Shin Jeong-hwi Advances to the Men’s 10m Diving Semifinals
‘Top 12’ confirmed, excluding countries that have secured qualification for the Paris Olympics
Shin Jeong-hwi (22, Korea Sports Promotion Foundation) advanced to the semifinals of the men’s 10m platform diving event at the World Aquatics Championships.
The road to the Paris Olympics was also opened.
Shin Jeong-hwi earned a total of 379.85 points from the first to sixth periods in the 2024 World Championships men’s 10m platform preliminaries held at the Hamad Aquatic Center in Doha, Qatar on the 9th, ranking 12th out of 46 people. 온라인카지노사이트
The top 18 players, including Shin Jeong-hwi, will compete in the semifinals on the afternoon of the 10th to compete for a spot in the finals (12 people).
They also virtually secured the right to participate in the Paris Olympics.
The men’s 10m platform is an official Olympic event.
In diving, qualifications for the Paris Olympics are distributed to the National Olympic Committee (NOC) rather than to individual athletes.
The International Aquatics Federation has decided that the method of distributing qualifications for the Paris Olympics for the individual diving event will be ’12 tickets for the 2023 Fukuoka World Championships, a maximum of 5 tickets for each continental championship, and 12 tickets for the 2024 Doha World Championships.’
Each country can obtain a maximum of two tickets to the Paris Olympics in the men’s 10m platform.
China and Great Britain secured two spots for the Paris Olympics in this event at last year’s Fukuoka World Championships, so they cannot add an additional Olympic spot for this event.
In Doha, a total of four players, two from China and the UK, advanced to the semifinals.
In addition, Mexico and Canada, which secured one spot in the Fukuoka competition, produced two semifinalists in this competition.
Mexico and Canada can only add one ticket to the Olympics in this competition.
In the end, ‘4 athletes from China and England, and 2 athletes from Mexico and Canada’ were excluded from the rankings for distributing qualifications for the Paris Olympics, and as soon as Shin Jeong-Hwi advanced to the semifinals, he was confirmed to be in the top 12 among athletes from countries that did not qualify for the Paris Olympics. did.
Although we have to wait for the final announcement from the International Swimming Federation, Shin Jeong-Hwi actually gave Korean diving a ticket to Paris.
The Korea Swimming Federation plans to grant qualification to participate in the Paris Olympics to athletes who win Olympic tickets.
Kim Young-taek (22, Jeju Provincial Office), who finished 11th in the men’s 10m platform in Fukuoka last year and confirmed a trip to Paris, withdrew from the preliminaries of the Doha competition.
With Shin Jeong-hwi performing well at the Doha competition, Korean diving won all two spots available in the men’s 10m platform individual event.
In the preliminaries on this day, Chao Yuan (29, China) ranked first with 503.80 points.
At the Olympics, Cao Yuan won two gold medals in individual events in Rio de Janeiro (3m springboard) in 2016 and Tokyo (10m platform) in 2021, but at the World Championships, she won three gold medals only in synchro events in which two people run together.
In Doha, he will aim to win his first individual event at the World Championships.
Yang Hao (26, China) passed the preliminary round in second place with 497.70 points.
North Korea’s Lim Myeong-seong (22) scored 416.60 points and advanced to the semifinals in 8th place.