The competition on the second day of the Doha World Swimming Championships has officially ended in the early hours of this morning, and from today, the diving competition will officially begin, and in the next few days, all the gold medals will be decided, and the Chinese team will also start the climax of winning gold and medals. However, in the first final of the diving competition, there was the biggest upset so far since the start of this competition, and it is even possible to book the first upset of the diving event of the World Swimming Championships in advance.
In the men's one-meter springboard event, Zheng Jiuyuan, a young player from China in 04, who is not yet 20 years old, is also his second time participating in the World Swimming Championships, and is also the favorite in the men's one-meter springboard, there were two huge mistakes in the course of the game, and only scored 30 points in these two rounds, and finally ranked 11th, and did not even have a chance to stand on the podium.
Such a result is a big surprise, the Chinese team is not saying that it is impossible to lose the gold medal in the diving competition, like in the last World Championships, we lost a gold medal, but even the top ten can not enter the situation, it is indeed very rare. Zheng Jiuyuan also paid the tuition for his youth, and hoped that he could make persistent efforts to find his form in the next games, and not be affected by this defeat, because he is still very young, and there are still many opportunities for trial and error in the future.
Zheng Jiuyuan was not particularly sure of the direction of training from the beginning, and he made his debut in 2021, and the direction of training and training was mainly in high platform diving - it was the men's double 10-meter platform, but then gradually turned to the three-meter board. Throughout 2023, more of his projects will appear in the three-meter board. However, Zheng Jiuyuan's luck can be said to be relatively bad, although he can have a relatively good performance every time he competes, but at the critical moment of the final championship, whether it is a three-meter board double jump or a single jump, he always misses the championship.
Throughout 2023, Zheng Jiuyuan has won a total of four runners-up in the three-meter board at home and abroad, which can be said to be a very, very regrettable, including the National Swimming Championships, Swimming World Championships, Hangzhou Asian Games and a series of very important competitions, he is the runner-up. In November 2023, he finally won his first championship in the 2023 individual event, and it happened to appear in the one-meter platform. Perhaps this is why Zhou Jihong arranged for him to participate in the one-meter platform event, which is not an Olympic event, nor is it the main event of the Chinese diving team, but considering Zheng Jiuyuan's excellent performance in the national championships, he was still sent to Doha to participate in this event.
It is precisely because he won the national championship that everyone generally believes that he can win the national championship and the world championship in a diving power like China, but he made a huge mistake and was not even able to enter the top ten, which is indeed a pity. Originally, the biggest favorite to win the championship other than Zheng Jiuyuan, Li Shixin, a Chinese star from Australia, also made a mistake and finally ranked second. A competitor from Mexico won the gold medal, which was also Mexico's first gold medal at the World Swimming Championships.