2025 Beijing Diving World Cup Finals: The Chinese team won 9 golds and ended perfectly

04/05/2025 21:17:00 pandatv

On May 4, Beijing time, the 2025 Diving World Cup Finals ushered in the final day of competition at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. The Chinese team won gold and silver in the women's single 3-meter springboard and men's single 10-meter platform events, and won all the gold medals in this competition.

Chen Jia (centre) finished on the top podium in Guadalajara, Mexico, Windsor, Canada and Beijing, setting a new record for her best time of the year

On May 4, Beijing time, the high-profile 2025 Diving World Cup Finals ushered in the last day of competition at the "Water Cube" of the Beijing National Aquatics Center.

On the women's 3-meter springboard, the newcomers who stood out this season, Chen Jia, the champion of the first two World Cups, and Chen Yiwen, the champion of the Olympic Games, will meet the challenge of famous players from all over the world; In the men's single 10m platform, 19-year-old Cheng Zilong and 22-year-old Zhu Zifeng have made their mark in the new season, and their main rivals are Mexico's Randal Willas, who is extremely explosive and won his first career World Cup title on home soil.

Today's competition will continue with the new FINA format that has been in the works for a long time, with competitors competing in three stages of elimination, with an intense and entertaining schedule.

At 10 a.m., the first game was played in the preliminary stage, which was a one-on-one encounter. The highest ranked player (1st place) plays the lowest ranked player (12th), 2nd place plays 11th place, and so on.

Top seed Chen Jia takes on Italy's Eliza Pizzini, while Chen Yiwen takes on Canada's Emily-Laura Jasmine. Chen Jia performed well in the third round of the jump, advancing to the semifinals of the top half with a total score of 223.05 points, in the same group as Chiara Perakani and Mia Wally.

In the second half, Chen Yiwen advanced with 220.50 points, and Australia's Madison Kini and Japan's Sayaka Mikami also advanced. 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.

2025 Beijing Diving World Cup Finals Medal Table

In the two test jumps in the semi-finals, Chen Jia scored 58.50 points and 72.00 points in succession, thus advancing to the final with a total score of 353.55 points, and Perakani in the same group also advanced. In the other group, Chen Yiwen advanced with a total score of 376.05 and Australian star Madison Keney.

The final round begins, the scores of the previous two rounds are cleared to zero, and the points are counted again. Chen Yiwen had the highest overall score in the first two rounds, and the last place to play. In the finals, 4 players need to complete all the registration actions, 6 movements for men and 5 movements for women.

In the finals, Chen Jia played steadily in the 5 rounds of diving, with a high degree of completion of aerial movements, and a clean fall into the water, winning the championship with 382.05 points. Chen Yiwen followed with a silver medal with 368.40 points, and Gini won bronze with a total score of 359.15 points.

With this victory, Chen Jia finished on the top podium in three consecutive races in Guadalajara, Mexico, Windsor, Canada and Beijing, setting a new record for her best result of the year. What's more worth mentioning is that in the three competitions, Chen Jia, Chen Yiwen and Gini all won the top three.

At the post-match press conference, Chen Jia summarized the impact of the new format: "There was a big gap between the semi-finals and the finals, but after the semi-finals, I adjusted in time, so the final performance was relatively stable. The format was relatively new, so I wasn't used to it and didn't particularly adapt to the pace of the game. ”

Chen Yiwen expressed her opinion on the fierce competition in the Chinese women's 3m springboard: "The new format is more interesting. The appearance of Chen Jia also put pressure on me and Chang Yani, whether it is in training or competition in the future, it will be tighter, and it is a good thing to have competition. ”

Beijing Diving World Cup 2025 Finals: Women's single 3m springboard results

Chen Jia (China) - 382.05
Chen Yiwen (China) - 368.40
Madison Kini (Australia) - 359.15

2025 FINA Diving World Cup Finals Men's 10m Platform Champion Zhu Zifeng

The finale of the finals is the men's single 10-meter platform competition, and Cheng Zilong and Zhu Zifeng will join forces to hit the last gold for the Chinese team. In the preliminaries, the seed is ranked 1stCheng Zilongagainst the 12th-place playerRuslan Ternov, No. 2 Zhu Zifeng faces No. 11 Italian Ricardo Giovanni.

In the three jumps of the preliminaries, Cheng Zilong scored 83.30, 91.80, and 96.20 respectively, beating Dernov to advance to Group 1 of the semifinals, and the opponents in the same group also included Ukrainian talented teenagersAlexey Sheleda, SpaniardJorge Rodríguez Ledesma。

Zhu ZifengHe also played steadily, with three jumps of 72.00, 102.60, and 94.35, defeating Italy's Giovanni and falling into Group 2 of the semifinals. His opponent in the semi-finals was the MexicanWillas, 2023 World Championship champion of the projectCassirer Russo。

In the semifinals, after the three supplementary jumps, Zhu Zifeng scored the highest score and will be the last to play in the final. Ukraine's Sheleda finished second overall, followed by Cheng Zilong and Russo.

In the final, Zhu Zifeng was in hot form, with a perfect performance of 6 jumps, setting a new personal best of the season with 571.90, winning the gold medal in the men's 10-meter platform in one fell swoop, and winning 1 gold and 2 silver in the individual event of this season's World Cup, Cheng Zilong also performed dominantly, winning the second place with 542.30 points, and Australian University player Russo won the bronze medal.