Then he made a mistake and ended up in eighth place.
html On June 30, Wang Zongyuan was between games. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong At the 2019 Gwangju World Championships, 17-year-old Wang Zongyuan became the youngest world championship champion in the men's 1-meter springboard event. This time he successfully defended his title and won the ninth gold medal for the Chinese diving team in this world championship. Wang Zongyuan, who had already won two gold medals in the men's single and double 3-meter springboard, achieved the "triple crown" and successfully completed the competition.
In the last 12 World Championships in this event, the Chinese team has won 11 gold medals. Looking at the winning records of the men's 1-meter springboard at the World Championships, Chinese athletes won 22 of the 42 medals.
html On June 30, Wang Zongyuan was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong html In the preliminaries on the 30th, Wang Zongyuan and Zheng Jiuyuan ranked second and third respectively. In the final, Wang Zongyuan performed nearly perfectly, leading every trial jump, and finally won the gold medal with a rare high score of 493.30. Zheng Jiuyuan made a mistake during the 107B jump attempt in the fourth round. His single jump score was at the bottom among the 12 contestants, and he dropped to third place overall. The next two jumps were affected by errors and his performance was poor. After the fifth jump, he dropped to fifth place and finally finished in eighth place. British diving star Laffer won the silver medal with 426.95 points, and Li Shixin, a former Chinese national team member who represented the Australian team after retirement, won the bronze medal. Li Shixin, 34, represented the Chinese team twice and won the gold medal in this event at the World Championships in 2011 and 2013.
html On June 30, Wang Zongyuan was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong Wang Zongyuan concluded after the game: "The 1-meter springboard final is the seventh competition I have participated in this time (including the preliminaries). I was a little worse at mobilizing myself in the morning preliminaries. There are some problems with the whole set of movements. I will try to find a way to do it in the finals." Perfect. I was more focused, focused, and calm in the finals, and I was very satisfied with my performance."
said about the rare high score of 493.30, "I have never skipped such a high score in the 1-meter springboard. It was very unexpected. When I jumped down, I didn’t pay attention to the score. I was thinking about the next move. When I saw the score at the end of the jump, I was shocked. "
html On June 30, Wang Zongyuan greeted the audience after the jump. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong Wang Zongyuan, who won three consecutive championships, believes that his sustained and stable performance in different events is due to the pre-match system simulation training and testing.
"The schedules of these three events are very close. Through the team's simulation test, I felt the challenges in many aspects such as physical fitness. When preparing for the competition, I learned how to allocate physical fitness and energy, knew how to adjust, and did a lot of homework in advance. It was only through preparation that we achieved today’s good results.” Wang Zongyuan said.
html On June 30, Zheng Jiuyuan was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong Zheng Jiuyuan, who is only 18 years old, participated in the World Championships for the first time. After the game, he admitted that he was a little nervous during the game and did not perform as well as he should.
"Compared with the training level, it is still a little worse. It is not good to let go and enter the water. The preliminaries are normal. If the 107B set of moves in the preliminaries is passed to the finals, the result may be much better." Zheng Jiuyuan said, "The first The five-jump 205C is a problem that I usually struggle to overcome in training. I really wanted to do well in the last jump, but I didn’t achieve the desired results. I went back and continued to work hard to catch up with Zongyuan.”
Editor: Ding Wenxian, Huang Xuguo, and Zheng Zhi
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