U.S. diving: Troy Dumais is sixth, Chris Colwill is 12th

BEIJING -- U.S. men's diving got two spots in the three-meter springboard finals Tuesday night at the Water Cube but produced no medals.

Ventura's Troy Dumais, who was sixth at the Sydney and Athens Games, was sixth again. Chris Colwill of Brandon, Fla., in his first Olympics, started the finals in sixth place but slipped to 12th and last after the final six dives.

Dumais worked his way up to fifth after the fourth dive, but then had a bad miss on his fifth dive, a reverse 3 1/2 somersault, that got him only 57.75 points from the six judges and was scored the second-lowest of any dive in the finals, after a 49.0 by Japan's Ken Terauchi on the same dive.

The Chinese took the gold and the bronze, with the gold going to He Chong, who won by 36.25 points over Canada's silver medalist, Alexandre Despatie. The bronze went to Qin Kai. Russian veteran Dimitry Sautin was fourth.

-- Bill Dwyre

Photo: Diver Troy Dumais of Ventura wound up sixth in the men's three-meter springboard final in Beijing. Credit: Mark J. Rebilas / US PRESSWIRE