Luis Uribe (diver)

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FullnameLuis Felipe Uribe Bermudez[1]
Born (2001-09-03) 3 September 2001 (age 24)[2]
Risaralda, Colombia
CountryColombia Colombia
SportDiving
Luis Uribe
Personal information
Full nameLuis Felipe Uribe Bermudez[1]
Born (2001-09-03) 3 September 2001 (age 24)[2]
Risaralda, Colombia
Sport
CountryColombia Colombia
SportDiving
Events
  • 1 m springboard
  • 3 m springboard
  • 3 m synchro
Medal record
Representing  Colombia
Men's diving
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Junior Championships 0 0 1
World Cup 0 0 2
Grand Prix 1 0 0
Pan American Games 0 2 1
CAC Games 0 1 1
South American Games 3 1 0
Total 4 4 5
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place2023 Santiago3 m springboard
Silver medal – second place2023 Santiago3 m synchro
Bronze medal – third place2023 Santiago1 m springboard
Central American and Caribbean Games
Silver medal – second place2023 San Salvador3 m synchro
Bronze medal – third place2023 San Salvador3 m springboard
South American Games
Gold medal – first place2022 Asunción1 m springboard
Gold medal – first place2022 Asunción3 m springboard
Gold medal – first place2022 Asunción3 m synchro
Silver medal – second place2018 Cochabamba3 m springboard
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place2018 Kyiv3 m synchro

Luis Felipe Uribe Bermudez (born 3 September 2001) is a Colombian diver. At the 2022 South American Games, he won gold medals in the 1 metre springboard, 3 metre springboard, and 3 metre synchronised springboard. At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, he placed fourth in the 3 metre springboard and seventh in the 3 metre synchronised springboard. He won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Junior Championships in the 3 metre synchronised springboard.

Uribe was born 3 September 2001 and is based in the Risaralda Department of Colombia.[2][3] He has a sister, Viviana Uribe, who is also a competitive diver.[4]

Career

2018 World Junior Championships

At the 2018 World Junior Diving Championships, held in Kyiv, Ukraine in July, Uribe won a bronze medal in the 3 metre synchronised springboard event with his partner Daniel Restrepo, finishing with a score of 290.88 points, which was less than 10 points behind the gold medalist duo of Henry McKay and Victor Povzner from Canada.[5][6] He also placed sixth in the 1 metre springboard with a score of 489.85 points, twelfth in the mixed team event at 233.70 points, and 20th in the 3 metre springboard with a score of 460.15 points.[6]

2022 World Aquatics Championships

In the preliminaries of the 3 metre synchronised springboard at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, held in Budapest, Hungary in June and July, Uribe and his partner Sebastián Morales, ranked fourth with a score of 387.27 points and qualified for the final.[7] For the final, held later the same day, they placed seventh, scoring a total of 364.62 points for their six dives.[3][8] The following day, in the preliminaries of the 3 metre springboard, he scored 402.55 points to qualify for the semifinals ranking fourth.[9] In the semifinals, he improved his score and ranked as the highest-placed Latin American competitor in the round of competition with a score of 411.70 points and overall fourth-rank.[10][11] He placed fourth in the final the following day, finishing within 17 points of bronze medalist, Jack Laugher of Great Britain, with a score of 457.15 points.[3][12][13][14] From the six dives he executed in the final round of competition, Uribe's highest individual dive ranked third and lowest individual dive ranked seventh, only one diver had a higher ranking lowest individual dive, gold medalist Wang Zongyuan of China whose lowest dive ranked third.[12]

2022 South American Games

2022 South American Games
Gold medal – first place3 m synchro springboard393.06
Gold medal – first place3 m springboard459.05
Gold medal – first place1 m springboard391.05

For the 2022 South American Games, held in October in Asunción, Paraguay, Uribe entered to compete in three events as part of diving competition, the 1 metre springboard, 3 metre springboard, and 3 metre synchronised springboard.[15] In his first event, the 3 metre synchronised springboard on 2 October, he and his partner Sebastián Morales won the gold medal with a score of 393.06 points, finishing over 49 points ahead of the silver medalists from Brazil.[16][17] The following day, he won the gold medal in the 3 metre springboard, scoring 55 points ahead of silver medalist and fellow Colombian Sebastián Morales with a final mark of 459.05 points.[4][18][19][20] The fourth and final day, he won a gold medal in the 1 metre springboard with a final mark of 391.05 points.[21][22][23] His wins helped Colombia rank second in the medal table, only behind Brazil, at the end of 5 October, the fifth day of competition across all sports at the Games.[24]

International championships

References

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