Chao News client reporter Zhao Lei
Zhang Jiaqi/Huang Jianjie won the first gold medal of the Chinese team at the Doha World Swimming Championships. Image credit: FINA
On February 3, Beijing time, the Doha World Swimming Championships entered the second day of competition. In the diving competition, the Chinese combination Huang Jianjie/Zhang Jiaqi won the championship in the mixed double 10-meter platform final with a total score of 353.82 points in five jumps, and successfully won the first gold medal for the Chinese team in this World Swimming Championships. North Korea won the silver medal and Mexico won the bronze medal.
Zhang Jiaqi and Huang Jianjie in the game. Image credit: FINA
The diving dream team sent a total of 13 athletes, 8 men and 5 women, 12 of whom are world champions and 6 who have won Olympic titles. Huang Jianjie, who is only 13 years old, is the only non-world champion and the youngest competitor.
Zhang Jiaqi/Huang Jianjie in the game. Image credit: FINA
Judging from the specific events of this World Championships, the Chinese diving team gave up the mixed team competition that defended the title in Fukuoka last year, and the two non-Olympic events of the women's 1-meter board and mixed doubles 3-meter board were also not registered. But in order to give the young players more experience in the competition, Zheng Jiuyuan and Zhang Jiaqi/Huang Jianjie signed up for two other non-Olympic events, namely the men's 1m springboard and the just-concluded mixed doubles 10m platform.
Chinese athlete Xu Huiyan won the bronze medal in the women's synchronized swimming single technical selection. Image credit: FINA
In addition, earlier today, in the synchronized swimming competition, Chinese athlete Xu Huiyan won the bronze medal in the women's single technical free-selection, and the Chinese team won the first medal at the 2024 FINA World Championships. Greece's Plataniti and Canada's Jacqueline Simonno won the event, respectively.
In the women's 10km marathon swimming, Dutchman Shavin van Lowendahl won the championship. Image credit: FINA
In open water swimming, in the women's 10km marathon, China's Xin Xin and Zhejiang's Mao Yihan ranked 37th and 40th respectively. The Netherlands' Chavin van Lowendal won the event.
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