2024 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS – DIVING
China roared onto the scene on days 3 and 4 of the diving competitors on the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, together with the primary massive head-to-head of the competitors thus far within the girls’s platform competitors.
Day 3: Males’s 3 Meter Synchro
China sat out the primary two days of diving competitors in Doha, eschewing the 1-meter and crew occasions that aren’t a part of the Olympic schedule.
However on day 3, they roared again with a dominating efficiency in males’s 3-meter synchro competitors, with Lengthy Daoyi and Wang Zongyuan scoring 442.41 factors, practically 60 factors forward of their closest competitors.
China (Lengthy Daoyi/Wang Zongyuan) – 442.41
Italy (Lorenzo Marsaglia/Giovanni Tocci) – 384.24
Spain (Adrian Abadia/Nicolas Garcia) – 383.23
Mexico (Rodrigo Diego/Osmar Olvera) – 383.19
Nice Britain (Anthony Harding/Jack Laugher) – 376.26
Ukraine (Oleh Kolodiy/Danlylo Konovalov) – 363.12
Poland (Kacper Lesiak/Andrzej Szeszutek) – 362.04
South Korea (Yi Jae-gyeong/Kim Yeong-taek) – 351.21
The Chinese language have been dominant, with probably the most tough dive schedule and the very best level in each spherical besides the 2nd (the place they have been tied for thirteenth within the obligatory dives, the place there’s not a lot room to be misplaced).
The remainder of the ultimate, although, was a wild affair, with silver, bronze, and 4th place separated by simply 1.05 factors.
That included a historic bronze medal for the Spanish pair Adrian Abadia and Nicolas Garcia, who took the primary diving medal of their nation’s historical past.
Mexico has been off to a scorching begin at these World Championships, with three medals within the first two days of competitors, however a flop on the third dive, scoring simply 51 factors (Twenty second-best out of 27 groups within the finals). Whereas they have been excellent and medal-worthy on each different spherical, the 15/23 factors they misplaced versus their main rivals was a hill they couldn’t overcome.
The American pair of Andrew Capobianco and Quentin Henninger completed ninth, whereas the Frenchmen Jules Bouyer and Alexis Jandard, who gained bronze ultimately yr’s World Championships, have been simply twelfth right here, by no means actually within the battle.
Day 4: Ladies’s 10-Meter Platform
Quan Hongchan, the Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo at solely 14-years outdated, lastly acquired the proverbial monkey off her again by profitable the ladies’s 10-meter platform on Monday in Doha.
She had been the runner-up at every of the previous two World Championships behind her countrymate Chen Yuxi, the three-time defending World Champion on this occasion, who is simply 18 herself.
The 2 Chinese language divers soared forward of the sector as the one two divers north of 400 factors. In addition they mixed for seven excellent 10 rankings from judges, with Quan incomes 5 and Chen two.
Quan Hongchan, China – 436.25
Chen Yuxi, China – 427.80
Andrea Spendolini-Sireix, Nice Britain – 377.10
Kim Mi-rae, North Korea – 349.10
Sarah Jodoin Di Maria, Italy – 322.15
Louis Toulson, Nice Britain – 321.60
Gabriela Agundez, Mexico – 316.30
Caeli McKay, Canada – 310.05
“It’s a very stunning feeling to carry it in my hand,” Quan stated of her gold medal. “I additionally assume the mascot [whale shark] could be very cute. After this competitors, my subsequent goal is the Olympic gold. I want to make extra progress. There aren’t any limits. I don’t put an excessive amount of strain on myself as a result of I’m nonetheless younger.”
She tempered her pleasure, although, acknowledging a number of errors on her again dives, saying “I’m not as excited as you concentrate on profitable this gold medal. Really, I don’t assume I did my finest at the moment. I made a few errors in my again dives.”
But when she struggled there, the judges didn’t discover. On her 4th dive, a again 3 1/2 (207C), she scored 4 excellent 10s from seven judges. The 97.35 factors she scored on that dive was the very best by any diver within the closing.
The 2 American divers, Katrina Younger (twentieth) and Daryn Wright (twenty fourth) didn’t advance out of prelims.
