Following a brief illness, Rylan Wiens was beaming on the pool deck after clinching his second spot for the Paris Olympics this summer.
The 22-year-old diver from Pike Lake, Sask., scored 75.20 in the sixth and final round of the men's 10-metre platform event on Saturday, surpassing the 480 points needed for Olympic qualification by 9.2. "I went out there and just gave it my all, had a great time," Wiens, who placed fifth in the field of 12, told Diving Canada. "I'm exhausted. "I think this is the first time in my life I was speechless after [a competition].
The whole week I had lots of expectations … lot of goals and minus a medal I achieved everything I wanted. "I got sick during the week, didn't train for a couple of days, came back, couldn't do a handstand for a while, but I knew what I had to do.
I'm just so happy and proud." Wiens, who was ninth in 10m platform at 2022 worlds, missed last year's competition in Fukuoka, Japan with a back injury.