Meaghan Benfeito tweets highs, lows, highs of diving

If her tweets are to be believed, Canadian diver Meaghan Benfeito has been on an emotional rollercoaster for the last 36 hours.

Though she and partner Vincent Riendeau won silver in the mixed 10-metre synchro event Fridayat the FINA/NVC Diving World Series event inDubai, United Arab Emirates, things have not always been so rosy.

Her trip to Dubai started with success: a second-place finish in the women's 10-metre synchro with partner Roseline Filion.

It was just their second time diving together since Filionbroke her ankle in December. They had finished fourth at the first world series event in Beijing on March 11 and were keen to make it back onto the podium. Mission accomplished.

They also moved Canada up in the world rankings, from fourth to third, just three points behind second-place Great Britain and 12 points behind China.

On Thursday morning, however, a ninth-place finish in the 10-metre platform event seemed to pitch Benfeito into achute of despair:

Despite a strong start with the first of her five dives, Benfeito scored lowest or second-lowestin eachsubsequent dive. She finished with293.35 points, 65.9 points behind the leader, Huixia Liu, of China.

With that event behind her, her sport's national federation wanted her to look to the future. The immediate future. As in, that afternoon future.

They needn't have worried.

Benfeito, 27, and Riendeau, 20, scored307.38 after five dives, placingthem 42.36 points behind the gold medallists, Xiaohu Tai and Yani Chang of China.

The result moved them into second place in the world rankings after two events in the 2016 world series, behind China and ahead of France. They had been third, behind France, after the first event in Beijing.

The event was Benfeito's final in Dubai. Her teammates, Pamela Ware and Jennifer Abel, compete in the women's three-metre springboard final on Saturday.