Bai Yuming
Zhou Jihong
Tian Liang
Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia
Quan Hongchan
On the evening of June 29th, Beijing time, the 2022 Budapest World Swimming Championships ended at the Danube Sports Center in the men's and women's mixed team diving competition. Bai Yuming and Quan Hongchan, both 15 years old, represented the Chinese team and finally won the championship with 391.40 points. This is the fifth gold medal for the diving team since the start of this World Championships. It is the first gold medal for the two teenagers Quan Hongchan and Bai Yuming at the World Championships. It is also the 100th gold medal in the history of China's diving World Championships. " Dream Team " A new milestone was reached.
Two people each complete 3 actions.
Athletes must balance the platform and platform.
The mixed team competition for men and women was only established in 2015. It will not appear in the Olympic Games at present. The rules of the mixed team competition simply put that a delegation must send two players of different genders to participate, each completing 3 actions, and the final ranking will be determined by the total score of all 6 actions of the two people. This competition requires a mix of genders, a mix of platform events, and a mix of categories on the diving chart. Athletes from each team must take both platform and platform into account. One athlete cannot only perform platform movements or only springboard movements. It must be completed in the form of two platform + one springboard or two springboard + one platform. This must be done by two people. All 6 jumps must include all 6 groups of forward, backward, reflexive, inward, turning and arm stance, and no group can be missed.
Although the Chinese team is known as the diving "dream team", it failed to win the championship in the first two competitions when the project was established. In the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, the Chinese team sent Xie Sizhen / Chen Ruolin to compete and finally won the bronze medal. In the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, the Chinese team sent Qiu Bo / Chen Yiwen to compete, but they only ranked sixth. It was not until the last Gwangju World Championships that the Chinese team, partnered by Yang Jian and Lin Shan, won the championship in this event for the first time. The fact that the Chinese team won the championship only three times after this event was established is not because of insufficient level. First, the mixed team is not an Olympic event, and the Chinese team's focus is not here; second, there is no need to try its best to win gold medals in all events.
The sum of the difficulty coefficients is not the highest
All red Chan Bai Yuming won the championship with all his strength
In this world championship, the female athlete of the Chinese team who originally signed up to participate in this event was the Tokyo Olympics women's synchronized 10-meter platform champion Zhang Jiaqi , but on the evening of June 28 , in the registration list provided by the Chinese team to FINA , the female player was replaced by Quan Hongchan, who had just won the women's 510-meter platform silver medal. The Chinese team did not explain the reasons for the personnel changes. Although it is a pity that Zhang Jiaqi cannot appear, the audience and sports fans who like Quan Hongchan can watch "Chan Bao" perform one more time. A total of 13 pairs of players in
participated in the mixed men's and women's team competition. Although the Chinese team's total difficulty coefficient is not the highest at 16.2, the overall level of the two participating athletes is undoubtedly the highest. Needless to say, Quan Hongchan is the gold medal winner in the women's 10-meter platform at the Tokyo Olympic Games and the winner of the highest score in the history of this event. Bai Yuming is a young man from Shaanxi. He won four medals in a row, 2 golds and 2 bronzes, in the U-14 age group diving competition at the National Games last year. He is a rising star in the jumping world.
In the end, China's teenage girl group easily won the championship. Quan Hongchan and Bai Yuming became the witnesses and first-hand experiencers of the 100-gold milestone of China's diving "Dream Team". They were very honored.
Wonderful Record In the
competition, except for Bai Yuming's first platform jump move 207C (backward somersault three and a half weeks and tuck), which made some mistakes, the two men performed well in the other five moves. And Quan Hongchan took on two springboard moves at once, which not only completed it well, but also gave people a refreshing feeling. 405C (inward somersault for two and a half weeks and tuck in the knees) is crisp and neat, and 5231D (backward somersault for one and a half turns and half turn) is extremely light, making a very simple diving action so perfect, the body in the air is like a swallow, and entering the water is graceful like a mermaid. .When she completed the 6243D of her main event (backward somersault two weeks and one and a half turns), she once again conquered the judges and the audience with the water splash disappearing technique, and received a high score of 88.00.
Focus on
"Swordsman" Over the past forty years, talents have emerged in large numbers and will never fade
Within 4 and a half hours from the afternoon to the evening of June 29, local time in Budapest, the Chinese diving team won the 2022 FINA Swimming World Championships won three gold medals, bringing their total number of gold medals to 102 in the 36-year history of this competition. Among them, two 15-year-old girls, Bai Yuming and Quan Hongchan, won the mixed team championship. It was the 100th gold medal of the "Dream Team" in the World Championships, which is a milestone.
The Chinese diving team has gone from having no participants to becoming the backbone of international competitive diving, and now dominates the world of diving. Countless divers have made arduous efforts for this. Diving has long become the trump card event of Chinese sports. It not only dominates the international arena, but also has a large number of talents that will never fade away and will surely extend this dominance for a long time.
first showed its talents
In 1986, Gao Min won the first gold medal at the World Championships.
The Chinese diving team did not officially participate in the highest level international aquatic event organized by FINA until the 4th World Championships in 1982. However, in Ecuador There was no gold medal in this tournament. At that time, it was Zhou Jihong, the current leader of this "Dream Team" and the current chairman of the Chinese Swimming Association, who won a bronze medal in the women's 10 platform competition and opened the medal account of the Chinese diving team. Her teammate Peng Yuanchun Winning the third place in the women's 53-meter springboard competition, the Chinese team started to win medals at the World Championships. Like many events, it still started with the women's event.
