DOHA, Qatar: With its sights on the Paris Olympics, China is popping in one other dominant diving efficiency on the world stage.
Wang Zongyuan and Xie Siyi completed 1-2 within the males’s 3-meter Wednesday, whereas Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani captured their third straight gold medal in ladies’s synchronized springboard on the World Aquatics Championships.
China didn’t enter the primary two occasions of the meet, which comes simply 5 months forward of the Summer Games, however the nation has been practically unbeatable since then.
Other than an eleventh-place displaying in males’s 1-meter springboard, a non-Olympic occasion by which China entered just one athlete, the diving superpower has taken gold within the different six disciplines. Most of them have been runaway victories.
Meanwhile, Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands accomplished a sweep of the ladies’s particular person open water races by taking gold within the 5-kilometer at Old Doha Port. In an exciting end, Logan Fontaine of France claimed the boys’s title within the non-Olympic occasion.
In the boys’s solo freed from inventive swimming, Giorgio Minisini of Italy added a gold medal to the silver he captured within the solo technical occasion.
Xie led the preliminaries and semifinals at Hamad Aquatic Centre, however it was Wang who took management within the remaining. He ripped off one stellar dive after one other on the way in which to a complete rating of 538.70, relegating Xie to the silver in 516.10.
It was the second gold of the championships for Wang, who teamed with Long Daoyi to seize the synchronized springboard title.
Wang and Xie have dominated the springboard in worldwide competitors and can head to Paris as enormous favorites. Xie was world champion in 2017 and ’19, and is the reigning Olympic champion as effectively. But Wang has captured the final two world titles.
Osmar Olvera of Mexico grabbed his second medal of the championships, including to his gold in 1-meter springboards with a bronze at 498.40. No one else was even near the three medalists.
Chen and Chang totaled 323.43 factors within the synchro occasion, leaving Anabelle Smith and Maddison Keeney of Australia with the silver at 300.45. Scarlett Mew Jensen and Yasmin Harper of Britain claimed bronze at 281.70, edging out the American duo of Krysta Palmer and Alison Gibson by a mere 2.4 factors.
Chen and Chang additionally would be the heavy favorites within the 3-meter particular person occasion on Friday.
The 24-yr-previous Chen is the 2-time reigning world champion off the springboard, whereas the 22-yr-previous Chang claimed the silver final summer time in Fukuoka, Japan, and the bronze two years in the past in Budapest, Hungary.
Chang has now received 4 synchronized 3-meter world titles, additionally taking the 2017 championship whereas partnered with Shi Tingmao.
Overall, China has earned 13 straight golds within the occasion since ending second when it debuted on the 1998 worlds in Perth, Australia.
Van Rouwendaal added to her victory within the 10K by touching first in 57 minutes, 33.90 seconds. The 30-yr-previous now has three world championships over her illustrious profession, together with gold and silver medals on the Olympics.
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The silver went to Chelsea Gubecka of Australia in 57:35.00, whereas Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil settled for bronze in 57:36.80. It was the sixteenth world medal for Cunha, who has reached the rostrum in eight straight championships going again to 2011.
In the boys’s race, Fontaine received a livid dash to the contact pad amongst 5 swimmers. He completed in 51:29.30, beating teammate Marc-Antoine Olivier by simply 0.30 seconds in a 1-2 end for France.
Domenico Acerenza of Italy earned the bronze in 51:30.00. Kristóf Rasovszky of Hungary and Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy simply missed out on the rostrum.
After successful gold within the males’s solo technical on the Aspire Dome, 16-yr-previous Yang Shuncheng of China led the preliminaries of solo free. But he botched a few required components within the remaining, slumping to fourth to overlook the rostrum altogether.
Minisini took the gold with a rating of 211.8647. The silver went to Dennis Gonzalez Boneu of Spain at 196.2750 and Gustavo Sánchez of Colombia grabbed his second bronze medal of the meet at 192.0812.
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