On the morning of April 19, the high-profile 2024 FINA Diving World Cup Finals kicked off in Xi'an. Among them, the women's double 10m platform final is particularly interesting. The Chinese combination Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, the invincible partners in the world, won an astonishing score of 364.86 points with their otherworldly performance, won the championship with a faulty advantage, and won the first gold medal for the Chinese diving team in the finals.
It is understood that the 2024 FINA Diving World Cup is divided into three stops, the first two competitions will be held in Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany, respectively, which is the highest level of diving single event held by FINA. More than 140 athletes and coaches from 14 countries, including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Italy, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Jamaica, South Africa and Ukraine, participated in the finals.
The women's double 10m platform is the earliest event to start in this finals, and the final will be held directly without preliminaries. From the beginning of the competition, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi showed their exquisite skills and tacit cooperation, and the movements were almost identical, perfectly interpreting the essence of double diving and pushing the atmosphere of the competition to a new height. There was no suspense about the results of the competition, and the two Chinese girls conquered the audience and the judges with their impeccable performances, and finally won the crown with an excellent score of 364.86 points, more than 70 points ahead of the runners-up.
Looking back on Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan's World Cup journey, they have partnered to participate in the double platform event since the 2022 Berlin World Cup. In the past three years, except for Chen Yuxi's absence in the Berlin branch last month, the Chinese team gave up the medal competition in the women's doubles 10-meter platform event, and the other six competitions won the first place, achieving the sixth consecutive championship in the women's double 10-meter platform event in the World Cup.
Reporter: Li Mengting
Editor: Ye Fangfang
Reviewer: Wei Li