The diving dream team still dominates in the face of the all-round competition system, winning 7 gold medals in the first 2 days of the 2025 World Cup finals

In the single event, the all-around competition system is still dominant, and the Chinese diving "dream team", as the host, swept 7 gold medals in the first 2 days of the 2025 FINA Jumping World Cup Finals.

Chen Yuxi (center) won the pinnacle duel of the women's individual 10-meter platform, won gold in all three stops of this season's World Cup, and Quan Hongchan (left) won the silver medal

For the first time, the finals staged at the China Aquatics Center (Water Cube) adopted a new knockout system, and all single events were divided into three stages: preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals.

The new format is a dramatic and spectatorial preliminaries, with 12 players competing for six semi-finals based on their rankings in Mexico and Canada, with 1st versus 12th, 2nd versus 11th, and so on. Each player is free to choose 3 moves, and at the end of the 3 rounds, the player with the highest score advances to the semi-finals.

In the semi-finals, six players are divided into two groups of three players each, and the lowest score is eliminated, and the player must complete the unfinished action in the full diving list. In the final stage, 4 competitors must complete the complete diving list (6 moves for men) and the results will be calculated from scratch.

The whole competition is expected to last about 2 hours, which is a big test of the athletes' will and physical strength, and for the spectators, each jump is a "battle of life and death", and the drama and spectacle continue to be full. After Chen Yuxi's 10-meter platform was sealed, Quan Hongchan won the silver. On the same day, the women's individual 10-meter diving platform staged a peak duel, and finally Chen Yuxi accumulated 431.25 points, and won the gold medal in all three events of this World Cup, Olympic and world champion Quan Hongchan won the silver medal with 409.80 points, and the bronze medalist was Mexico's Estudedillo (332.70 points).

Wang Zongyuan, who won the men's individual 3-meter springboard, believes that the new competition system requires a high degree of concentration and is also a physical challenge

Chen Yuxi defeated France's Gillet with 258.25 points to 175.30 points in the preliminaries, and occupied the top spot in Group 1 with 432.15 points in the semifinals. Quan Hongchan defeated France's Halifax with a score of 261.50 to 178.00 in the preliminaries, and ranked first in Group 2 with a score of 399.25 in the semifinals.

The duo won gold on the first day of the women's double 10m platform, and although this was the first time this season that they competed together, they still scored the highest scores in all five jumps. In the men's individual 3-meter springboard, China also won gold and silver, Wang Zongyuan won the gold medal with 519.25 points in the final, Zheng Jiuyuan won the silver medal with 505.05 points, and Germany's Weissmann won the bronze medal with 430.45 points.