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Apr 18, 2024 · 6 - A Chinese word was created to describe Quan Hongchan's excellence. Sometimes, words simply don't do justice to particularly great performances. In Quan's case, a new Mandarin Chinese word had to be created to describe her astonishing performances in diving. The word is “水花消失术”, pronounced “shui hua xiao shi shu”, which ...
- Andrew Binner
Aug 7, 2024 · Quan has three Olympic gold medals following Tuesday's women's 10m platform diving final, which saw her outlast teammate and women's synchronized gold medal pal Chen Yuxi. Those came three years after she smashed records in Tokyo to claim a gold at age 14. Her dives have been so good that she's been given a Mandarin Chinese phrase to describe ...
- Nicholas Mendola
Quan Hongchan (Chinese: 全红婵; pinyin: Quán Hóngchán; [2] born 28 March 2007) is a Chinese diver, national champion, and Olympic champion. [3] At the 2020 Summer Olympics , she won the gold medal in the individual 10 metre platform event . [ 4 ]
Aug 6, 2024 · Updated 12:15 PM PDT, August 6, 2024. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Quan Hongchan of China not only won her second gold medal in diving at the Paris Olympics, she did it Tuesday with a perfect score of 10 on her first of five dives. The dive was a forward 3 1/2 somersaults, hardly making a ripple and setting off wild cheers from Chinese fans as ...
- swade@ap.org
- Sports Writer, Reporter
Aug 5, 2021 · The 14-year-old Quan Hongchan delivered it with two of her five dives in a dominant performance to claim the gold medal in women’s 10-meter platform at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. All seven judges gave Quan perfect 10s for her second and fourth dives in the five-round competition.
Aug 9, 2024 · “Quan practises harder than other athletes around her age. She is the most engaged. She kept asking me whether her positions and flights were OK, whether she did well,” He said.
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Aug 20, 2021 · Quan became the second-youngest Chinese gold medallist in the event in Olympic history after Fu Mingxia won the same event in 1992 at just 13. Quan was also the youngest athlete in China's delegation to Tokyo. Born on March 28, 2007, Quan grew up in the small village of Maihe, in Zhanjiang city, Guangdong Province.
