Kazan Worlds champion diver He Chao of China failed to make the men's 3m springboard semis at the Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
He, who made mistakes in his second and third dives, collected 380.35 points to finish only 21st among 29 divers in the preliminary round.
"I am surprised about this result. I prepared for four years for this competition and to end it like this, I feel very disappointed about this outcome," He said.
He only scored 27.75 points on his third dive.
"It was the wind that really affected the start of my dive. We didn't train in these kinds of very windy conditions before at all," he said.
Another Chinese diver, Cao Yuan displayed consistency in big winds and ranked first with 498.70 points.
The semifinal and final will take place on Tuesday.
Also on Monday, China's synchronised swimming pair finished second in duet technical routine and will try their best in Tuesday's final.
Russia's Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina led the field after their free routine preliminary and were the first to perform their technical routine, setting the bar high with the 96.4577 points they earned for their effort. They finished the preliminary round with a total of 194.5244 points and qualified for the final in first place.
China's Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan maintained their runners-up status with a strong technical performance, which put them just 1.0889 points behind the dominant Russian pair going into the final. They collected 191.4355 in total.
Japan was third with 187.5214.
Since the points from the technical routine carrying over to the final, China looks to be the biggest threat to the Russian pair, the London gold medallists, as well as Russia's streak of gold medals in the event going back to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
