The “dancers” on the diving stage at the 31st SEA Games

Afternoon 8/5, diving SEA Games 31 started at the Water Sports Palace (My Dinh, Hanoi). At the 31st SEA Games, athletes competing in diving will compete for 8/526 medal sets. The competition contents include 1m soft bridge singles, 3m soft bridge singles, 3m soft bridge doubles and 10m hard bridge doubles. Each event will have 2 sets of medals, including 1 set of medals for the men’s event and 1 set of medals for the women’s event.

On May 8, Vietnam Diving Team launched in a number of contents, which made the atmosphere of the 31st SEA Games stand more exciting. Besides, the beauty of the body and the techniques shown by the athletes in their contest also brought a lot of emotions to the audience.

According to the rules of Diving, the calculation of points for athletes when competing is based on the registration of each athlete’s points. Good, highly qualified athletes often register high scores, through watering movements (reaching 90 degrees will get maximum points). Knees, toes are straight when entering the water. This is an extremely difficult move, requiring athletes to have a strong mentality, perfect technique so that when touching the water, the water does not splash. In addition, athletes also register technical movements in the air. Either do a body bend or a knee hug santo. The body bend is more difficult and complicated, so the score will be higher. The more santo rounds, the higher the score.

Some pictures of VTV News reporters recorded on the match day 8/5:

With outstanding level, the Malaysian duo Chew Yi Wei / Ooi Tze Liang performed competitions with very high technical difficulty. Right in the first part, they won 60.45 points, in the pair of the host Vietnam, they only won 40.80 points.

In the remaining 4 jumps, there was not much change as the Malaysian team kept the score gap and won the gold medal in this content with a total score of 395.79.

Nguyen Tung Duong – Phuong The Anh of Vietnam won the Silver Medal with a total score of 305.64.

The medal ceremony of the 3m soft bridge double jump at the 31st SEA Games.

The content of the women’s 1m singles competition witnessed the spectacular performance of the Malaysian national team player.

Diving is a strong sport of Malaysia, which is invested by this country for Olympic goals.

With 290.45 points, Malaysian athlete Nur Dhabitah Bte Sabri won the first gold medal of the 31st SEA Games.

Athlete Phuong Mai of the Vietnam Diving Team also had a great day of competition.

After 5 jumps, the host athlete Vietnam ranked in 3rd place, winning the bronze medal at the 31st SEA Games.

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