Saskatoon diver Rylan Wiens added to Canada's medal count at the Paris Olympic games early on Monday morning.
Wiens, a Kinesiology student at the University of Saskatchewan, won a bronze medal with team mate Nathan Zsombor-Murray in the men's synchronized 10-metre platform diving event this morning.
Zsombor-Murray, from Pointe-Claire, Quebec, and Saskatoon's Wiens finished third with a total of 422.13 points over six dives.
The bronze medal is our country's first ever medal in synchronized diving and our first men'd diving medal since Alexandre Despatie's silver medal in the 3m springboard event in Beijing 2008.
The Chinese duo of Junjie Lian and Hao Yang won the gold medal with a score of 490.35 points, while Great Britain's Tom Daley and Noah Williams followed with 463.44.
The day was a grind for the Canadian divers as Zsombor-Murray had trouble with his third and fifth dives, while Wiens struggled slightly with the fourth, most difficult dive a 4 1/2 somersaults in tuck position.
That said, their consistent performances kept them ahead of Mexicans Kevin Berlin Reyes and Randal Willars Valdez, who finished fourth with 418.65 points.
