World Championships: China Sweep Golds, with Bronze for U.S. Males
China picked up two extra gold medals on the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. The boys’s 10-meter synchro concerned a final-round lead change, a profitable margin of lower than a degree and a spot for the American males to on the rostrum in bronze place.
Chen Jia and Chen Yiwen received gold in girls’s 3-meter synchro, a sometimes dominant efficiency for the world’s preeminent diving energy that resulted in 325.20 factors, a profitable margin of 26.85 and the lead after each spherical.
The boys’s platform synchro, nevertheless, was fascinating, even when it ended with China atop the rostrum for the seventh time in eight occasions in Singapore. After main all through prelims and the primary three rounds of finals, the duo of Cheng Zilong and Zhu Zhifeng missed their fourth dive, placing up simply 60.18 factors for the bottom rating of eight tandems within the ultimate that despatched them briefly to 3rd.
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However the bobble was momentary, the duo delivering the very best dive of every of the final two rounds to climb to second, then first, 0.93 factors forward of the Impartial Athletes B duo of Nikita Shleikher and Ruslan Ternovoi.
Cheng and Zhu trailed by 20.88 factors after their Spherical 4 miscue. They scored 87.69 on the fifth spherical, whereas the NAB duo received 79.92 on the identical 109C.
Each groups lined up 5255Bs for the ultimate spherical. The NAB pair hit it for 76.68, with a cushion of 13.11 factors. It practically survived, with Cheng and Zhu changing for 90.72 factors, the best rating of the finals to only claw as much as gold.
Joshua Hedberg and Carson Tyler of america; Picture Courtesy: World Aquatics/Singapore 2025
“We believed in one another,” Cheng stated. “Throughout our coaching, we didn’t actually have that many points, so we simply trusted one another. I trusted in (Zhu) for Dive 109C and Dive 5255B and I trusted that we’d be capable of shut it out. These should not troublesome for him, and in coaching we’re not unhealthy. It was all about mutual belief.”
Individuals Joshua Hedberg and Carson Tyler additionally completed robust, getting bronze for his or her efforts. They have been eighth after two rounds, however by way of the second-best dives of the fourth and fifth rounds, they began to climb up from fifth. They hit for at least 79.92 factors on every of their final three dives, with that complete within the ultimate spherical sealing bronze.
For Tyler, the medal is his second at Worlds, becoming a member of bronze at platform combined synchro in Budapest in 2022.
“It means so much,” Tyler stated. “It’s been a protracted highway of coaching, getting back from the Olympics…we actually put a number of effort into this medal, so it means a ton.”
“That is my first senior world medal, and I can’t be happier,” Hedberg stated. “I believe we simply tried to step it up for the finals, dive when it counts, and simply carry out our greatest.”
The Individuals completed practically 12 factors forward of British duo Kyle Kothari and Robbie Lee. The Ukrainian duo of Mark Hrytsenko and Oleskii Sereda as fifth.
Cheng is in his first World Championships; that is his second gold, together with China profitable the combined group occasion. Zhu has combined 3-meter synchro gold from 2022 and 2023, however that is his first Worlds medal on platform.
One needn’t fear about such intrigue within the girls’s 3-meter synchro. Chen and Chen of China led after each spherical and had the highest-scoring dive of every of the 5 rounds to tally 325.20.
That’s the ninth medal and eighth purpose for Chen Yiwen.
“I believe it’s been a clean competitors for us,” she stated. “We have been fairly nervous throughout coaching these few days and have been a bit tight. I believe that affected the competitors a little bit bit; we have been a little bit conservative. I suppose you may say we’re fairly partnership. We’re all high-level athletes, and we all know how one can deal with issues, our chemistry, and do what we have to do for a contest.”
Britain’s Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen, the bronze medalists in Paris final summer season, have been second to China with a rating of 298.35, 4 factors away from the Mexico’s Lia Cueva Lobato and Mia Cueva Lobato, 14-year-old twins.
“We’re very joyful and actually happy,” Harper stated. “Coming off the again of final yr’s Olympic medal, we have been positively setting the expectation of a medal once more. But additionally, we have been actually specializing in the efficiency right now, so we’re actually happy that we carried out properly and ended up with a silver medal.”
Australia completed fourth, with 1-meter champ Maddison Keeney teaming with Alysha Koloi. The American duo of Bailee Sturgill and Lily Witte completed seventh.
