Zhang Jiaqi and Huang Jianjie won China's first diving gold at the World Championships! Zheng Jiuyuan ranked 11th, and China missed the World Championships for 10 consecutive championships

The 2024 Doha Swimming World Championships diving competition continues, from the evening of February 3 to the early morning of February 4, a total of two competitions were held, the Chinese diving team won the first gold medal of the World Swimming Championships, in the double mixed 10-meter platform competition, 13-year-old Huang Jianjie partnered with Zhang Jiaqi, and won the gold medal with a huge advantage of nearly 50 points ahead of the second place, in the men's 1-meter board final, Chinese player Zheng Jiuyuan performed poorly, made many major mistakes, and finally only ranked 11th (second-to-last) in the final, which is also the first time that the Chinese team lost gold after winning the men's 1-meter board championship in 9 consecutive monopolized the World Championships in 2007, missed the men's 1-meter board 10 consecutive championships.

Double mixed 10m platform

The Chinese team sent the Olympic champion and the teenager under the age of 14 Huang Jianjie to participate in the competition, Zhang Jiaqi is already a veteran of the Chinese diving team, but the age is only about to be 20 years old, with the growth of age and body, she has gradually been thrown away by Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi in the single field, but she is still qualified for the World Championships, this is Zhang Jiaqi's fourth time participating in the World Championships, and the 2023 Fukuoka World Championships also won the mixed doubles 10-meter platform championship with Wang Feilong.

And this time with her partner is 13-year-old Huang Jianjie, and he is also the Chinese diving dream team lineup, the only non-world champion player, although this is the first time the two paired, but the two cooperate tacitly, the strength is significantly higher than other competitors, the two from the first jump to lead, since then the better and better jumps, especially the fourth jump of 407C, 87.36 points, and finally won the championship with a score of 353.82 points, for the "dream team" won the first gold of this competition, North Korea and Mexico won the second and third places. This is Zhang Jiaqi's third World Championships gold medal, and it is also Huang Jianjie's first World Championships gold medal.

Men's 1m springboard

Preliminaries Recap:

In this World Championships, the Chinese diving team only sent one player Zheng Jiuyuan to participate in the competition of the men's 1-meter board event in the non-Olympic events, a total of 45 players participated in the preliminaries, Chinese player Zheng Jiuyuan was a little nervous, in the first diving splash was not well controlled, in the second jump and the third jump successively made a big mistake, respectively only 49.50 points and 49.60 points, although the three jumps played steadily, especially the fourth jump, got 78.20 points, and finally scored 378.60 points, and advanced to the final with the fourth place, 27.70 points behind the first Mexican player in the preliminariesFormer Chinese world champion Li Shixin also represented Australia in the event, and finally advanced to the final with a 1.25-point advantage over Zheng Jiuyuan.

In the finals, Zheng Jiuyuan's performance was extremely bad, there were major mistakes in the second jump and the fifth jump, the second jump 205C only scored 39 points, and the ranking fell from 4th to 8th, and then chased to the fourth in the next two rounds, but the fifth jump of 107B fried fish again, only scored 31.35 points, ranking down to 9th, and the sixth jump 5152B played unsatisfactory, only scored 52.8 points, and finally ranked 11th with a score of 334.35 points, which was the penultimate in the final.

The 1-meter springboard was the first official event of the World Championships at the 6th World Aquatics Championships in Perth in 1991, and the Chinese team won 12 gold medals in the last 13 World Championships. However, this time, Zheng Jiuyuan created the worst record for Chinese players in this event in 33 years. And this is also the first time that the Chinese team has lost gold since it monopolized the men's 1-meter board championship for 9 consecutive World Championships in 2007, and missed the men's 1-meter board 10 consecutive championships.

In addition, Li Shixin, the former Chinese world champion and currently representing Australia, played well, chasing second place in the first jump, and finally won the second place with a score of 395.70 points with a stable performance, the championship was won by Mexico's Ibarra with a score of 431.75 points, and Britain's Haslam won the bronze medal.

February 4 Preliminary Finals Schedule [Beijing Time]

Feb. 4, 15:00 Women's 10 Rice Tai 预赛 (全红婵,陈芋汐)

Feb 4th 20:30 Men's Pairs 3m Springboard Final (Wang Zongyuan/Long Daoyi)

Venue:

Hamad Aquatic Centre