On July 3, in the men's 10-meter platform diving final of the 2022 World Swimming Championships, Chinese player Yang Jian won the championship.
On July 3, after all the diving competitions at the 2022 World Swimming Championships ended, The Chinese team won the trophy for the best diving team. On the night of July 3, Beijing time, as Yang Jian and Yang Hao won the gold and bronze medals in the men's 210-meter platform final, the 2022 FINA Budapest Swimming World Championships also fell. closed the curtain. In the championship competition for all 13 diving events, the gold medal belongs to the Chinese diving team without exception. In addition, they also won 2 silver medals and 2 bronze medals.
Unprecedented
17 athletes swept the championships in 13 events
At the Shanghai World Swimming Championships 11 years ago, the Chinese team had a precedent of monopolizing the championships in all events, but at that time there were only 10 events. As the 2015 World Championships continues to set up new events, the total number of events has now increased to 13. The Chinese team has achieved an unprecedented and unprecedented coverage. The Chinese diving team is worthy of the name of the " dream team " and the hexagonal team. After a partial change after the Tokyo Olympics, it has basically formed the main lineup of the Paris Olympic cycle. The veterans are still strong, and the newcomers have already started. Beam. This significance is more important and pragmatic for the Chinese team itself.
At the Gwangju World Championships three years ago, the Chinese diving team gave up the mixed doubles 23-meter springboard final on the last competition day on the grounds of "scheduling conflicts among the members" and eventually won 12 gold medals. The team's official position is to let male player Yang Hao conserve his strength to ensure the results of the men's singles 10-meter platform, but we can also understand that nothing should be too full. Winning all 13 gold medals will not be a good thing for the entire diving event. This will seriously dampen the enthusiasm of other countries and affect the international development of diving projects. Therefore, it is wise and worthwhile to give up a gold medal in non-Olympic sports to allow the projects to develop in a balanced way.
At this World Championships in Budapest, all the members of the Chinese team did their best and won gold medals one by one. Specifically, a total of 17 players competed in the Hungary Games this time, and only one person failed to win the gold medal. He was the 18-year-old Hubei player Zheng Jiuyuan who participated in the men's 21-meter springboard competition. He won eighth place. Another player went to Budapest with the team, but was replaced before the match. She was the Tokyo Olympics women's doubles 10-meter platform gold medalist and Beijing's Zhang Jiaqi, who originally signed up to participate in the mixed men's and women's team competition. Except for the regrets of these two athletes, as many as 15 people in the Chinese team won medals and all won gold medals. Among them, Wang Zongyuan and Quan Hongchan won three medals, Chen Yuxi, Chen Yiwen, Cao Yuan, Yang Hao, Chang Yani each won two medals. This ratio of the number of participants and the number of gold medals and medals won is probably the first time in the history of world individual sports championships. The Chinese diving team has now reached its heyday.
Olympic events
Women's events are better than men's events
Judging from the 8 Olympic events, generally speaking, women's events are better than men's events, and among women's events, the platform event is better than the springboard event. women's 10-meter platform and women's 3-meter springboard. This time, the four events all ended with the perfect performance of Chinese players, winning the gold medal with a huge points difference. In the past, the situation where the women's skateboard was more stable than the women's table changed slightly this time at the World Championships. First, because the Chinese women's skateboard team has two "novices" who have not participated in the Olympics, and they have to re-establish impression points for the referees. Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi of the
women's channel have already become famous in last year's Tokyo Olympics, and their level is really much higher than that of players from other countries. Their scores are distributed in a cliff-like manner, so they are jointly with China. The team's women's platform level has reached a point where it stands out from the crowd and is impeccable. It is expected that the Chinese women's platform performance during the Paris cycle will be "unparalleled". This is the first time in the 14 years since the 2008 Beijing Olympics that the women's springboard singles has lost a silver medal at the world's top competition, so we should be wary.
A fly in the ointment
Men's springboard and platform are not yet "sit back and relax"
If we still want to analyze the fly in the ointment after winning all the gold medals, it is that some of the four events of men's springboard and men's platform were thrilling, and we are not yet at the point where we can sit back and relax. Some foreign players pose a certain threat to Chinese athletes. The Chinese team won the most thrilling victory in the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard final. The score difference was single digits, and the winner was decided in the last jump. In the men's 10-meter platform final, Yang Jian relied on difficult moves to come from behind to win the gold medal. Yang Hao won the bronze medal. The two were actually wedged between the two by 15-year-old Japanese athlete Tamai Rikuto and won the silver medal. These are all Something to be wary of.
The Chinese team made history by winning all 13 diving gold medals unprecedentedly. Although this is not a good thing for the global promotion of diving, it is enough to prove the strength of the Chinese diving dream team - after the replacement of the old and the new, it can deliver such a brilliant answer.
Text/Reporter Liu Ailin Coordinator/Photo courtesy of Wang Yong
/ Xinhua News Agency
