World Aquatics has named China’s Olympic champion Chen Yuxi as its 2025 Female Diving Athlete of the Year, whereas Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau was honored because the Male Diving Athlete of the Year.
BUDAPEST, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) — World Aquatics on Wednesday named China’s Olympic champion Chen Yuxi as its 2025 Female Diving Athlete of the Year, whereas Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau was honored because the Male Diving Athlete of the Year.
Chen, 20, prolonged China’s dominance within the girls’s 10-meter platform, finishing an unbeaten 2025 Diving World Cup circuit with seven wins, together with three gold medals on the Super Final in Beijing.
She carried that type into the World Aquatics Championships Singapore 2025, the place she received gold within the girls’s 10-meter platform, girls’s synchronized 10-meter platform and combined staff occasion. The sweep made her the primary diver to win 4 world titles within the girls’s 10-meter platform.
A two-time Olympic champion within the girls’s synchronized 10-meter platform and a double Olympic silver medalist within the particular person occasion on the Tokyo and Paris Olympic Games, Chen credited staff help and constant coaching for her return to peak type in 2025.
“The stability of my performance comes from hard training and the strong support of my team,” Chen stated after her victories in Singapore.
On the boys’s facet, Rousseau capped a standout season by returning to the highest of the world podium.
The 25-year-old, who was additionally named the 2023 Male Diving Athlete of the Year, posted a personal-best 534.80 factors to win the boys’s 10-meter platform closing on the Singapore worlds.
A former acrobatic gymnast, Rousseau first broke by means of globally by profitable the boys’s 10-meter platform title on the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.