74.25 points! Chen Yuxi made the first mistake in the World Championships, and Quan Hongchan advanced to the finals for the second time: it was difficult to win gold
The 2024 FINA World Championships will be held in Doha, Qatar, and the diving event will produce a total of 13 gold medals, of which the Chinese team will participate in 9 individual competitions, and after the first three competition days, the Chinese team won 2 medals, namely Olympic champion Zhang Jiaqi and teenager Huang Jianjie won the gold medal in the mixed double 10m platform and Wang Zongyuan/ Long Daoyi defended his title in the men's double 3-meter springboard, and the fourth match day started first in the semi-finals of the women's 10-meter platform, with the two cores of the Chinese team, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, playing.
In terms of past performance in the World Championships, Chen Yuxi is more stable, in last year's World Championships, Chen Yuxi won the gold medal in this event, achieving his third consecutive World Championships in this event. In this year's World Championships, Quan Hongchan is aiming to hit the first championship, the previous two World Championships, Quan Hongchan won the silver medal after Chen Yuxi, and after opening her third World Championships, Quan Hongchan's performance will be more mature and stable. In the previous preliminaries, Chen Yuxi ranked first and got a high score of 435.20, while Quan Hongchan had certain flaws in the first and third rounds, and finally ranked second with 399.30 points, 35.90 points behind Chen Yuxi.
In the first round of the semifinals, Quan Hongchan scored 76.50 points, Chen Yuxi scored 82.5 points, and North Korean athletes ranked third. In the second round, Quan Hongchan's 407C scored 86.40 points, and Chen Yuxi scored the same score of 86.40 points for the same action. In this way, after the first two rounds, Chen Yuxi is still ahead of Quan Hongchan in first place, and the Mexican player has risen to third. In the third round, Quan Hongchan 6243B scored 86.4 points, Chen Yuxi 626C made a mistake, the angle of entry into the water was not straight, and the splash was a bit big, 74.25 points, which was also Chen Yuxi's first small mistake in this World Championships, the first single jump score was below 80 points, with this round, Quan Hongchan surpassed Chen Yuxi and rose to first.
However, Quan Hongchan failed to stabilize the lead, in the fourth round of the same 207C action, Quan Hongchan's jumping height is obviously not as good as Chen Yuxi, Quan Hongchan 79.20 points, Chen Yuxi 89.10 points, single jump score, Quan Hongchan lagged behind Chen Yuxi by nearly 10 points, and after the end of the fourth round, Chen Yuxi returned to the first. In the last round, Quan Hongchan, who took the lead, scored 76.80 points, and Chen Yuxi easily scored 89.60 points! In the final semi-final total score, Chen Yuxi ranked first with 421.85 points, and Quan Hongchan won the second place in the semifinals with 405.30 points to advance to the finals.
Next, at about 11:25 this evening, there will be a competition for the women's 10-meter platform final, when the gold medal in this event will also be produced, Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan will be the final winner. Judging from the performance in the semi-finals, the project's 3-time World Championships champion Chen Yuxi is not invulnerable, but even if there is a small mistake, Chen Yuxi can still lead Quan Hongchan in total scores, for Quan Hongchan fans, this is a very cruel fact, Quan Hongchan wants to defeat Chen Yuxi in the final to win the women's 10-meter platform gold medal at the World Championships for the first time, and complete the grand slam of the project, it is very difficult!