The 2024 Diving World Cup Super Finals (Xi'an) will be held in Xi'an this Friday, as the only international diving competition before the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Diving World Cup Finals is of great significance for athletes to maintain their condition and test their strength.
Can Quan Hongchan sprint to the individual gold medal championship Grand Slam? What kind of results will Yang Hao, an athlete of the Shaanxi diving team, achieve? The 2024 Diving World Cup Super Finals will definitely be wonderful.
Quan Hongchan will hit the individual Grand Slam
On the morning of April 17, in the swimming and diving hall of Xi'an Olympic Sports Center, Chinese team players Quan Hongchan, Chen Yuxi, Cao Yuan, Wang Zongyuan, etc. appeared in the pre-competition adaptation training.
As the world's most watched diving star athlete, Quan Hongchan won the second place in the women's 10-meter platform event at the 2024 FINA Diving World Cup in Montreal, Canada with a score of 411.45 points, and won the championship in the women's 10-meter platform event in Berlin, Germany with a score of 432.80 points.
In the 2024 Diving World Cup Super Finals, she will participate in the women's double 10-meter platform final (April 19) and the women's 10-meter platform final (April 21).
The women's 10m platform final is of great significance to Quan Hongchan, and if she wins, she will become the third Grand Slam player to win all the gold medals in the individual events of the world's three major diving cups (Olympics, World Championships and World Cup) after American star Wilkinson and Chinese star Chen Ruolin.
The only international diving competition before Paris 2024
The FINA Diving World Cup is a regular event every year. After competing in Montreal, Canada, and Berlin, Germany, the 2024 FINA Diving World Cup Finals brought together almost all the athletes who will participate in the Paris Olympics.
There will be 136 competitors in the diving competition at the Paris Olympics, and the qualification of athletes will be allocated by the host national Olympic committee, and the qualification of the national Olympic committee will be determined by the athlete's points in the specified event. The World Cup is an event where points can be earned.
The Chinese diving team has won the full qualification for the diving competition of the Paris Olympics at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, and mainly uses this World Cup Finals as an opportunity to observe opponents, maintain their condition, check and fill in gaps, test their strength and select and determine the official Olympic participation lineup.
It is worth mentioning that Yang Hao, an athlete of the Shaanxi diving team who is familiar to many Shaanxi Township Parties, will participate in the men's double 10-meter platform event.
Tournament review: The competition between different countries has become fierce
In the previous round of the Diving World Cup in Berlin, the competition between athletes from various countries has become fierce.
In the men's 3m springboard final, Mexico's Osmar Olvira Ibarra won the silver medal with the last jump, and Germany's Lars Rudiger won the bronze medal. In the women's 10m springboard final, Great Britain's Andrea Spandolini Cyrix won the silver medal, while Canada's Kelly McKay won the bronze medal. In the women's 3m springboard pairs, the American pair of Cassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon were at the top. In the men's double 10m platform competition, Great Britain Daly and Noah Williams won gold.
At present, athletes from all over the world have arrived in Xi'an one after another, and everyone is actively preparing for the 2024 FINA Diving World Cup Finals!
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Source: Huashang Net-Huashang Daily