At 21:00 on August 6, Beijing time, the Paris Olympics diving women's single 10-meter platform final officially began to compete, whether Quan Hongchan successfully defended the title, or Chen Yuxi won the Olympic championship in this project, which is very worthy of the outside world's expectations!
6 days ago, Quan Hongchan's partner Chen Yuxi won the diving women's double 10-meter platform championship, and now coming to the stage of the women's single 10-meter platform, it can be seen as the competition between Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, because the two members of the Chinese team have too much advantage. Three years ago at the Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan, who was only 14 years old at the time, made a splash and participated in the Olympics for the first time, and shocked the world with a stunning performance of 5 jumps and 3 perfect scores!
At the same time, coupled with Quan Hongchan's filial piety and sensible quality, Quan Hongchan has been loved by many Chinese people! However, after the Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan began to experience the inevitable physical development of every diver, and her performance had certain ups and downs.
From the beginning of the Tokyo Olympics to the start of the Paris Olympics in the three years, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi have faced each other a total of 15 times in official competitions, the author has sorted out the records of the past 15 official competitions between the two, Quan Hongchan only won 5 of them, so in the Paris Olympic cycle, Chen Yuxi's overall performance is better.
However, although Quan Hongchan has won the championship few times, the gold content is very high! Of the 5 competitions that Quan Hongchan won, 3 of them are quadrennial competitions, namely the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the 2021 National Games, and the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games.
Coming to the stage of the Paris Olympics this time, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi's competition for the championship has attracted great attention from many Chinese people! In the women's single 10-meter platform preliminaries and semifinals, Quan Hongchan ranked first!
In the final on the evening of August 6th, a total of 12 players competed, and the order of appearance was carried out in reverse order of the semi-final results, Chen Yuxi appeared in the penultimate appearance, and Quan Hongchan appeared in the finale, and the following brings the details of this game.
The first jump, the first jump, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi are both 107B with a difficulty coefficient of 3.0 (three and a half weeks of forward somersaults), Chen Yuxi's performance is very good, scoring 82.50 points, which is the highest score among all the players who have played.
And Quan Hongchan, who appeared in the finale, is simply impeccable in this action! In the end, all 7 judges gave a full score of 10! got the first perfect score of 90.00 points in the finals, Quan Hongchan is really too strong! After the first jump, Quan Hongchan ranked first, and Chen Yuxi temporarily ranked second.
In the second jump, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi still had the same action, 407C with a difficulty coefficient of 3.2 (three and a half weeks of tumbling inward and hugging the knees), Chen Yuxi's splash into the water was not suppressed, and he scored 78.40 points, which is a small mistake for Chen Yuxi.
Quan Hongchan's performance in the same action is much better than Chen Yuxi's, and finally scored 84.80 points, after the first two jumps, Quan Hongchan ranked first with 174.80 points, and Chen Yuxi ranked second with 13.80 points behind Quan Hongchan.
In the third jump, Chen Yuxi was a 626C with a difficulty coefficient of 3.3 (three weeks of arm standing and backward somersault and holding his knees), and his performance was perfect, with a high score of 89.10 and a total score of 250.00 points.
Quan Hongchan is a 6243D with a difficulty coefficient of 3.2 (the arm stands and flips backwards for two and a half weeks), and the difficulty coefficient of this jump Quan Hongchan is 0.1 lower than that of Chen Yuxi. Quan Hongchan had some flaws when she entered the water, and the splash was a little big, and she only scored 76.80 points, which was a mistake for Quan Hongchan, with a total score of 251.60 points.
After the first three jumps, Quan Hongchan is still temporarily ranked first with 251.60 points, and Chen Yuxi, who ranks second, is only 1.60 points behind Quan Hongchan, I have to say that the competition between the two is indeed too fierce!
In the fourth jump, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi both had a difficulty coefficient of 3.3 207C (three and a half weeks of backward somersaults and hugged their knees), Chen Yuxi's performance was perfect, and this jump once again got a high score of 89.10 points, with a total score of 399.10 points, and the pressure was on Quan Hongchan's side.
And Quan Hongchan, who appeared in the finale, performed even better, getting a high score of 92.40 points, so far after four jumps, Quan Hongchan's total score reached 344.00 points, still ranking first, Chen Yuxi ranked second, Quan Hongchan led Chen Yuxi by 4.90 points to enter the final jump battle!
In the last jump, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi are both 5253B with a difficulty coefficient of 3.2 (two and a half weeks of backward somersaults and one and a half turns and a half bending), Chen Yuxi's performance in this jump is normal, scoring 81.60 points, with a total score of 420.70 points,
Quan Hongchan withstood the pressure in the last jump, and her performance was perfect, and finally scored 81.60 points, with a total score of 425.60 points, and finally Quan Hongchan won the championship, and Chen Yuxi won the runner-up.
At the end of the 5 jumps, Quan Hongchan successfully defended her title in this project, she is really a competition-type player, congratulations to Quan Hongchan! Chen Yuxi won the second place, and the North Korean player won the third place. Finally, congratulations to the two Chinese team members for successfully winning the championship and runner-up in this event!