At the 2024 National Diving Championships, 12-year-old Sichuan player Li Ruixi won the championship with 358.75 points. Xu Nan was second with 330.70 points, Wang Manrui was third with 330.30 points, and Lu was fourth with 325.75 points.
Lu Wei won the world championship in the two-person event in 2019 and the national diving championship this year, but unfortunately he was not in good shape this time. Li Ruixi was born in 2012, this is a post-10 player, who won the national championship at the age of 12, and I have to say that he is indeed another talented player.
Quan Hongchan was 13 years old when she won the national championship in 2020, and Li Ruixi won the national championship one year younger than Quan Hongchan. Li Ruixi is the "child sister" of the Chinese women's 10-meter platform diving.
Li Ruixi began to participate in senior national competitions at the end of 2013, including the National Diving Championships, Paris Olympics and Doha World Championships Trials, Li Ruixi and Lu Wei jointly won the third place in the pairs event, when she was only 11 years old.
In the National Diving Championship in May 2024, Li Ruixi and Lu Wei teamed up to win the runner-up in the double women's 10-meter platform diving. In this National Diving Championships, Li Ruixi achieved a transformation, she won the women's 10-meter platform diving championship in an upset, and also teamed up with Lu Wei to win the third place in double diving.
Li Ruixi became the biggest winner of the National Diving Championships. It is worth mentioning that she was praised by netizens as Quan Hongchan's successor, and Quan Hongchan's double diving partner was also Lu Wei.
Quan Hongchan and Lu Wei have teamed up to win second place in a series of domestic competitions, and the champion is the combination of Chen Yuxi and Zhang Jiaqi. It's just that Quan Hongchan won the championship in the Tokyo Olympics, and Lu Wei failed to transform. During the Paris Olympic cycle, Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan teamed up to compete.
Lu Wei's current partner was replaced by 12-year-old Li Ruixi, both of whom are in the Sichuan team. Li Ruixi's various skills still need to be polished, and her current winning score has not yet reached 360 points. You must know that when Quan Hongchan won the women's 10-meter platform championship in the National Diving Championship in October 2020, she got a high score of 437.75 points, suppressing Chen Yuxi, Zhang Jiaqi, Zhang Minjie, Ren Qian and other famous generals in one fell swoop.
In this national diving championship, Quan Hongchan, Chen Yuxi, Zhang Jiaqi and Zhang Minjie did not participate, and the gold content was relatively low. The women's 10-meter platform diving is changing rapidly, and Li Ruixi's rise is at the right time, and she still has a lot of room for improvement.
I believe that after polishing, her total score in the future is expected to break through the 400-point mark or even continue to rise, so as to put some pressure on Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi. Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi have been fighting for several years, and the Chinese women's 10-meter platform diving should also have a "back wave", which is also the reason why Chinese diving has been prosperous for a long time.