Guangming Daily reporter Wang Dong
The diving competition of the 2022 World Swimming Championships will start in Budapest on June 26, local time. In the first men’s 3-meter springboard diving final, the Chinese team Cao Yuan/Wang Zongyuan won the gold medal with 459.18 points, a good start for the new Chinese diving “Dream Team”, and also for the Chinese team to win the World Swimming Championships. to the sixth gold.
After the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese diving team entered the Paris cycle. For this reason, all four pairs of duos were replaced in the team. In November 2021, the Chinese diving team entered winter training and began preparing for the World Championships in April this year. Cao Yuan, who won three gold medals in three different events at the three Olympics, overcame her shoulder injury and joined forces with Wang Zongyuan to return to the 3-meter springboard.
Chinese players Cao Yuan/Wang Zongyuan win the men’s double three-meter springboard final in the diving event of the 2022 World Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on June 26. The picture shows Cao Yuan (right)/Wang Zongyuan in the game.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
Cao Yuan, 27, and Wang Zongyuan, 20, are Olympic champions. During the Tokyo Olympics cycle, both of them have partnered with Xie Sizhen. At the last Gwangju World Championships, Cao Yuan and Xie Sizhen partnered to win the gold medal in this event.
Although it was the first time to join forces for the World Championships, the combination of Cao Yuan and Wang Zongyuan still showed a good tacit understanding and strength. In the final, the two faced a strong challenge from the British combination Ralph and Harding. Four jumps ahead, the lead of the stable Chinese combination has reached 25 points. In the last two jumps, the British team with a higher degree of difficulty in the complete set of actions performed well. However, with the advantage of points accumulated in the first four jumps, Cao Yuan/Wang Zongyuan won the gold medal with a total score of 459.18 points, 7.47 points ahead of their opponents.
Wang Zongyuan said following the game that he was satisfied with the overall performance of the two, “This game is still quite good. The last move was not resisted a little, but the first five moves are still quite satisfactory. This World Championship is very important for us. It’s the first competition of the Paris cycle.”
Cao Yuan said that this competition has brought growth to the two, “I feel a little regretful regarding the last jump today, so I hope that I can perform better next time through the summary of this competition.”
A total of 17 Chinese diving team members participated in the World Championships, led by 6 Olympic champions Cao Yuan, Quan Hongchan, Chen Yuxi, Zhang Jiaqi, Ren Qian and Wang Zongyuan, participating in all 13 events.
Newcomers make up a larger percentage of the list. After the Tokyo Olympics, veteran veterans such as Shi Tingmao, Wang Han, and Chen Aisen quietly retired, and a group of newcomers were added to the first-line team. The Olympic “Hardware King” Chen Ruolin became the head coach of Quan Hongchan, which attracted more attention. The Chinese diving team said that the goal of the World Championships is the Paris Olympics. Through competitions, the team will be trained, problems and shortcomings will be identified, the ability of young athletes to participate in international competitions will be tempered, and the coaching level of young coaches in the international arena will be improved. Maintain the dominant position of Chinese diving and strive to achieve excellent results.
After officially entering the Paris Olympic cycle, the Chinese diving team has completed a partial “exchange”, and many post-00 players have begun to take on the heavy responsibility of the competition. To this end, in the two months before going to the World Championships, the Chinese team will launch a team test simulation game every weekend, and prepare for the battle while running in the lineup.
In early June this year, the team conducted the last test before the World Championships. Zhou Jihong, the leader of the Chinese diving team, said: “Every test has been improved to a certain extent, especially the synchronization consistency and tacit understanding of the two-person event, but the success probability of the action and the action The quality needs to be further enhanced.”
On the first day of the diving competition, the women’s 10-meter platform diving semi-final was also held. Chinese player Chen Yuxi performed stably in all five jumps, ranking first with a total score of 427 points to advance to the final; Quan Hongchan performed perfectly in the first jump and won four 10 points, but the third jump made a mistake, and finally ranked second with a total score of 413.70 points to advance to the final.
“Guangming Daily” (Version 09, June 28, 2022)
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