboard at the Asian Games .Kim finished fourth in the women’s 3-meter springboard final at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games on Thursday at the Hangzhou Olympic and Sports Center Pool in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, with a total of 288.85 points from the first through fifth dives. Third-place finisher Sayaka Mikami (JPN) scored 304.65 points, 25.80 points higher than Kim. Kim was in third place through the third period. However, she made a mistake in the fourth period on a difficulty level 3.0 performance (305B) of “jumping into a pike position with knees bent and hands behind the legs in a two-and-a-half rotation” (54.00 points) and dropped to fourth place .Mikami scored 66.00 points for her performance in the fourth period on a performance (205B) of “jumping backwards into the pool with her back to the pool and doing two-and-a-half rotations”. The race for third place ended when Mikami scored a high score of 71.40 in the sixth period. No South Korean athlete has won a medal in the women’s 3-meter springboard event, which has been an official event since the 1954 Manila Games .Korean women’s diving sensation Kim Soo-ji was hoping to become the first Korean medalist in the event, but fell one step short. Her teammate Park Ha-rim (25-Gwangju Metropolitan Government) finished seventh with 243.90 points. After winning the 3-meter springboard synchro and individual titles at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, reigning champion Chen Yiwen (CHN) won his second straight Asian Games title (springboard synchro and individual) with 382.00 points. Chang Yani, who teamed up with Chen to win the synchronized 3-meter springboard, finished second in the individual event with 350.25 points. Despite missing out on a medal in the 3-meter springboard, Kim Soo-ji won two bronze medals in the women’s synchronized 3-meter springboard (third) and 1-meter springboard (third).With only the men’s 10-meter platform individual final remaining, Korean diving has won six medals (two silver, four bronze), surpassing the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang (two silver, three bronze) and 2014 Incheon (one silver, four bronze) for the most medals at a single Asian Games. Korean diving won two silver medals in the men’s synchronized 3-meter springboard (Woo Haram and Lee Jae-kyung) and synchronized 10-meter platform (Kim Young-nam and Lee Jae-kyung), and four bronze medals in the women’s synchronized 3-meter springboard (Kim Soo-ji and Park Ha-rm), 1-meter springboard 스포츠토토 (Kim Soo-ji), men’s 1-meter springboard (Woo Haram) and 3-meter springboard (Lee Jae-kyung).
