World College Video games: China Wins 12 of 15 Diving Golds
China received gold in 12 of the 15 diving occasions on the World College Video games, held this week in Berlin, Germany.
The Chinese language athletes took 20 whole medals, with eight silvers, on the Europe SportsPark Aquatics Heart. The opposite three medals went to German divers, with solely 4 nations of the 19 competing getting on the medal desk.
America took dwelling 9 medals, however no gold, and South Korea added seven medals.
Wang Weiying led the best way for China with 5 medals, 4 of them gold. She managed each gold within the 3-meter springboard and silver on platform plus 3-meter girls’s synchro gold and blended platform synchro gold.
World College Video games Diving Medal Desk
(g-s-b—t)
China 12-8-0—20
Germany 3-2-4—9
United States 0-4-5—9
South Korea 0-1-6—7
Males’s platform synchro gold medalists Zheng Junzhi and Mo Yonghua received 4 medals every, as did springboard diver Hu Yukang. Ouyang Yu received girls’s 1-meter springboard and teamed with Wang to win the ladies’s 3-meter synchro.
The meet began on a down notice for the Chinese language contingent, although, with the German duo of Lena Hentschel and Luis Avila Sanchez successful the blended 3-meter synchro. China’s Fan Yi and Mei Yingxin produced the sixth-best dives of every of the primary two rounds, digging a gap from which they didn’t escape. Hentschel-Avila Sanchez scored 288.21, besting the Chinese language pair by 12.8 factors.
China bounced again shortly, with He Yanwei and Lu Wei main start-to-finish within the girls’s platform synchro, scoring 330.18 factors. They had been 35 factors away from Germany’s of Pauline Pfeif and Carolina Coordes.
Germany’s Moritz Wesemann equipped essentially the most thrilling occasion of the meet within the males’s 3-meter springboard ultimate. The Paris Olympian who dives at USC was eighth after one spherical and fifth after two. However three 80-point dives allowed him to leap from second to first within the ultimate spherical to attain 454.20 factors and find yourself 5.75 factors forward of Hu for gold. The opposite Chinese language diver, Zhang Wenao, was first after three rounds earlier than producing the Twelfth-, Eleventh- and ninth-best dives of the ultimate three rounds to plummet to seventh.
China’s 3-meter girls’s synchro pairing of Ouyang and Wang scored 294.90 factors, main wire-to-wire. The American duo of Lanie Gutch and Ellie Joyce landed second with a rating of 265.98, leapfrogging Hentschel and Jette Muller within the ultimate spherical.
The lads’s platform ultimate was a two-man battle between the Chinese language divers, with Zheng scoring 455.10 to edge his synchro companion Mo by 6.4 factors. Kim Yeong-taek of South Korea was third. The duo got here again the following day with a start-to-finish in synchro, scoring 437.31 factors and delivering the very best dive in 4 of six rounds to complete 36.6 factors up on the German duo of Jaden Eikermann and Avila Sanchez.
On girls’s platform, Lu and Wang went forwards and backwards. Wang led for the primary two rounds earlier than Lu scored 87.45 and 89.10 on consecutive dives to take management and rating 400.35 factors. That was 13.2 factors forward of her countrywoman, with Pfeif greater than 30 factors away from American Sophia McAfee for bronze.
Wang had no such bobbles on 3-meter springboard, main after each spherical and scoring 344.25 factors. She was 25.7 factors forward of teammate Qu Zhixin, who by no means fairly recovered from recognizing Wang 16 factors in seventh place within the first spherical. Hentschel jumped teammate Muller within the fifth and ultimate spherical to get bronze by two-tenths of a degree.
China’s regular dominance was in place by the ultimate two days of the meet. Zhang led for all however the first spherical of the lads’s 1-meter springboard ultimate, scoring 425.85 factors to dominate by 57 factors. Second was Hu, although dramatically so, sitting seventh on the halfway level and fourth earlier than a 72-point ultimate dive vaulted him to silver. Max Miller of the U.S. had been second earlier than the Twelfth-best dive of the ultimate spherical dropped him to fifth.
On the ultimate night time, Ouyang and Wang Yi went 1-2 in girls’s springboard, the previous scoring 273.85 to beat her teammate by 7.60 factors.
Zhang and Hu received the lads’s 3-meter synchro ultimate with a rating of 412.62, forward of the sector at each flip. People Joshua Sollenberger and Luke Sitz completed second with a rating of 380.34. China additionally received the four-team blended platform synchro through Zheng and Wang Weiying with a rating of 341.94.
The People ended up with 4 silver and 5 bronze, with silver within the girls’s group competitors and bronze within the males’s. Sitz augmented his synchro silver with 3-meter springboard bronze. Gutch supplemented her silver on 3-meter springboard synchro with bronze on platform synchro alongside Kayleigh Clark. Joyce acquired a second medal by pairing with Miller for bronze in blended 3-meter synchro, and McAfee acquired her medal alongside Kaden Springfield in blended platform synchro with a silver end.
The American males’s platform duo of Max Weinrich and Sprint Glasberg was ranked second after three dives of the six-round ultimate however slipped to fourth, six-tenths of a degree off the rostrum.
The opposite particular person American medal got here from Avery Giese, who acquired bronze on girls’s 1-meter. Miller was ninth in males’s 3-meter and fifth in 1-meter, whereas Weinrich completed seventh and Drew Bennett ninth in males’s platform.
Behind McAfee’s fourth-place end on platform, Taylor Fox completed sixth for the U.S. Katerina Hoffman completed fifth for the U.S. on girls’s 3-meter, with Giese tenth.
Hentschel, the German Olympic bronze medalist who dove for Ohio State, earned bronze medals on 3-meter and 3-meter synchro to go along with the 3-meter blended synchro gold. Pfeif received one medal of every coloration, together with the blended group occasion.
Kim Yeong-taek ended up with six medals, together with bronze in males’s platform and silver within the males’s group competitors.
