FUKUOKA, Japan, July 12 (Xinhua) — China’s all-conquering diving crew is aiming to duplicate their success from the earlier 12 months’s Budapest Worlds by sweeping all 13 gold medals in Fukuoka, Japan.
The diving occasions will happen from July 14 to 22 on the Fukuoka Prefectural Pool, that includes prime divers from world wide. The Fukuoka Worlds additionally function a qualifier for the Paris 2024 Olympics, with the highest 12 finishers within the 3m and 10m particular person occasions securing an Olympic quota spot for his or her nationwide or regional Olympic Committee. Additionally, the highest three groups (excluding France) within the males’s and ladies’s 3m and 10m synchronized occasions will earn the identical privilege.
“Our goal is to secure all the tickets for Paris 2024,” acknowledged crew chief Zhou Jihong. “We are fully prepared, and we aim to win more gold medals.”
Zhou acknowledges that the Chinese divers usually are not invincible on the World Championships and expects them to face vital challenges in sure occasions.
However, she believes China has a bonus within the ladies’s 10m platform, which has been dominated by Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan in latest Diving World Cup sequence. Similarly, Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani are thought-about title favorites within the ladies’s 3m springboard, though they’ll face powerful competitors from the United States and host nation Japan.
Leading the lads’s crew is four-time world champion and Olympic synchro champion Wang Zongyuan, who will companion with Long Daoyi within the synchro 3m springboard occasion. Triple world champion Yang Hao will take part in each the person and synchro 10m platform, alongside companion Lian Junjie.
“I hope to stand on the top podium in both individual and synchro events,” expressed Yang. “I will give my utmost effort to achieve the best results.”
The males’s platform has been a weak point for the “Dream Team,” because the 10m platform synchro was the one occasion they did not win on the Tokyo Olympic Games.
“We must not underestimate our rivals,” cautioned Zhou. “Jack Laugher of Britain is a formidable competitor in men’s springboard, and divers from Ukraine, Japan, Australia, and Canada are all very strong in the men’s platform.”
The diving competitors will characteristic a complete of 27 classes, overlaying 13 occasions, together with males’s and ladies’s particular person and synchronized occasions, two blended synchronized occasions, and a blended crew occasion.