FUKUOKA, Japan, July 22 (Xinhua) — China elevated its lead on the medal desk on the World Aquatics Championships by successful two extra golds on Saturday when diving and inventive swimming wrapped up their closing day’s competitors.
Cheng Wentao and Shi Haoyu claimed the blended duet free title, their second gold and third medal on the Fukuoka worlds following their victory within the staff acrobatic occasion and blended duet technical bronze.
Zhu Zifeng and Lin Shan afterward claimed the blended 3m synchronized springboard title for China, its twelfth from diving and fifteenth general.
But China, who swept all 13 diving gold medals in final 12 months’s Budapest worlds, noticed its monopoly of world titles damaged by Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau, who secured the title of the boys’s 10m platform with a near-perfect final dive.
China leads the tally with 15 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze medals. Japan is second on 4-1-3 and Germany third on 4-0-2.
The United States stays on tenth with two silver and 4 bronze medals however gold medals are anticipated to come back quickly for them when the swimming competitors kicks off on Sunday.