Rome, 1 August (LaPresse) – Chiara Pellacani and Elisa Pizzini have reached the semi-finals from the three-metre board at the World Diving Championships in Singapore. With a total score of 302.05, the Italian athlete, bronze medallist in the one metre event and gold medallist with Matteo Santoro in the mixed three-metre synchronised event, finished sixth in the qualifying round. Ahead of her were the two Chinese athletes Chen Jia (342.95) and Chen Yiwen (323.30). Next came the American Sophie Verzyl (307.15), the Swiss Michel Heimbert and the Mexican Aranza Vazquez Montano with the same score of 303.45 ahead of Chiara. Pizzini finished in 15th place with a score of 277.70. The semi-finals will take place tomorrow at 9.02 Italian time.