World Championship gold medal list: Chinese team 11 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze, China Huayou sisters won the silver medal
At the 2023 World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, the seventh competition day will be held on July 20, and three gold medals will be awarded in a single day. They are the men's 3m springboard for diving, the women's doubles free choice for synchronized swimming and the 4×1500m for men and women in open water. The Chinese delegation won 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze, with a total score of 11 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze, and a total of 17 medals.
Gold medal table at the World Swimming Championships
Up to now, the Chinese delegation still ranks first, with a total record of 11 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze. Currently in second place is host Japan, with a record of 4 golds and 3 bronzes; In third place is Germany, with 4 golds and 2 bronzes. Spain is in fourth place, currently with 3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze. In addition, Italy and Austria each have 1 gold medal.
Diving: Women's 3m Springboard + Men's 3m Springboard (Wang Zongyuan Gold Medal + Long Dao One Bronze Medal)
The women's 3m springboard was held in the heats and semifinals, with Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen of the Chinese diving team participating. Chen Yiwen's performance from the preliminary round to the semi-final was very stable, jumping 355.00 and 363.70 points respectively, both of which advanced to the first place. Changyani played mediocre in the preliminary round, jumping 303.60 points to only rank fourth, and her form in the semifinals improved significantly, jumping 354.75 points to rank second. On the whole, there are no big problems in the preliminary round and semi-finals, and both players from the Chinese team have successfully advanced to the final, and the final will be contested at 17 o'clock on July 21.
The men's 3m springboard final was contested by Wang Zongyuan and Long Daoyi of the Chinese diving team. Wang Zongyuan's performance has always been relatively stable, although the single jump score in the first jump ranked second, but then 3 consecutive jumps were the first single jump, thus laying the foundation for the championship and winning the gold medal with a score of 538.10 points. Wang Zongyuan's gold medal is the 10th gold medal of the Chinese diving team and the 11th gold of the Chinese delegation, and the Chinese diving team has achieved 9 consecutive world championships in this event.
The competition for the silver medal was full of ups and downs, and China's Long Daoyi's first dive was not suppressed, and the subsequent overtake by Mexico's Olvera was also foreshadowed here. Mexico's Olvera performed well in both the fifth and sixth jumps, scoring two consecutive single-jump highs to win the silver medal with 507.50 points. Ryudo eventually won the bronze medal with a score of 499.75 points, which is not much behind the Mexican athlete.
The Chinese diving team welcomes an opponent, the Mexican is not yet 20 years old, and his stability at this stage is relatively poor, but he is extremely capable of challenging high difficulties. All in all, if this athlete becomes more stable, it will indeed threaten the gold medal of the Chinese diving team. Of course, being competitive is good for the development of diving projects.
Synchronized swimming: group free choice + women's doubles free choice (Wang Qianyi/Wang Liuyi silver medal)
The collective free optional events competed for the preliminary round, and the Chinese synchronized swimming team was 46.30 difficult and successfully completed various movements. The Chinese team received an artistic impression score of 126.60 and an execution score of 195.6731, ranking first in the preliminary round with a total score of 322.2731, followed by Spain, Japan, Ukraine and the United States in second to fifth. Previously, the Chinese team also ranked first in the collective technical self-selection preliminaries, but the difficulty of the final was not recognized, and the result was ranked seventh. Now the Chinese synchronized swimming team is competing again in the collective event, and the final will be held at 18:30 on the evening of July 21.
The women's doubles free choice competed in the final, and the sisters Wang Qianyi / Wang Liuyi of the Chinese synchronized swimming team competed, and they scored 184.7208 points in the preliminary round and ranked ninth. Coming to the final arena, the Chinese Huayou sisters really enlarged their moves and successfully completed various difficult moves. The difficulty of 38.75 was all recognized by the judges, with an artistic impression of 95.9000 points, an execution of 159.3480 points, and a total score of 255.2480, ranking first at that time.
Austria's Alexandri Sisters came out later, with a higher difficulty of 41.05 in the final, and all of them were recognized by the judges, although the artistic impression score of 91.1000 was lower than that of the Chinese sisters, but the execution score of 164.3583 was higher than that of the Chinese sisters, and its total score was also higher than that of the Chinese Huayou sisters. Since then, the rest of the teams have competed, and none of them have scored higher than the top three. Chinese Huayou sisters Kao Qianyi/Wang Liuyi won the gold medal, the Austrian team won the gold medal, and the Japanese team won the bronze medal.
Open water: 4×1500 m mixed
A total of 21 teams participated in the event, and the Chinese team sent Zhang Ziyang, Wang Kexin, Wu Shutong and Meng Rui to complete the race in 1 hour, 14 minutes 50.1 seconds, 4 minutes 18.9 seconds behind the champion team, and finally finished 11th. Italy won gold in 1:10:31.2, Hungary took silver in 1:10:35.3, and Australia took bronze in 1:11:26.7.
At this point, the open water race was all over, and all the first four individual gold medals were won by German athletes, but in the 4×1500m relay race, the German team was not strong enough, finishing with a time of 1 hour, 11 minutes 26.9 seconds. Germany finished fourth and missed the podium, but were still big winners in the open waters.