The 2024 World Aquatics Championships are being held in Doha, Qatar, and in the women's 10-meter platform final of the diving event held late at night on February 5, Beijing time, Chinese players Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi won the championship and runner-up, and Guangdong player Quan Hongchan won the gold medal in the women's 10-meter platform at the World Championships for the first time.
The women's 10-meter diving platform is the ace event of the Chinese diving team, which is composed of Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, with an absolute advantage, and there is almost no suspense in winning the championship and runner-up, and the only highlight is the championship battle between the two.
After a hundred battles, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi's technical movements are becoming more and more perfect, and their strength is between the best. Zhou Jihong, the leader of the Chinese diving team, once commented on the two: "Both are very good and work hard, and they will see the difference in the competition." "The strength of the two is equal, and who can win the championship in the arena depends more on the on-the-spot performance.
Quan Hongchan from Guangdong holds the Olympic Games and Asian Games gold medals, just one world championship away, and Chen Yuxi from Shanghai, as a three-time world champion, will attack four consecutive championships.
In the preliminaries and semifinals, Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan entered the finals with the first and second results respectively. In the final, Quan Hongchan was in the lead from the first round, although the difference in points ahead of Chen Yuxi after the third jump was only 0.05 points, but Quan Hongchan played steadily, continued to suppress, was not overtaken, and maintained the advantage until the end of the game.
What is remarkable is that Quan Hongchan's key fourth jump, which is known as Quan Hongchan's heart demon's 207C (backward somersault three and a half weeks and knee hugging) action, she completed it impeccably, got 10 points from 4 judges, and finally got the highest score of 97.35 points. In the end, Quan Hongchan won the championship with a total score of 436.25, which was the first time that Quan Hongchan won the gold medal in the women's platform single event since participating in the World Championships for the third time. Chen Yuxi won the silver medal with a total score of 427.80. Britain's Spandolini won the bronze medal with a total score of 377.10.
In the events that have ended a few days ago, Huang Jianjie/Zhang Jiaqi won the diving mixed double 10-meter platform championship, and Wang Zongyuan/Long Daoyi won the men's double 3-meter springboard championship. It is worth mentioning that Huang Jianjie is a player from Guangdong who is only 13 years old.
Zheng Jiuyuan suffered a defeat in the men's 1m springboard event, failing to win a medal and finishing second from the bottom. Judging from the whole process of the game, Zheng Jiuyuan's difficulty has no advantage, his on-the-spot performance fluctuates greatly, and his mentality is unstable.
The diving competition at the World Championships will be held from February 2 to 10 at the Hamad Aquatics Centre, where 13 gold medals will be decided. The Chinese team gave up three non-Olympic events, namely the women's one-meter springboard, the mixed three-meter springboard and the mixed team competition, giving athletes from other countries some room to compete for gold medals.
In this World Championships, the Chinese team sent all the main players to compete, including not only the two popular players in the women's platform event, Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan, but also the two comeback Olympic champions Cao Yuan and Xie Sicheng.
The goal of the Chinese team is not only to compete for gold and silver, but also to take this opportunity to observe the opponent, temper the team and comprehensively consider the results to select the Olympic squad.
Text | Reporter Long Xi
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