Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Li Yuanfei On the night of June 26, Beijing time, the champion of the men's synchronized three-meter springboard event was decided at the 19th FINA World Swimming Championships. Cao Yuan/Wang Zongyuan, who have partnered since the beginning of the

Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Li Yuanfei

On the night of June 26, Beijing time, the champion of the men's synchronized three-meter springboard event of the 19th FINA World Swimming Championships was decided. Cao Yuan / Wang Zongyuan , who has partnered since the beginning of the year, won the first diving gold medal in this world championship with 459.18 points.

At last year's Tokyo Olympics, Wang Zongyuan partnered with Xie Sizhen and won the gold medal in this event. Cao Yuan won his third Olympic gold medal in the men's singles ten-meter platform at the Tokyo Olympics.

However, Cao Yuan's second Olympic gold medal was won in the men's three-meter springboard at the 2016 Rio Olympics , and during the Tokyo Olympics cycle, Cao Yuan has been practicing both plank and platform for a long time. So although he and Wang Zongyuan have not been paired together for a long time, they have developed enough tacit understanding through training and preparation.

After completing the first two required moves, the Chinese team was already 9 points ahead of the second-place German team. At the end of the first optional action, the British team surpassed the German team and came to second place, but the Chinese team has further expanded its lead to 15.3 points. The fourth move of the Chinese combination, 407C (inward somersault three-and-a-half-week knee-tuck), was slightly flawed in the preliminaries, but in the final jump, the two young men's movements were extremely synchronized, and four of the five synchronized judges gave the correct answer. After scoring 9.0 points, they finally got a high score of 89.76 points, further expanding their lead.

In the last two rounds, the British team performed well with a set of more difficult moves and put a lot of pressure on Cao Yuan/Wang Zongyuan. When completing the last jump, 109C, the most difficult set of moves for the Chinese team (forward somersault and half-tuck), Cao Yuan made a slight mistake when taking advantage of the board in the last jump, resulting in flaws when entering the water. The Chinese team had to jump It reached 79.80 points, but fortunately the advantage was more obvious before, and in the end he still won the championship with an advantage of 7.47 points.