Canada's Gorup-Paul 11th at diving event

Wegadesk Gorup-Paul of Victoria placed 11th overall at the Canada Cup diving competition Sunday after reaching the semifinals on men's 10-metre tower.

Jose Antonio Gerra of Cuba won the gold in Montreal with 515.19 points, followed by Olympic champion Jia Hu of China (504.30) and Australia's Matthew Mitcham (496.11).

Gorup-Paul, a First Nations Mic Mac whose first name means Northern Lights, was sixth in the preliminaries.

In the semis, the 2004 world junior bronze medallist was fifth in his group.

Montreal's Nicolas Leblanc was 15th, Kevin Geyson of Winnipeg 20th and Maxime Bouchard of Montreal 21st.

In the women's synchronized three-metre, Ting Li and Jingjing Guo of China took top spot with Mandy Moran of Calgary and Martha Dale of Victoria seventh.

In the men's three-metre synchro, He Chong and Feng Wang finished first.

Quebec's Philippe Comtois and Arturo Miranda were 12th after they were marked a missed dive on a technicality that cost them a fourth-place finish.

"What's important is we competed together and did very well," said Comtois. "Our synchronized scores were very high throughout the competition except for one dive.

"Arturo should be back in town permanently later this month and we'll start to train regularly with the focus on the world championships."

The world aquatic championships run July 17-31 in Montreal.

with files from Canadian Sport News