DOHA, Qatar (AP) — On a golden day for China, reigning Olympic champion Quan Hongchan gave herself an enormous enhance of momentum heading into the Paris Video games by profitable the 10-meter platform on the World Aquatics Championships on Monday.
The 16-year-old Chinese star edged teammate Chen Yuxi, totaling 436.25 factors over 5 dives. Chen, the two-time reigning world champion, settled for a silver this time with 427.80.
Nobody else was even near the Chinese language duo. Britain’s Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix grabbed the ultimate spot on the rostrum with 377.10 for the bronze.
China dominated Day 4 of the world championships in Doha, with the diving triumph augmented by a pair of victories in inventive swimming.
After dominating the big tower over the last three years, Quan and Chen are overwhelming favorites to battle for gold in Paris.
Quan edged Chen for the top spot at the Tokyo Games in 2021, while their positions were reversed at the 2022 worlds in Budapest and the 2023 championships in Fukuoka.
Now, it’s Quan back on top.
China, which sent a scaled-back team to Doha with the Olympics just five months away, has still won three of the first six events. The other golds have been divvied up among Britain, Australia and Mexico.
China finished on top Monday in both artistic swimming events, as well.
Twins Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi won the women’s duet technical routine, while Yang Shuncheng took gold in men’s solo technical.
The 27-year-old sisters received 266.0484 points. Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe gave Britain its greatest exhibiting ever at worlds, capturing the silver with marks of 259.5601. The nation’s solely different medal in inventive swimming was Shortman’s solo free bronze ultimately summer season’s championships in Fukuoka.
Spain’s Alisa Ozhogina Ozhogin and Iris Tio Casa grabbed bronze at 258.0333, repeating their end from 2023.
The Wangs had been again on high in duet technical after a disappointing fourth-place exhibiting at Fukuoka. That they had beforehand received the occasion on the 2022 worlds in Budapest.
The siblings have mixed for eight gold medals over their world championship careers, together with two in Doha. They had been a part of the profitable group within the crew acrobatic occasion on Sunday.
Italy’s Linda Cerruti and Lucrezia Ruggiero, who captured the silver in Fukuoka, initially completed ninth however had been bumped as much as sixth with a revised rating after a profitable protest. The reigning world champions from Japan didn’t compete.
The 16-year-old Yang earned gold with the ultimate swim of the lads’s occasion, totaling 246.4766 factors. He edged Italy’s Giorgio Minisini (245.3166), with the bronze going to Colombia’s Gustavo Sanchez (231.0000).
Creative swimming is cut up into 11 medal-winning alternatives on the world championships. There are solely two occasions on the Olympic program, duet and crew.
Males have competed in inventive swimming on the world championships since 2015, when the game was nonetheless generally known as synchronized swimming. They’re eligible for the Olympics for the primary time in Paris.
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