ONCE again in second place behind the Chinese pair, in this third meet of the FINA 2013 Diving Grand Prix, held in Gatineau, Canada, Cuban diving pair, José Antonio Guerra and Jeinkler Aguirre took silver with a score of 450.09, their highest this season.

Olympic champions Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang again took the top spot on the podium, with 470.25 points, which the Cuban pair could not match, with Colombians Víctor Ortega and Juan Ríos (396.51 points) taking third amongst the seven competing pairs.

Previously, in Madrid, in the first of the circuit’s seven meets, the Cuban pair, with 388.80 points, followed Chinese Siyi Xie and Jian Yang (458.64 points), who subsequently retained their title in Rostock, Germany (482.43).

Their diving sequence was world class. As an example, in the London 2012 Olympic Games they came in fifth with 450.90 points. In this latest meet, in Canada, they again came close to this total score, with a 54.00 and 49.80 in the compulsory dives, recovering later in the four freestyle dives with scores of over eighty in each (86.40; 90.24; 82.17; 87.48).

With their latest performance, they confirmed Guerra’s statements after the World Series Moscow meet: "We feel good, both physically and in terms of our synchronized program. We have slipped a few times and been affected by external things, but our results will improve, as well as our jumps, so that we can attend the World Championships in Barcelona (July 19 - August 4, 2013) in optimum shape.