2025 Diving World Cup Finals: Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan won the championship and runner-up, and China dominated the medal table

03/05/2025 21:40:00 baseball

On May 3, Beijing time, the 2025 Diving World Cup Finals ushered in the second day of competition at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. The men's single 3-meter springboard Wang Zongyuan and Zheng Jiuyuan won the championship and second place, and the women's single 10-meter platform Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan won the gold and silver, and the Chinese team rode the dust in the medal table.

Women's single 10-meter platform Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan won gold and silver

On May 3, Beijing time, the high-profile 2025 Diving World Cup Finals ushered in the second day of competition at the "Water Cube" of the Beijing National Aquatics Center.

Two gold medals in the singles event will be awarded on the same day, with Wang Zongyuan and Zheng Jiuyuan competing in the men's 3m springboard with British star Jack Lovell; And Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi's "fairy fight" in the women's single 10-meter platform is highly anticipated, and the duel between the two is the biggest highlight of this finals.

What's more, FINA debuts its long-awaited new competition format, which will feature a new knockout format for all individual events, which will not only improve the spectacle of diving competitions, but also test the tactics, physical fitness and ability to withstand pressure.

According to the rules, all players must participate in the first two races and be in the top 12 points in order to qualify for the Grand Final.

The finals of the single event are divided into three knockout stages. In the first stage of the preliminary round, players will face each other 1v1 according to the seed ranking, with the highest ranked player (1st) facing the lowest ranked player (12th), the 2nd place playing 11th, and so on.

China's Wang Zongyuan competes in the 2025 Beijing Diving World Cup Finals

In the men's singles 3m springboard, No. 1 seeded Wang Zongyuan will take on No. 12-ranked Germany's Guy Masenberg, and No. 4 Zheng Jiuyuan will take on No. 9 Matteo Santoro of Italy. Race winner Jordan Holden of Great Britain was second against New Zealand's Liam Stone in 11th.

After the preliminaries, Wang Zongyuan, Zheng Jiuyuan, and Jack Raffle advanced to the semifinals of the first half, and Colombia's Luis Felipe Uribe Bermúdez, Germany's Moritz Wezemann, and Jordan Holden advanced to the semifinals of the second half.

In the semi-finals, all players must complete the actions that have not yet been completed in the registration action, and the score will be superimposed with the accumulation of the preliminaries, and the last place in each group will be eliminated. In the end, Zheng Jiuyuan overtook Jack Lovell and joined hands with Wang Zongyuan to advance to the finals. In the second half, Jordan Holden made a major mistake and went out unexpectedly, and Luis Felipe Uribe Bermúdez and Moritz Wezemann advanced to the final.

The Chinese team is at the top of the medal table

In the finals, 4 players need to complete all the registration actions, 6 movements for men and 5 movements for women. The accumulated scores of the first two rounds will be cleared to zero and the results will be recalculated.

In the finals, Wang Zongyuan's set was the most difficult, except for the first jump, almost every jump was the most difficult in the current group. In the end, Wang Zongyuan topped the list with 519.25 points and won the first World Cup championship under the new format.

Zheng Jiuyuan scored 505.05 points on six jumps to help the Chinese team win the championship and second place, and Germany's Moritz Wezemann won the bronze medal with 430.45 points.

The peak showdown between Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, the focus of the day, was held at 17:00 in the afternoon. According to the new format, the women's 10m platform preliminaries will first be a "one-on-one" knockout round: top seed Chen Yuxi will face off against the 12th-ranked French player Jardin Brown. Gillet, No. 2, took on another French player, No. 11, Emily A. Halifax.

In this season's World Cup, Chen Yuxi's overall performance was more stable, standing on the highest podium in two consecutive events. Under the new competition system, Chen Yuxi, whose technology is more stable, aims for the championship.

Quan Hongchan has experienced height and weight gain, and is still in the adaptation period. After the Windsor station, Quan Hongchan said that she was getting better and better, and her performance in the game was even better than in training. As a contestant, Quan Hongchan is looking forward to ushering in an explosion.

Quan Hongchan in the women's 10-meter platform final of the 2025 Beijing Diving World Cup

After the preliminaries, Chen Yuxi, Mexico's Alejandra Estudillo Torres, and Italy's Sara Judoin Di María advanced to Group 1 of the semifinals; Great Britain's Andrea Spendolini Cyrille, Quan Hongchan and Australia's Ellie Cole advanced to Group 2 of the semi-finals.

The semi-finals and finals were played in the same way as the men's single 3m springboard. The difference is that the female player has 5 sets of moves.

In the end, Torres, Quan Hongchan, Chen Yuxi and Spendolini advanced to the final. The final round begins, the scores of the previous two rounds are cleared to zero, and the points are counted again. In the first two stages, Chen Yuxi ranked first with a total of 432.15 points, and was the last to play in the final.

In the finals, except for a slight flaw in the third jump, Chen Yuxi's performance in other rounds of competition was perfect, and many judges gave 10 points. In the end, Chen Yuxi scored 431.25 points in the final and won the World Cup championship for the third consecutive year after 2023 and 2024.

In addition, Chen Yuxi participated in three events: the women's double 10-meter platform, the mixed team competition and the women's single 10-meter platform, all of which stood on the highest podium and achieved the "triple crown" achievement; She also won the gold medal in the women's 10m platform in the three World Cup races.

Quan Hongchan finished second with 409.80 points, while Mexico's Fernando Torres won bronze with 332.70 points, her second medal of the competition.

At the post-match press conference, Quan Hongchan said that she was very satisfied with her performance and played at the level of training, and hoped that she could play better in future training and competitions.

Chen Yuxi concluded: "I am very happy to be able to jump at this level, and I am very satisfied, because the pre-competition training is not so systematic, and I didn't expect to play at such a level. The new format is also a challenge for me, and of course I'm more than willing to take on it. ”