The significance of these two medals is that China's competitive sports decision-makers have seen the development potential of Chinese athletes in diving: this is a sports competition that fully emphasizes skills and is very suitable for our Chinese athletes. So after vigorous popularization and promotion, the arrival of the gold medal came naturally.
At the 1986 World Championships in Madrid, Gao Min won China's first gold medal at the World Championships on the women's 3-meter springboard. Chen Lin and Lu Wei also made breakthroughs in the women's 10-meter platform, winning first and second place. Since then, it has become extremely "easy" for the Chinese diving team to win gold medals, constantly achieving new breakthroughs, and constantly emerging world-class players and even legendary athletes. Also at that World Championships, Tan Liangde and Li Hongping won the second and third place in the men's 3-meter springboard, Li Kongzheng won the runner-up in the men's 10-meter platform . Chinese male athletes also began to become medal recipients. ranks.
The results of the Chinese team continued to improve in the following two World Championships. Excellent athletes such as Gao Min, Fu Mingxia, Sun Shuwei, Yu Zhuocheng, etc. continued to compete for gold and silver for the Chinese team. Among them, Sun Shuwei and Yu Zhuocheng respectively became the Chinese men's team in the World Championships. The first gold medal winner in the 10-meter platform and 3-meter springboard. In 1998, FINA continued to innovate and added synchronized diving events for the first time. Due to lack of preparation, the Chinese team happened to be in the transition from old to new, and only won three gold medals in 10 competition events, namely men's 1-meter springboard, men's doubles 3-meter springboard, men's doubles 10-meter platform, and 5 women's events. There will be no grain harvest. In terms of the proportion of gold medals won, this World Championships is not a success for the Chinese team, which has become a world diving power.
The glorious era
The emergence of outstanding players such as Guo Jingjing and Tian Liang in the new century
The Chinese diving team has truly entered the most glorious era, and began to be called the "Dream Team". In fact, it began in the new century. The 2001 Fukuoka World Championships was the first swimming championship in the 21st century. The emergence of "Queen of Diving" Guo Jingjing and outstanding men's platform player Tian Liang, etc., led to the overall improvement of the performance and dominance of the Chinese diving team. At that World Championships, Guo Jingjing and Tian Liang each won 2 gold medals. Only the men's 3-meter springboard and the women's 1-meter springboard failed to reach the top podium. The team won 8 gold medals in 10 events.
At the subsequent World Championships in Barcelona and Montreal, the Chinese diving team experienced a brief "downturn" and only won about half of the gold medals in a single event.But starting from Melbourne in 2007, it has completely entered the track of rapid development and gold medal monopoly. Here we must mention the "Queen of Diving" Guo Jingjing. During the eight years from the 2001 Fukuoka World Championships to the 2009 Rome World Championships, she won the gold medal in the women's 3-meter springboard single and double events at the World Championships five times in a row. , setting an unprecedented record, making this Olympic event the exclusive preserve of the Chinese diving team. Subsequently, with the efforts of Wu Minxia, He Zi, Shi Tingmao and other athletes, the women's springboard event has since Never missed a gold medal.
continues the dream
won 10 gold medals at the 2011 Shanghai World Championships
From the Melbourne World Championships to the last Gwangju World Championships and then to the current Budapest, in these eight competitions, generations of Chinese divers have continued to inherit and inherit through their own efforts. It has inherited the glorious tradition of its predecessors and continued the glory of the "Dream Team". During this period, in addition to the women's springboard talents mentioned above, He Chong, Qin Kai, Cao Yuan, Xie Sizhen, Lin Yue, Qiu Bo, Chen Aisen and other outstanding men's platform players, Chen Ruolin, Ren Qian, Si Yajie , Zhang Jiaqi, Chen Yuxi, Quan Hongchan and other female platform athletes are better than their predecessors, and young talents are constantly emerging.
During this period, at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, the Chinese team won 7 gold medals; at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, the Chinese diving team at home lived up to the expectations of the Chinese people and won all 10 gold medals in the diving events of the World Championships for the first time; in 2013 At the Barcelona World Championships, the Chinese diving team won 9 gold medals, except for the men's doubles 10-meter platform championship. At the 2015 Kazan World Championships and the 2017 Budapest World Championships, the Chinese diving team won 10 gold medals and 8 gold medals respectively. Of course, while winning excellent results in these World Championships, the "Dream Team" also left some regrets - it failed to win the women's 10-meter platform championship in two consecutive World Championships, and also failed to win the 2017 World Championships in Budapest. Won the men's 10-meter platform and men's doubles 3-meter springboard gold medals.
At the 2019 Gwangju World Swimming Championships, the Chinese diving team took the fight for gold and silver to the extreme. After winning 12 consecutive gold medals and taking silver medals in all individual events, the Chinese team gave up the right to the finals when it easily broke through the preliminaries in the last mixed 3-meter springboard event. This decision was entirely strategic because "there must always be some room left for others to be interested in participating and to win medals." This is the confidence, strength and status of the Chinese diving team. In the singles competition, athletes from other countries compete for the bronze medal; in the pairs competition, athletes from other countries can only compete for the silver medal.
html After 240 years of ups and downs, it has left behind a hundred gold medals. There are still 6 gold medals in this world championship waiting for the athletes of the "Dream Team" to compete for. In the future, there are countless honors waiting for the Chinese diving team to receive.This article/Reporter Liu Ailin
coordinator/Photo courtesy of Du Rui/Xinhua News Agency
information picture courtesy/ Visual China
