On April 21, Beijing time, the Xi'an Diving World Cup Finals entered the final day of competition, and at 5 o'clock in the evening, the much-anticipated women's single 10-meter platform final will start, and Quan Hongchan will attack the grand slam of this project!
At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan, who was only 14 years old, was born out of nowhere, stunning the world with a performance of 5 jumps and 3 perfect scores, plus her filial piety, sensibility, naïve and simple quality attracted countless fans. It is no exaggeration to say that Quan Hongchan has single-handedly made diving a hot sport at present.
Since the Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi have clashed a total of 14 times in official competitions, and I have sorted out the detailed confrontation records of the two (as shown in the figure below), from which it is not difficult to find that although Quan Hongchan has only won 5 victories, it includes the Olympic Games, the Asian Games, and the National Games This quadrennial competition, so although Quan Hongchan's championship is few, the gold content is very sufficient!
In addition to the Olympic Games, Asian Games and National Games, Quan Hongchan's other two international championships were won in last year's Diving World Cup Montreal Station and the Doha Swimming World Championships in February this year.
Because since last year, the FINA has restructured the Diving World Cup, which was held once every two years before to two sub-competitions and one finals a year. In the finals of the Berlin Diving World Cup last year, Quan Hongchan won the runner-up with 408.10 points, and Chen Yuxi won the championship with 12.20 points higher than Quan Hongchan.
Time comes to 2024, first of all, in the Diving World Cup Montreal held last month, Quan Hongchan was only short of Chen Yuxi with 3.90 points, and in the Diving World Cup Berlin station in early this month, because Chen Yuxi did not participate, Quan Hongchan easily won the championship with 432.80 points.
Now on the stage of the Xi'an Diving World Cup Finals, Quan Hongchan will be very eager for the championship of this event, because as long as Quan Hongchan wins the championship of this event, then she will undoubtedly win the "Grand Slam" of the women's single 10-meter platform event!
In the preliminaries on the morning of April 21, Quan Hongchan ranked first with 429.45 points and advanced to the evening finals, and Chen Yuxi ranked second with 416.50 points to advance to the finals. Here are the details of the finals.
There are a total of 12 players in the finals, and the order of appearance is arranged in reverse order of the preliminary results, Chen Yuxi is the penultimate appearance, and Quan Hongchan is the finale, and the preliminary results are not carried into the finals.
In the first jump, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi were both 107B with a difficulty coefficient of 3.0, and after three and a half weeks of forward somersaults, Chen Yuxi scored 82.50 points, and Quan Hongchan's performance was even better, scoring the highest 85.50 points in the game.
In the second jump, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi still have the same action, for the difficulty coefficient of 3.2 407C, inward somersault for three and a half weeks to hug the knees, the result is that both of them played very well, both got a high score of 91.20, so far after two jumps, Quan Hongchan temporarily ranked first with 176.70 points, and Chen Yuxi ranked second with 3.0 points behind.
In the third jump, Chen Yuxi's third jump was 626C with a difficulty coefficient of 3.3, and he stood and tossed backwards for three weeks to hug his knees, and Chen Yuxi's performance was very good, scoring the highest score of 94.05 in the field so far.
Quan Hongchan is a 6243D with a difficulty coefficient of 3.2, and her arms stand and tumble backwards for two and a half weeks, and it is not difficult to see that Quan Hongchan's difficulty coefficient in the third jump is 0.1 less than that of Chen Yuxi.
As a result, Quan Hongchan had a little flaw in this action, and the effect of entering the water was not particularly good, scoring 81.60 points. After the previous three jumps, Chen Yuxi rose to first place with 267.75 points, and Quan Hongchan dropped to second place with 258.30 points.
In the fourth jump, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi are both 207C with a difficulty coefficient of 3.3, and they tumbled backwards for three and a half weeks and hugged their knees, Chen Yuxi's performance was stable, but it was not very vertical when he entered the water, and he scored 87.45 points, which was also very high.
And Quan Hongchan played abnormally in this jump, there was a "fried fish" situation, the splash was very large, and the result was only 66.00 points, so far after the four jumps, Chen Yuxi ranked first with 355.20 points, and Quan Hongchan ranked second with 324.30 points.
At this time, Quan Hongchan was 20.90 points behind Chen Yuxi, and with the last jump left, it was still very difficult for Quan Hongchan to overtake Chen Yuxi.
In the last jump, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi are both 5253B with a difficulty coefficient of 3.2, turning backwards for two and a half weeks and turning and bending for a week, Chen Yuxi scored 88.00 points, and Quan Hongchan scored 86.40 points.
In the end, Chen Yuxi won the championship with 443.20 points, and Quan Hongchan scored a total of 410.70 points, unfortunately winning the runner-up. After this event, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi will go all out to prepare for the Paris Olympics, and they will compete again in the Paris Olympics!