HANGZHOU, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) — Chinese divers Quan Hongchan and Wang Zongyuan secured gold on Tuesday because the host nation dominated, claiming all eight gold medals accessible up to now on the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Olympic champion Quan outshone her teammate Chen Yuxi in an exhilarating battle within the ladies’s 10m platform. The 16-year-old Quan and 18-year-old Chen, who joined forces to clinch their first Asian Games title within the synchronized occasion final Saturday, as soon as once more demonstrated their distinctive expertise.
Quan led the primary three dives, with Chen surpassing her after the fourth spherical. However, Quan executed her ultimate dive practically flawlessly, incomes a set of 10s to complete with a complete of 438.20 factors. Chen, a triple world champion within the occasion, narrowly missed the highest spot by 2.55 factors. Malaysia’s Pandelela Rinong Pmag completed a distant third with 280.50 factors.
“I didn’t notice that I was behind, but I was happy when I saw the score (after the fifth round). Chen and I did not communicate during the game, but we will communicate after the game,” mentioned Quan, referring to the fourth spherical when Chen briefly took the lead.
“I didn’t think much because I just focused on my movements. I was a little nervous at that time. So I made a lot of changes on the last dive,” she added.
Quan gained fame on the Tokyo Olympics when she outperformed Chen with a brand new mark of 466.20 factors to win the gold. Meanwhile, Chen triumphed in final 12 months’s Budapest worlds and the Fukuoka worlds in July.
Over the final three years, Quan and Chen have claimed all main titles within the synchro 10m platform occasion.
When requested concerning the distinction between the synchro ultimate and Tuesday’s particular person ultimate, Quan mentioned, “I feel like there’s someone missing next to me. I went diving by myself today, so I’m a little nervous.”
In the boys’s 3m springboard, Wang, who had already gained the 1m springboard on the Hangzhou Asiad, led all through, gathering 542.30 factors for the gold. His teammate Zheng Jiuyuan ranked second with 508.55 factors, and South Korea’s Yi Jae-gyeong got here third with 426.20 factors.
The diving competitors will conclude on Wednesday when the ladies’s 3m springboard and males’s 10m platform finals will happen.