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GWANGJU, South Korea, July 19-- Chinese divers Shi Tingmao and Wang Han added a gold and a silver medals for team China with stable, world-class performances at the 18th FINA World Championships here on Friday. Shi was in the lead in all her five attempts to take gold in the women's 3m springboard. Her teammate Wang stayed on second position all the way to claim silver in 372.85 points, 13.15 behind the gold medalist. Shi and Wang displayed the top-class, unwavering dives, beating Maddison Keeney of Australia who secured bronze with 367.05. With the additional medals from the diving "dream team," China topped the medal table with 12 golds, seven silvers and one bronze. Russia came next with seven gold and four silver medals, and Germany placed third at 2-1-2. In the men's 10m platform semifinals, China's Yang Jian and Yang Hao recorded a 1-2 finish to take a shot at another gold and silver in the final scheduled for Saturday. Russia maintained dominance in artistic swimming, winning its seventh artistic swimming gold in the women's team free final. Chinese swimmers secured silver, 1.9667 points short of frontrunners Russia, who scored 98.0000. Russia's Mayya Gurbanberdieva and Aleksandr Maltsev qualified for finals in the first position in the mixed duet free artistic swimming. The Italian and Japanese pairs came second and third respectively. In the 25km open water swimming, France's Axel Reymond won the men's race while Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha took gold medal in the women's counterpart. | 
