Havana, February 9 (RHC) - Cuban diver Prisis Leydis Ruiz made history at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha by finishing 16th in the 3-meter springboard, a result that virtually earned her a ticket to Paris-2024.

Ruiz scored this Friday 229.90 units and could not advance to the final of the 12 best, who assured direct quotas for the Olympic Games in the French capital, but several of the finalists already had their tickets, so the Cuban should enter when FINA updates the final list.

On Thursday, Prisis, champion of the San Salvador-2023 Centrocaribes, had made history by becoming the first Cuban diver to advance to a world semifinal, placing 13th in preliminaries among 52 ornamentalists, with 262.35 units.

The performance was described as a "brilliant performance" by the National Diving Commissioner, Milagros Gonzalez, in statements to the digital newspaper Jit.

"This is the best result by a woman in a world championship. No Cuban woman had ever been included among the 18 semifinalists," added Milagros, who also proudly highlighted the 20th place achieved in that event by Anisley García, despite being a specialist on the platform.

Both Prisis, in springboard, and Anisley, in platform, entered the Olympic qualification zone, although we will have to wait for World Aquatics confirmations at a later date.

In addition to Prisis' semifinal, this Friday Cuba was present at the World Championship with Carlos Daniel Ramos in the platform, who finished in 30th place with 329.45 points, and could not advance among the top 18 to the semifinals.Carlos Daniel, 20 years old and Pan American champion of Leon-2023, had a first jump according to his rank, but failed in the second one and that cost him a better final result.