China News Service, Beijing, February 8th: The Doha World Swimming Championships will continue on the 7th local time. Wang Zongyuan, the main springboard player of the Chinese team, won the championship in the men's single 3-meter diving with a total score of 538.70 points, winning this focus battle. Chinese combination Chen Yiwen/Chang Yani performed steadily and successfully defended their title in the women's synchronized 3-meter diving board.
Tokyo Olympics men's springboard double champion and Chinese player Xie Siyi returned to the World Championships stage, which put a certain amount of pressure on Wang Zongyuan. In the preliminaries and semi-finals of the men's single 3-meter springboard, Wang Zongyuan made varying degrees of errors in the fifth jump and ranked behind Xie Sizhen in both rounds to advance to the finals.
In the final, Wang Zongyuan defeated his teammate Xie Sizhen with his active adjustments and good on-the-spot performance. Wang Zongyuan led the way in the first four jumps, and solved his movement problems in the fifth jump. Finally, in the sixth jump, he scored over 100% in a single jump and firmly won the gold medal, achieving his third consecutive championship in this event at the World Championships. . Veteran Xie Siyu won the silver medal, and Mexican star Ibarra won the bronze medal.
In the women's synchronized 3-meter springboard final, Chinese combination Chen Yiwen/Chang Yani made their second appearance. The performance of the two people in the first two jumps was not ideal and some mistakes were made. Fortunately, they cooperated tacitly and gradually entered the rhythm of the finals, and finally successfully defended the title with a total score of 323.43 points.
Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani were not satisfied with their performance in this game. Chen Yiwen said that he was very happy to be able to defend the gold medal, but he did not perform to the level of the training stage in today's final. Chang Yani believed that she made mistakes in two prescribed actions, which affected her results in the first two rounds.
"But after problems occur, I believe that both of us can adjust in time and find our own rhythm in the game." Chen Yiwen said.
In the synchronized swimming competition, 16-year-old Chinese teenager Yang Shuncheng, who has already won a gold medal, failed to win the double crown and ranked fourth in the men's single free choice final. Italy's Minisini won the gold medal, with Spain's Gonzalez and Colombia's Sanchez finishing second and third respectively.
On the 8th local time, the World Swimming Championships in Doha will hold two finals of the men's synchronized 10-meter platform diving and the women's synchronized swimming free synchronized free choice. The last event in open water, the men's and women's mixed 4x1500-meter relay, will also determine the gold medal. (over)