On the second day of the 2024 FINA World Championships, the Chinese team gradually got better, winning 1 gold medal and 1 bronze medal. In the synchronized swimming women's single technical free-selection final, Xu Huiyan won a valuable bronze medal, which was the first medal won by the Chinese team at this World Championships. In the diving field, Zhang Jiaqi/Huang Jianjie won the gold medal in the mixed doubles 10-meter platform diving, which was the first gold medal for the Chinese team in this World Championships.
On the second day of the World Championships in Doha, the Chinese team won its first medal and its first gold medal from different events. The first medal was the women's synchronized swimming singles selection, and Xu Huiyan impressed the judges with her stunning performance and won the bronze medal, which was a surprise. As for the first gold medal, it was still opened by the Chinese diving team, Zhang Jiaqi/Huang Jianjie easily won the mixed doubles 10-meter platform diving gold medal, Huang Jianjie, who was born in 2010, participated in the World Championships for the first time and became the world champion in one fell swoop, and is also the first post-10 world champion of the Chinese diving team.
One gold and one bronze in a single day does show that the Chinese team is getting better, but it can't cover up the fiasco of the Chinese diving team. In the men's 1-meter board final, Zheng Jiuyuan fell out of standard, made mistakes in the whole set of actions, and fried fish many times. In the end, Zheng Jiuyuan only ranked 11th out of 12 contestants, that is, the penultimate place, and almost finished at the bottom. Zheng Jiuyuan was close to 100 points less than the champion, which was an extremely rare defeat for the Chinese team, and the men's 1-meter springboard winning consecutive World Championships ended the momentum. In fact, according to Zheng Jiuyuan's strength, it may not be unexpected to miss the gold medal, but missing the medal, or even the top ten, is definitely a big upset.
In addition, in the women's 10km marathon swimming final, Xin Xin and Mao Yihan ranked 37th and 40th respectively.
On the next third day of competition, the diving event will first hold the women's 10-meter platform preliminaries, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi will appear soon, and the preliminaries will be at 15 pm on February 4. In addition, Wang Zongyuan and Long Daoyi teamed up to compete in the men's double 3-meter springboard final, which should be successfully won by normal performance, which will be held at 20:30 on the evening of February 4. In the synchronized swimming event, Xu Huiyan participated in the women's singles free selection preliminaries, the Chinese Huayou team participated in the collective skills free selection final, and Cheng Wentao/Shi Haoyu participated in the mixed doubles technical free selection final, and the Chinese team will hit two gold medals.
In addition, there are open water events, with Chinese players Liu Peixin and Zhang Jinhou competing in the men's 10km swimming final, and the Chinese team will also participate in the women's water polo group stage, and the Chinese team in Group B will face Spain. On the third match day, the Chinese team went all out to attack three gold medals, and I wish the Chinese team good luck!