By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
China’s national diving came out swinging hard to kick off the 2026 calendar year. At the first stop of the Diving World Cup in Montreal, the superpower went nine gold medals for nine. Among the competition’s four individual events, Chinese divers won both gold and silver every time.
Top performers in China’s merciless season opener spanned from seasoned veterans such as nine-time world champion Chen Yiwen to 14-year-old Zhao Renjie winning his first ever international hardware.
Chen Yiwen and teammate Chen Jia reigned queens of the springboard. The duo went 1-2 in the individual 3m (Chen Yiwen 375.90, Chen Jia 362.55). Then, they teamed up for the synchro 3m, an event in which they’re the defending World Champions, to top the podium with 329.94. This placed them 26 ahead of Australian silver medalists Alysha Koloi and Madison Keeney. The two Aussies placed 3rd and 4th respectively in the individual springboard.
The PRC also dominated the women’s platform, but it had different names for individual and synchro. In the individual sphere, it was all 15-year-old Jiang Linjing, who scored a 428.10 to win. 57.7 points behind her was Cui Jiaxi. In the synchro, China left it up to 2025 world champions Zhang Minjie and Lu Wei to take care of business, and they didn’t disappoint.
Chen Jia and Jiaxi teamed up with members of the Chinese men’s team, Zhao and Jiuyuan Yang, to win the mixed team event by a medium-sized margin over Mexico. Zhao, who is just 14, had an impressive World Cup debut between gold in this event and the men’s 10m synchro with partner Yang Zhihao. The individual platform was dominated by their teammates Bai Yuming (543.55) and Lian Junjie (532.75).
Rounding out China’s utter domination was its men’s springboard squad. Wang Zongyuan and Zheng Jiuyuan put up a 1-2 individually – the former with a 40+ point lead over the latter – before teaming up for victory in the synchro 3m.
This performance sets the Chinese up fantastic for the World Cup’s Super Final in home waters in May. This stop will be the only one before the Super Final, as a violence uptick in Jalisco triggered a cancellation of the next stop in the Mexican state.
Non-Chinese highlights of World Diving Cup Montreal
Though they won’t get a home meet after all, Mexico has something to celebrate after coming second on the meet’s medal table. The North American power picked up three silvers. They gave China its closest run of the whole meet in the mixed team event while adding runner-up on both men’s synchro events. Randal Willars and Osmar Olvera were on two of the three medal teams each. North Korea and Australia both won one silver each and produced one athlete with a silver and a bronze. Down under this was previously mentioned Alysha Koloi. North Korea, meanwhile, had Jin Mi Jo, who reaped bronze in the women’s platform and silver in the same discipline’s synchro. Canada won two bronzes on home soil, rounding out the mixed team podium. Women’s synchronized platform duo Kate Miller and Katelyn Fung kept another bronze in the Great White North.Read the full story on SwimSwam: China Clean Sweeps Every Event At First Diving World Cup, 1-2s All Individuals
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