Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi won gold in their first joint competition this season, and whether Quan Hongchan can realize her dream of a grand slam

China deserves to be the "diving dream team", and on the first day of the 2025 FINA Diving World Cup Finals, which started on the 2nd, all five events successfully won gold. This year's Diving World Cup finals will be held at the China Aquatics Center (Water Cube), and 5 gold medals will be born on the first day of competition, including Quan Hongchan, Chen Yuxi, Chen Yiwen, Wang Zongyuan, and Chang Yani, 5 champions of the Paris Olympic Games, leading the Chinese diving "dream team" to hit the championship in the men's and women's double 3-meter springboard, men's and women's double 10-meter springboard and mixed team competition.

Quan Hongchan (left) and Chen Yuxi participated together for the first time this season, and all 5 jumps won the highest score without accident

This is the first appearance of Quan Hongchan in her career as a two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champion in the "Water Cube", she said before the competition that she will do her best in the finals, and as a result, she walked the talk and teamed up with Chen Yuxi to easily win gold in the women's double 10m platform with a score of 350.88 points. This is the first time that Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, as Olympic champion pairs, have participated together this season, and they all scored the highest scores in the five jumps of the day. Konaneshina and Kdrina, who competed as neutrals, finished second with 302.94 points, followed by British duo Bond and Tolson with 287.88 points.

Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani are invincible in the women's doubles. In the women's double 3m springboard competition, the gold medal was won by China's Olympic champions Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani with a wide lead of 323.13 points. Of the eight pairs participating in the event, only China and Great Britain have retained the original Olympic team, while the rest are brand new.

Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani have a disconnected lead in the competition, and they have been unbeaten in the event for the past three years. Australia's Gini and Chloe finished second with 297.75 points, while Britain's Jensen and Harper finished third with 293.31 points. Although completely dominating the field, Chen Yiwen said that the Chinese diving team is not in a comfortable state in the new Olympic cycle, and they have been trying to adjust and support each other, and think that after the Olympics, they have a feeling of starting over.

Quan Hongchan (right) joined hands with Chen Yuxi to easily win the gold in the women's double 10-meter platform with a score of 350.88 points

The men's doubles board produced the first gold medal of the tournament. China's Zheng Jiuyuan and Hu Yukang scored 448.65 points in the men's double 3m springboard, winning China's first gold medal in this competition. They faced a stubborn confrontation between Great Britain's Lough and Harding, who won silver with 434.88 points, while Germany's Massenberg and Wezemann won bronze with 390.78 points.

In the men's double 10-meter platform final, the Chinese combination of Cheng Zilong and Zhu Zifeng won the championship with a score of 460.92 points. In the mixed team, the Chinese team composed of Cheng Zilong, Wang Zongyuan, Chen Yiwen and Chen Yuxi led all the way in the final, and finally won the championship with 507.20 points, more than 80 points ahead of the second place.

On the 3rd, Beijing time, the second match day of the World Cup Finals will be contested, and the specific schedule is as follows:

· 11:00 - Men's Single 3m Springboard Heats

· 11:50 - Men's Single 3m Springboard Semifinals

· 12:25 - Men's single 3m springboard final

· 17:00 - Women's single 10m platform heats

· 18:00 - Women's 10m platform singles semifinals

· 18:30 - Women's 10m platform singles final

The exciting new competition system, whether Quan Hongchan can be crowned a Grand Slam

The finale of the 3rd debutThe women's single 10-meter platform final will stage a peak showdown between Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, which is also the biggest highlight of this event. At the Olympics, Quan Hongchan defeated Chen Yuxi for two consecutive years to win the gold medal. However, in this season's World Cup, Chen Yuxi's overall performance was more stable, and he stood on the top podium in two consecutive races. Under the new competition system, Chen Yuxi, whose technology is more stable, aims for the championship.

Quan Hongchan has experienced height and weight gain, and is still in the adaptation period. After the Windsor station, Quan Hongchan said that she was getting better and better, and her performance in the game was even better than in training. As a contestant, Quan Hongchan is looking forward to ushering in an explosion.

What's more worth mentioning is that from 2023, the Diving World Cup will be changed to the mode of sub-station competition and finals, although Quan Hongchan has won the championship in the sub-station competition many times, but she has never reached the top in the finals. For Quan Hongchan, who has already won gold medals at the Olympics and the World Championships, winning the finals will be the last piece of the puzzle for her to complete the Grand Slam.