{"id":620027,"date":"2025-08-02T20:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T03:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=620027"},"modified":"2025-08-02T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T03:10:20","slug":"world-championships-chen-yiwen-chen-jia-go-1-2-in-3-meter-springboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-chen-yiwen-chen-jia-go-1-2-in-3-meter-springboard\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships: Chen Yiwen, Chen Jia Go 1-2 in 3-Meter Springboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Championships: Chen Yiwen, Chen Jia Go 1-2 in 3-Meter Springboard<\/strong><\/p>\n

China\u2019s Chen Yiwen<\/strong> and Chen Jia<\/strong> went 1-2 on women\u2019s 3-meter springboard on the penultimate day of diving at the World Aquatics Championships.<\/p>\n

Chen Yiwen bested her countrywoman with a score of 389.70 points, winning by 33.30 points. Italian Chiara Pellacani<\/strong> jumped into bronze position in the final round, her seventh career medal at Worlds in a dramatic final dive that left six divers clustered within 14 points.<\/p>\n

Chen and Chen won 3-meter women\u2019s synchro gold. Chen Yiwen added mixed team gold, the 26-year-old the owner of 10 career medals at Worlds, nine of them gold.<\/p>\n

Chen Jia led after the first two rounds with Chen Yiwen second. The latter went ahead in the third round by less than a point, scoring 76.50 points on the third round. She blistered the field with dives of 83.70 and 81.00 on the final two rounds to widen the gap to Chen Jia to 33.30 points and leave no doubt.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is like seeing the result of all the training I\u2019ve done,\u201d Chen Yiwen said. \u201cActually, to execute my dives so well today is a bit of a surprise, because I\u2019ve been a bit tired the last two days and my training since I arrived here hasn\u2019t been ideal.\u201d<\/p>\n