World Cup: There are gold medals for 9 Participants. China team has won 8 Olympic champions.
China News Agency, Beijing, October 23. On the 23rd local time, the 2022 FINA Diving World Cup closed in Berlin, Germany. The Chinese diving team once again demonstrated the strong strength of the “Dream Team, it swept through the 8 Olympic gold medals participating in the competition and won 4 individual champions.
In This World Cup, women’s single 3-meter springboard and men’s single 10-meter end day were competed in jumping platform, as well as three projects of mixed groups. The Chinese team won the championship and runner-up of two individual projects.
In the women’s single 3 m springboard final, Chang Yanni and Chen Yiwen, who won the women’s double 3 m board gold medal together, became the biggest competitors of each other. In the preliminary competition, Chang Yani, the bronze winner of this year’s world championships, ranked first in the World Championship champion Chen Yiwen. In the final, Chang Yani was still brave and won the championship with 363.75 points. Chen Yiwen won the runner-up with 346.95 points. The scores of the two Chinese players were higher than those of the third Japanese players (287.05 points) 59 points or more.
After the Tokyo Olympic Games, Shi Tingyi and Wang Han, two Olympic champions of Chinese women’s springboard project, retired one after another, chen Yiwen, 23, and Chang Yanni, 20, became the key player of the Chinese diving team during the Paris Olympic cycle. In this summer’s World Championships, Chen Yiwen and Chang Yanni not only won the women’s double 3-meter springboard championship, but also won the gold medal and bronze medal of the single 3-meter springboard respectively, it continues the strength and honor of the Chinese diving team in this project.
The men’s single 10 m final was jointly played by Yang Hao and Yang Jian. In this World Cup, Yang Hao and zaijunjie jointly won the men’s 3 m board gold medal. Yang Jian, the double champion of the World Cup and the world championship, only participated in the men’s 3 m board single player competition of this World Cup. In the end, Yang Jian, who performed better, won the gold medal with 537.70 points, which also exceeded his achievement of winning the championship in this year’s world championships. Yang Hao won the silver medal and the American player won the bronze medal.
At this point, all the nine players of the Chinese diving team participating in this World Cup have gold medals, among which Chen Taro, Wang Zongyuan and Chang Yanni have become “double champion King”. The 15-year-old Quanhong and 17-year-old Chen Taro also achieved a three of the World’s Greatest Matches Gold Medal Grand Slam in this World Cup.
There are 9 projects in this World Cup, 8 of which are Olympic events, 1 is an additional mixed group project, and the Chinese team only participates in 8 Olympic events.
From last year’s Olympic Games to this summer’s World Championships to the current World Cup, in the past 15 months, the Chinese diving team has only “lost” one gold medal in the world’s three major competitions, it was in the men’s double 10 m final of the Tokyo Olympic Games last year, the Chinese team Cao Yuan/Chen Eisen ranked second due to mistakes, and the British team won the championship. In this year’s World Championships in Budapest, the Chinese diving team won all 13 gold medals. In this World Cup, the Chinese team once again won 8 Olympic gold medals.
There is still a big regret for the Chinese diving team: they have never won all diving gold medals in a single Olympic Games. However, judging from the current lineup and performance of the Chinese diving team, the Paris Olympics in 2024 may be the best time to make up for this regret. (Finished)