Flower Tour World Cup Finals: "Chinese Style" shines, host wins three gold medals on the first day

Xinhua News Agency, Xi'an, June 13 (Reporters Yao Youming and Li Jia) On the 13th, the 2025 World Swimming Federation Synchronized Swimming World Cup Finals kicked off at the diving swimming pool of Xi'an Olympic Sports Center. In the women's single-player technology self-select, women's double-select and collective technology self-select, the Chinese team cleverly integrates the necessary actions with the "Chinese style" to win three gold medals.

In the women's single-player technical self-selected final, Chinese player Xu Huiyan took the theme of "Looking at Lovesickness" and won a total score of 258.7933 with her extremely artistic and infectious performance. Casas, the champion of the Paris Station of the World Cup, won the runner-up, and Handoshka from Belarus won the third place.

Xu Huiyan said: "Compared with the previous few stops, I have some changes in my leg shape and foot shape. Today, I have not reached the best in the must-have movements. I feel that I have made great progress in upper body movements and physical fitness."

China Flower Tour Team coach Tu Jun commented that Xu Huiyan played the technical characteristics of beautiful and stretching movements, and her twisting and rolling movements in the water are resilient.

In the previous World Cup Canada competition, Chinese team Lin Yanhan/Lin Yanjun won third in the women's double-selling self-selected competition. When we arrived at the finals, the Chinese team sent Xu Huiyan and Lin Yanjun to partner in the event. Zhang Xiaohuan, head coach of the China Flower Tour Team, said that he hopes to promote and influence Lin Yanjun through Xu Huiyan's good technology, and improve the technical completion quality of the double-person project. In the end, the pair of pairs with only three weeks of pairing training did not disappoint the coaching staff. They stood on the highest podium with a total score of 289.6150, and the Japanese group Higamori/Sato Tomoka Sato and Spanish group Garset/Valette won the second and third place respectively.

"Huiyan is much more mature than my sister (Lin Yanhan) and I may be more stable with her. Next, we need to improve the synchronous understanding of the movements, and we will get better and better!" Lin Yanjun said. In the

collective technology self-selected competition, the Chinese team, led by many Paris Olympic champions, brought the atmosphere to a climax with the domestic game "Black Myth: Wukong". The girls wore "golden hoops" on their heads and turned into "destiny" and scored a game-high 277.2258 points. The Spanish and Japanese teams won silver and bronze medals respectively. Chinese team player Chang Hao said: "Wearing a 'golden hoop' will have some impact on doing the rotation movements, but we can overcome them. We hired a professional instructor to help us arrange it. I think we can score 8 points for today's performance." In the men's singles technical self-selected competition, Chinese team Guo Mu also won a silver medal, and the championship belongs to Mexican player Villalobos Carrillo.