On the 29th local time, the competition for the diving event of the 2022 World Swimming Championships continued in Budapest, Hungary.

In the just-concluded mixed all-around final, both 15-year-old Quan Hongchan and Bai Yuming won the championship.

This is the first world championship gold medal for the two and the 100th world championship gold medal belonging to the Chinese diving team!

Quan Hongchan in the competition Image source: Visual China

  For the two players, this game is of special significance: this is the first time that Quan Hongchan has competed for the springboard in an international competition, and it is also Bai Yuming's world championship debut.

  Many viewers may not know much about the diving mixed all-around event, which was included in the swimming world championships in 2015.

Lin Shan/Yang Jian won the championship in 2019, which was the only gold medal in the event won by the Chinese team in the past three World Championships.

Data map: Olympic champion Quan Hongchan

  Mixed all-around diving is very entertaining, and it also puts forward higher requirements on the comprehensive ability of the contestants.

According to the rules, the mixed all-around competition is divided into six rounds. The two players who play together must not only cover the platform and springboard in their three jumps, but also complete the forward, backward, reflex, inward, turn, arm stand. Wait for all six groups of movements.

  The Chinese team originally planned to use Zhang Jiaqi to play the mixed all-around, and finally Quan Hongchan and Bai Yuming were the partners.

Both Quan Hongchan and Bai Yuming mainly use springboards. They are similar in age and both are competing in the World Championships for the first time.

In the women's 10-meter platform final that ended earlier, Olympic champion Quan Hongchan made her world championship debut and won a silver medal.

On June 27, 2022 local time, in Budapest, Hungary, the 2022 World Swimming Championships diving women's single 10m springboard award ceremony.

Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan won the championship and runner-up.

Image source: IC photo

  Bai Yuming is from Yulin, Shaanxi Province. He began to emerge at the Shaanxi National Games last year and won four medals in total, two golds and two bronzes in the youth and senior competitions.

Especially in the senior men's 10-meter platform diving competition of the master Ru Lin, Bai Yuming, who was only 14 years old at the time, won the seventh place.

  Bai Yuming not only started diving early, but also trained very hard on weekdays. He is regarded as the future star of Chinese diving.

Through his unremitting efforts, at the age of 15, he won this valuable training opportunity at the World Championships.

Introduction of FINA Bai Yuming

  In tonight's game, Quan Hongchan's first and third jumps are the springboards.

In the first round of the springboard debut, Quan Hongchan chose the action 405C with a difficulty coefficient of 2.7, which was effectively divided into two 8.0 and one 7.5, and finally scored 63.45 points.

  In the second jump of the individual, Quan Hongchan, who climbed the ten-meter platform, performed the arm-standing action that he is good at, and got a high score of 88.00 after a perfect jump.

  Bai Yuming's first jump was slightly flawed, but he adjusted in time to complete the second jump with high quality.

Bai Yuming in the mixed all-around competition Photo credit: IC photo

  In the last jump of the two, Quan Hongchan on the springboard and Bai Yuming on the platform successfully completed their respective actions. The Chinese team finished the race with a total score of 382.00 and won the championship.

This is the 100th World Championship gold medal of the Chinese diving team!

  The Chinese diving team is known as the "Dream Team", and the results of the World Championships 100 gold have once again confirmed this.

Up to now, the diving project of this World Swimming Championships has ended the competition of 5 individual events, and the Chinese diving team has won all 5 gold medals.

For the rest of the competition, the Chinese team was the favorite to win the championship in every event, including the women's doubles 10-meter platform diving where Quan Hongchan partnered with Chen Yuxi.

  Let's take a look at netizens' comments on Quan Hongchan's springboard debut:

Screenshots of social networking sites

  Dream Team, keep going!

  (Reporter Yue Chuan from Chinanews.com)