Shaanxi’s Yang Hao wins gold in men’s 10m platform double at World Swimming Championships
2022-06-29 17:35:27Source: Xi’an News Network
Xi’an News Net News Swimming World Championships diving arena has another good news! In the early morning of June 29th, Beijing time, there was good news from the World Swimming Championships in Budapest. Shaanxi player Yang Hao and national team teammate Lian Junjie won the men’s 10-meter platform double competition with 467.79 points, more than 40 points ahead of the second place. champion. This is the 4th gold medal won by the Chinese team at the World Swimming Championships, and the 99th gold medal won by the Chinese diving team in the history of the World Championships.
There have been stars such as Tian Liang and Qin Kai in Shaanxi diving. The 24-year-old Yang Hao is currently the leader of the Shaanxi diving team and a veteran of the Chinese diving team. This is not his first time participating in the World Championships. In the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, he and Wang Han won the mixed 3-meter springboard championship; in the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, he cooperated with Chen Aisen to win the gold medal in the men’s 10-meter platform diving; in 2019 The Gwangju World Championships won the silver medal in the men’s 10m platform.
In this World Championships, Yang Hao and Lian Junjie have a combination of outstanding strength. They entered the final as the first place in the preliminaries, and they played more stable in the final. In the end, they stood on the top podium without any suspense. After the game, Yang Hao said in an interview: “We are a new pair. We have not participated much recently, so we are a little nervous. Compared to the competition, our performance today is not perfect, but overall it is not bad. Stable. It was not easy to win this time, we still remember that the Chinese team missed the gold medal in this event at the Tokyo Olympics, and now we will bring this championship back.”
According to the schedule, the World Swimming Championships and the diving competition will be held from June 26 to July 3. The Chinese team will send a total of 17 athletes to participate in all 13 events (8 Olympic events, 5 non-Olympic events). competition. In the previous competitions, the Chinese team has won the champions of the men’s 3-meter springboard double, the men’s 3-meter springboard and the women’s 10-meter platform respectively.
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