Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 20 (Reporters Zhou Xin, Liu Yang) On the 20th, the 2022 FINA Diving World Cup kicked off in Berlin, Germany. On the first day, there will be four single-person preliminaries.
FINA stated on its official website that the two "China Derbys" are the most noteworthy: the women's 10-meter platform contest between the Tokyo Olympic champion Quan Hongchan and the two-time World Championship champion Chen Yuxi, and the Olympic three-time gold medalist Cao Yuan and Shan. World Championships "Triple Crown" Wang Zongyuan's men's 3-meter springboard duel.
The World Cup will be held from the 20th to the 23rd, with 60 players from 13 teams participating in 9 competitions.
The schedule has been simplified: after the preliminaries, the 4 single events will go directly to the finals without semi-finals; 4 doubles and 1 mixed team events have only the finals.
This means that players no longer have to gradually adjust from the preliminaries, semi-finals to finals, and need to quickly enter the best state.
Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi are partners on the double 10-meter platform, but they are competitors in the single race.
At that time, 14-year-old Quan Hongchan won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, scoring 24 out of 10 points, and Chen Yuxi won the runner-up.
At this year's World Swimming Championships in Budapest, Chen Yuxi won the women's championship, and Quan Hongchan won the silver medal.
Therefore, the ownership of the women's 10-meter platform champion of the Berlin World Cup is a major attraction of the event.
The men's 3-meter springboard is also a contest between "opponents" and "partners": 27-year-old famous player Cao Yuan "does both on the board and platform", won the gold medal in the men's double 10-meter platform at the London Olympics, and won the single 3-meter springboard at the Rio Olympics Champion, the Tokyo Olympics ushered in the peak moment of reaching the top of the single 10-meter platform; Wang Zongyuan was the Tokyo Olympics 3-meter springboard double champion and single-person runner-up, and won the singles, doubles 3-meter springboard and 1-meter springboard at the World Championships in Budapest. the gold medal.
The Chinese team sent 9 players to compete in 8 World Cup events and did not participate in mixed team competitions.
In addition to the highlights of FINA's "calling", the Chinese team Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani will compete in the women's single and double 3-meter springboard, Yang Jian and Yang Hao will participate in the men's single 10-meter platform, and Yang Hao and Lian Junjie will compete together Men's double 10m platform.
The Diving World Cup was held for the first time in 1979. It is the world's highest-level individual event in diving. It is also known as the "Three World Diving Competitions" together with the World Swimming Championships and the Olympic Games.
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