QIU BO equaled the great Greg Louganis’s feat of three world titles Sunday as China finished with 10 medals to underline its domination of the diving competition at the world championships in Kazan, Russia.

    With 13 titles on offer this year due to an extended program, China failed to match its clean sweep of 10 medals at the 2011 championships in Shanghai.

    But China’s nine world medals in Barcelona was bettered when Qiu won the 10-meter platform gold ahead of American David Boudia, who finished behind his archrival for the third world championships in a row.

    Qiu overtook Boudia in the third round before saving his best dive to the last — 107.30 points with a 3.7 degree of difficulty — to equal Louganis’ three consecutive victories for the United States between 1978 and 1986.

    The Chinese finished with 587.00 points, Olympic champion Boudia took silver with 560.20 and Britain Tom Daley claimed bronze.

    The diving program was notable for Kim Kuk Hyang winning North Korea’s first ever world championships title.

    The 16-year-old took gold in the women’s individual 10m platform final with China’s Ren Qian, 14, winning silver.

    (SD-Agencies)