Chen Yuxi won the championship (right), Quanhongchan won silver
Chen Yuxi was in the competition
2022 Budapest World Swimming Championships women's 10-meter platform final ended in the early morning of June 28th, Beijing time, just as everyone expected. Two young girls from the Chinese diving team competed for the gold medal, while athletes from other countries competed for the bronze medal. But the process of competing for the gold medal, which will definitely belong to China's " dream team ", still made the audience watching late at night feel excited and excited. The suspense was left until the last beat, and the charm of sports competitions was all in it.
In the end, Shanghai girl Chen Yuxi, who only turned 17 in September, scored 417.25 points, narrowly defeating Tokyo Olympic champion Quan Hongchan, a 15-year-old Zhanjiang girl with the smallest advantage in the history of the World Diving Championships by 0.3 points, and won the world championship in this event. . The two young players are at least one action ahead of other players from other countries. The healthy competition between the two and the ups and downs of the game are enjoyable to watch. Looking at the overall situation, it is a blessing for the Chinese diving team. With the double insurance of Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan, at least it is guaranteed that in the next Olympic cycle and the next two World Championships, the Chinese team will have no worries about winning the championship in this event. .
Chinese little flowers have appeared one after another
The women's 10-meter platform has lost suspense
In the two World Championships in 2015 and 2017, the Chinese team unexpectedly failed to win the gold medal in the women's 10-meter platform. Two dark horses from North Korea and Malaysia Jin Guoxiang and Zhang Junhong won the championship respectively. In addition, at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Mexico's Paula Espinoza won the gold medal, making this event very unpredictable and becoming the most likely to be upset in international diving competitions. hotbed, often makes the Chinese diving team leader Zhou Jihong unwilling.
But currently, due to the emergence of Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan, this project has become the most reassuring project in the "Dream Team". In Gwangju in 2019, 14-year-old Chen Yuxi beat the crowd and climbed to the top podium. This time in the World Championships in Budapest, talented player Quan Hongchan participated. The Chinese team added a solid iron lock to compete with players from other countries. A natural chasm is formed between them.
Quan Hongchan, who has grown taller in this World Championships
, did not find any feeling in her three jumps of 207C.
Quan Hongchan is a rare and extremely talented female Taiwanese athlete, even other Chinese players are difficult to compare with. In the women's 10-meter platform final of the Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan's perfect performance with perfect scores in three jumps and close to perfect scores in the remaining two jumps won praise from diving enthusiasts around the world. The 466.20 points she set at that time was an unprecedented record and even an unprecedented record. Chen Yuxi, who won the second place, scored 425.40 points. In terms of absolute talent comparison, Quan Hongchan is better than Chen Yuxi. This little girl who came out of Mazhang Town, Mazhang District, Zhanjiang, used her unparalleled performance in the Olympics to almost break people's understanding of diving. Then at the Shaanxi National Games, Quan Hongchan once again won the championship without any suspense. She was once considered unbeatable at least during the Paris Olympic cycle.
More than half a year has passed, Quan Hongchan has grown taller, and she has also begun to worry about the impact of growth during the developmental period on her tumbling movements. At this World Championships, everyone has seen that her completion of movements in most groups is still very high and perfect, especially in the 6 sets of armstands and 5 sets of turning into the water, with almost no splash. But she also has an "Achilles' heel", which is the 2 sets of backward somersaults into the water, but she can't always do it well. This is because you cannot see the water surface when you roll backwards, and the little girl's feeling of entering the water is always unclear. In fact, this was also the case at the Tokyo Olympics. Quan Hongchan's 207C jump in the preliminaries and semi-finals was not ideal, but just in the most critical final, she found the feeling and scored an amazing 95.70 points (out of 99 points) , which set a historical scoring record for the project. In Budapest, she failed to find the right feeling in three consecutive games, namely the preliminaries, semi-finals and finals, and only scored more than 60 points. This gave the more comprehensive Chen Yuxi a chance to defeat her.
The world competition in the next two years
The two of them are still guaranteed to have the gold medal.
Chen Yuxi is characterized by stable performance, few mistakes, and a general demeanor. All movements are top-notch in the world, and there are no obvious shortcomings.She said before leaving for Budapest that she wanted to win two world championship gold medals. It was no lie, because she believed that her comprehensiveness could add points. This is indeed the case. From the two team test matches before the departure to the three games of this world championship, she won all the sister battles with Quan Hongchan with a slight advantage. The maximum point difference was 13.3 points, and the minimum point difference was 13.3 points. The difference was 0.3 points in the final.
Of course, no matter what, although the two young girls will definitely win or lose in individual events, their competition is based on the premise of ensuring that the Chinese team wins the gold medal. At next year's Fukuoka World Championships, the next year's Doha World Championships, and the Paris Olympics, the two will definitely ensure that the "Dream Team" gold medal is in hand.
