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Last Updated: February 07, 2024, 00:00 IST
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Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi gave China one other diving gold medal on the World Aquatics Championships, cruising to victory within the ladies’s synchronized 10meter platform on Tuesday.
DOHA, Qatar: Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi gave China one other diving gold medal on the World Aquatics Championships, cruising to victory within the ladies’s synchronized 10-meter platform on Tuesday.
The end result was by no means doubtful for the Chinese stars, who teamed as much as seize their third straight world title within the occasion after ending 1-2 within the 10-meter particular person occasion a day earlier on the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha.
Quan and Chen led comfortably after each spherical, setting the tone with a close to-excellent opening dive, barely rippling the water as they went in aspect by aspect.
They completed with 362.22 factors, receiving a number of excellent 10s alongside the best way. They had been far forward of silver medalists Jo Jin Mi and Kim Mi Rae of North Korea at 320.70, whereas the bronze went to Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lous Toulson of Britain with 299.34.
The Chinese have received 13 straight world titles in ladies’s synchronized platform since settling for silver when the occasion made its debut on the 1998 championships in Perth, Australia.
Quan and Chen might be overwhelming favorites for the gold on the Paris Olympics this summer season. The Chinese ladies have by no means misplaced a synchronized competitors off the massive tower because it was added to the Summer Games program in 2000.
China additionally romped to victory within the staff technical occasion of creative swimming with a rating of 299.8712 factors, including to its triumph in acrobatic staff.
Spain claimed the silver at 275.8925, edging bronze medalist Japan’s 275.8787. The United States simply missed out on its second medal of the meet, ending fourth.
China has claimed 4 gold medals in each diving and creative swimming by the primary 5 days in Doha, with one other occasion nonetheless to go on Tuesday.
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