Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 9th. Who can stop China diving?
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Xin Lu Yuchen Li Jia
On the 9th, the Chinese diving team announced the entry list for the World Swimming Championships. Can this new and old team continue to be brilliant in Budapest? “Who can stop China from diving” will become a topic of swimming in the world.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, in addition to the “poor” achievements of Chinese diving at the 2003 Barcelona World Championships and the 2005 Montreal World Championships, “who can stop the Chinese players from winning gold medals” has become the biggest guess in every diving competition of the World Championships.
In the 2011 Shanghai World Championships, Chinese diving won 10 gold medals; since then, the diving competitions of the World Championships have been increased to 12 events, and then expanded to 13, but the Chinese players are always strong. In the 2019 Gwangju World Championships, Chinese diving won 12 championships in 13 events, and they have achieved “a hundred hits” — including all the gold medals in the 12 events they participated in, except for the “blank” men’s and women’s mixed 3-meter springboard , the Australian combination was able to stand on the top podium.
According to the official data of FINA, since the Fukuoka World Championships in 2001, the records of China’s diving “Golden Harvester” are as follows:
2001: 8 gold medals/10 projects
2003: 4 gold medals/10 projects
2005: 5 gold medals/10 projects
2007: 9 gold medals/10 projects
2009: 7 gold medals/10 projects
2011: 10 gold medals/10 projects
2013: 9 gold medals/12 projects
2015: 10 gold medals/13 projects
2017: 8 gold medals/13 projects
2019: 12 gold medals/13 projects
The diving competition of the World Swimming Championships has formed a situation of “China VS the world“. The “Golden Dream Team” has won 95 world championships and 175 medals so far; the rest of the teams have shared 56 gold medals, and Russia and the United States have ranked first in the medal list. Second and third place, with 13 golds each, but 50 and 46 medals respectively.
It is worth mentioning that since the Perth World Championships in 1998 was listed as an official competition event, the double event has quickly become a “golden reserve” for diving in China. Chinese players won most of the victories, and only the year just listed as a World Championship event was a little special: Russia’s Pakarina/Lashko won the women’s double 3-meter springboard championship. They were the first pair to win the World Championships. The foreign champion combination of the project is also the last pair. The women’s doubles 10-meter platform also entered the Chinese team’s gold safe.
In the men’s double 3-meter springboard, Russian players have “intercepted successfully” twice in 2003 and 2017, and the gold medals of the other 9 World Championships belong to China. Qin Kai even created a world championship record: one person has cooperated with four different partners successively, and from 2007 to 2015, he dominated for five consecutive times.
Chinese players have also “lost” 3 times in the men’s double 10-meter platform, but they have won 6 of the past 7 world championships. The most recent mistake was at the 2013 Barcelona World Championships. Ding broke through to win gold.
The World Swimming Championships in Budapest will be held from June 18 to July 3, and the diving competition will be held from June 26 to July 3.