The most anticipated event of the World Aquatics Championships happens this weekend

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Today in Fukuoka, Japan, Canada won its second medal of the World Aquatics Championships as veteran diver Pamela Ware took bronze in the women's 3-metre springboard event. That followed Wednesday's bronze by Caeli McKay in the women's 10m platform.

Ware's medal was the fourth of her career at the world championships and the first in eight years. The 30-year-old from Longueuil, Que., hadn't reached the podium in a solo event at the worlds since 2013.

Today's bronze also completed Ware's comeback from a disastrous performance at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, where she missed the 3m final after aborting a dive and jumping into the water feet first. She stepped away from competition, including last year's worlds, before returning in May at a World Cup stop in Montreal.

Following today's bronze win, Ware told CBC Sports' Devin Heroux that she thought about quitting the sport after her Olympic failure. "I was traumatized by it for about a year," she said.

Diving competition concludes Saturday with two finals. Ware and Bryden Hattie will compete in the mixed 3m synchronized event at 2:30 a.m. ET. Canada's Nathan Zsombor-Murray is in the men's 10m platform at 5:30 a.m. ET. Both events will be streamed live on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app and CBC Gem.

After that, the world championships' marquee sport enters the spotlight as swimming takes over the pool. Competition begins Saturday night in Canadian time zones and the first medal races go Sunday morning.

The opening finals session includes the most anticipated race of the entire meet: the women's 400m freestyle. It's a