National Diving Championships Xie Siyi Huang Bowen won gold, Hubei player Zheng Jiuyuan won silver

Jimu News reporter Hu Dikai

Photography: Jimu News reporter Song Zhentao

On the evening of May 27, the men's double 3-meter springboard final was held in the 2025 National Diving Championship. In the end, Guangdong combination Xie Siyi and Huang Bowen won the gold medal, while Hubei player Zheng Jiuyuan and Guangdong player Hu Yukang won the silver medal.

The men's double 3-meter springboard competition did not have preliminaries or semi-finals, and a total of 31 groups of players participated in the finals. Hubei sent three players to participate. Zhang Lei and Shi Zhenyu partnered in the 15th place, and Zheng Jiuyuan partnered in the 22nd place. Among the contestants, the Guangdong combination Xie Siyi and Huang Bowen are very outstanding and are highly watched combinations. They made their debut in the third place. Xie Siyi is the double and single champion of the men's 3-meter board Tokyo Olympics and the single champion of the Paris Olympics. Huang Bowen once won the Asian Championships for the men's 3-meter springboard. In the finals, in the first jump, Xie Siyi and Huang Bowen jumped out of the highest score in the game, and Zheng Jiuyuan and Hu Yukang ranked third. In the second jump, Zheng Jiuyuan and Hu Yukang scored higher, and the total scores caught up, the same as Xie Siyi and Huang Bowen's total scores were 100.80, tied for first place. In the third jump, Zheng Jiuyuan and Hu Yukang performed well, jumped out of 85.68 points, surpassing Xie Siyi and Huang Bowen by 5.10 points, ranking first. In the fourth jump, Zheng Jiuyuan and Hu Yukang made mistakes in synchronization, with a total score of 266.28, ranking second, Xie Siyi and Huang Bowen scored 270.12, ranking first.

The fifth jump, Xie Siyi and Huang Bowen scored 91.80 points, further expanding their lead. In the sixth jump, Xie Siyi and Huang Bowen continued to jump out of the high score of 91.20. In the end, Xie Siyi and Huang Bowen won the championship with 453.12 points, Zheng Jiuyuan and Hu Yukang won the runner-up with 437.46 points, and Guangdong combinations He Chao and Yan Siyu won the third place with 411.69 points. After the

, Xie Siyi said in an interview: "I haven't participated in the competition for 9 months since the Paris Olympics. I felt quite excited about this competition, but I was a little nervous. At the beginning, it was not the best, but I slowly adjusted. The results of the competition were not the most important. What is more important is to test how our cooperation is."

Zheng Jiuyuan said: "This is the first time that Hu Yukang and I have participated in a domestic competition. We have only started to partner at the beginning of this year. We didn't think about rankings in the competition, but we wanted to do the movements well." Zheng Jiuyuan mentioned that it felt very friendly to go back to his hometown to compete, the competition venue was very familiar, and his parents also came to watch the competition on site.