European Games 2023: Moritz Linus Wesemann wins men's 3m springboard to secure Germany quota spot at Paris 2024
The 21-year-old German overcame a slow start to claim his first major medal in Rzeszow, taking victory ahead of French pair Jules Mateo Bouyer and Alexis Jandard.
Diving
Moritz Linus Wesemann sprung a surprise to take men's 3m springboard diving gold at the 2023 European Games in Poland on Saturday (24 June).
Without a major medal before this week, the 21-year-old was fourth in the 1m springboard event at the European Championships, but produced two excellent closing dives to take the title in Rzeszow and secure a quota place for Germany at Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Wesemann, who lay eighth after his first dive, scored a total of 465.40 from his six efforts to take victory.
Silver went to France's Jules Mateo Bouyer (440.15) with teammate Alexis Jandard (430.70) taking bronze.
Italy's Giovanni Tocci led after four rounds and was still in silver medal position despite a lacklustre fifth attempt. But last year's European silver medallist got his last dive all wrong and finished down in seventh.
European Games 2023: Men's 3m springboard final result
- Moritz Linus Wesemann (GER) 465.40
- Jules Mateo Bouyer (FRA) 440.15
- Alexis Jandard (FRA) 430.70
- Ross Haslam (GBR) 403.35
- Oleg Kolodiy (UKR) 402.20
- Matthew Dixon (GBR) 401.05
- Giovanni Tocci (ITA) 400.45
- Jonathan Suckow (SUI) 397.50
- Lorenzo Marsaglia (ITA) 395.70
- Jake Passmore (IRL) 383.70
- Lars Ruediger (GER) 380.00
- Danylo Konovalov (UKR) 371.60