Pakistan, Feb. 10 -- Australian Cassiel Rousseau has been named the 2023 World Aquatics Diving Athlete of the Year following his gold-medal heroics in Japan. Rousseau became the first Australian to be crowned world champion in the men's 10m platform in Fukuoka in July. The 23-year-old's efforts in Japan proved vital in being voted the 2023 diving athlete of the year, with Rousseau handed the award in Doha before the women's 3m springboard semi-final on Friday.

"I'm really honoured to have received this award, especially since it was a community driven one, and once again unexpected," Rousseau said in a statement. "I want to say thank you to everyone that is supporting me, and I definitely could not have achieved what I have done alone."...