Australia's evergreen diving star Melissa Wu has endured a rare off-day at the world aquatics championships in Doha, finishing last of the 12 competitors in a 10 metre platform final dominated again by two of China's brightest Olympic stars.
In 2021, Wu had finished third behind the then prodigious 14-year-old champion Quan Hongchan and 15-year-old Chen Yuxi in the Tokyo Olympic final but less than three years on, the teenage pair repeated the dominant one-two on Monday while Wu simply struggled, nowhere near her best.
Wu, now 31 and comfortably the oldest diver to qualify for Monday's final in Qatar, has had a lot of fitness struggles since her Japanese success story, suffering a well-publicised back injury during filming for the reality quasi-military training TV show, SAS Australia.
