China at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships

China at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
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World Aquatics code	CHN
National federation	Chinese Swimming Association
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in Fukuoka, Japan
Competitors	105 in 5 sports
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 20 Silver 8 Bronze 12 Total 40
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China competed at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan from 14 to 30 July. ^[1]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Wang Feilong Zhang Jiaqi Diving Mixed synchronized 10 m platform July 15  Gold Lin Shan Diving Women's 1 m springboard July 15  Gold Long Daoyi Wang Zongyuan Diving Men's synchronized 3 m springboard July 15  Gold Peng Jianfeng Diving Men's 1 m springboard July 16  Gold Chen Yuxi Quan Hongchan Diving Women's synchronized 10 m platform July 16  Gold Chang Yani Chen Yiwen Diving Women's synchronized 3 m springboard July 17  Gold Lian Junjie Yang Hao Diving Men's synchronized 10 m platform July 17  Gold Chang Hao Feng Yu Zhang Yayi Wang Ciyue Xiao Yanning Shi Haoyu Cheng Wentao Xiang Binxuan Artistic swimming Team acrobatic routine July 17  Gold Bai Yuming Zheng Jiuyuan Si Yajie Zhang Minjie Diving Team event July 18  Gold Chen Yuxi Diving Women's 10 m platform July 19  Gold Wang Zongyuan Diving Men's 3 m springboard July 20  Gold Chen Yiwen Diving Women's 3 m springboard July 21  Gold Chang Hao Feng Yu Wang Ciyue Wang Liuyi Wang Qianyi Xiang Binxuan Xiao Yanning Zhang Yayi Artistic swimming Team free routine July 21  Gold Cheng Wentao Shi Haoyu Artistic swimming Mixed duet free routine July 22  Gold Zhu Zifeng Lin Shan Diving Mixed synchronized 3 m springboard July 22  Gold Qin Haiyang Swimming Men's 100 m breaststroke July 23  Gold Zhang Yufei Swimming Women's 100 m butterfly July 23  Gold Qin Haiyang Swimming Men's 50 m breaststroke July 26  Gold Xu Jiayu Qin Haiyang Zhang Yufei Cheng Yujie Yan Zibei Wang Yichun Wu Qingfeng Swimming Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay July 26  Gold Qin Haiyang Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke July 28  Silver Li Yajie Diving Women's 1 m springboard July 15  Silver Quan Hongchan Diving Women's 10 m platform July 19  Silver Wang Liuyi Wang Qianyi Artistic swimming Women's duet free routine July 20  Silver Chang Yani Diving Women's 3 m springboard July 21  Silver Lian Junjie Diving Men's 10 m platform July 22  Silver Zhang Yufei Swimming Women's 50 m butterfly July 29  Silver Li Bingjie Swimming Women's 800 m freestyle July 29  Silver Xu Jiayu Qin Haiyang Wang Changhao Pan Zhanle Yan Zibei Sun Jiajun Wang Haoyu Swimming Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay July 30  Bronze Zheng Jiuyuan Diving Men's 1 m springboard July 16  Bronze Cheng Wentao Shi Haoyu Artistic swimming Mixed duet technical routine July 16  Bronze Long Daoyi Diving Men's 3 m springboard July 20  Bronze Yang Hao Diving Men's 10 m platform July 22  Bronze Cheng Yujie Yang Junxuan Wu Qingfeng Zhang Yufei Ai Yanhan Zhu Menghui Swimming Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay July 23  Bronze Yu Yiting Swimming Women's 200 m individual medley July 24  Bronze Li Bingjie Swimming Women's 1500 m freestyle July 25  Bronze Sun Jiajun Swimming Men's 50 m breaststroke July 26  Bronze Li Bingjie Li Jiaping Ai Yanhan Liu Yaxin Yang Peiqi Ge Chutong Swimming Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay July 27  Bronze Peng Xuwei Swimming Women's 200 m backstroke July 29  Bronze Xu Jiayu Swimming Men's 50 m backstroke July 30  Bronze Zhang Yufei Swimming Women's 50 m freestyle July 30

Medals by sport Sport Total Artistic swimming 3 1 1 5 Diving 12 4 3 19 Swimming 5 3 8 16

Athletes by discipline

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Championships per discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Artistic swimming	1	10	11
Diving	9	9	18
Open water swimming	3*	4	7*
Swimming	19*	22	41*
Water polo	14	15	29
Total	45	60	105

• Zhang Ziyang was compete in both open water swimming and indoor swimming.

Artistic swimming

Main article: Artistic swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Wang Liuyi Wang Qianyi	Duet technical routine	280.3334	1 Q	249.4099	4
	Duet free routine	184.7208	9 Q	255.2480

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Cheng Wentao Shi Haoyu	Duet technical routine	188.7334	7 Q	247.3033
	Duet free routine	221.1023	1 Q	225.1020
Chang Hao Cheng Wentao Feng Yu Shi Haoyu Wang Ciyue Xiang Binxuan Xiao Yanning Zhang Yayi	Team acrobatic routine	236.0733	1 Q	238.0033
Chang Hao Feng Yu Wang Ciyue Wang Liuyi Wang Qianyi Xiang Binxuan Xiao Yanning Zhang Yayi	Team technical routine	304.3992	1 Q	253.4558	7
	Team free routine	322.2731	1 Q	329.1687

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships

China entered 18 divers. ^[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lian Junjie	10 m platform	466.90	1 Q	505.50	1 Q	512.35
Long Daoyi	3 m springboard	452.75	3 Q	495.80	2 Q	499.75
Peng Jianfeng	1 m springboard	403.75	1 Q	—		440.45
Wang Zongyuan	3 m springboard	500.95	1 Q	546.25	1 Q	538.10
Yang Hao	10 m platform	465.95	2 Q	484.90	3 Q	504.00
Zheng Jiuyuan	1 m springboard	371.65	5 Q	—		418.30
Long Daoyi Wang Zongyuan	3 m synchronized springboard	451.44	1 Q	—		456.33
Lian Junjie Yang Hao	10 m synchronized platform	463.65	1 Q	—		477.75

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Chang Yani	3 m springboard	303.60	4 Q	354.75	2 Q	341.50
Chen Yuxi	10 m platform	393.00	2 Q	430.05	2 Q	457.85
Chen Yiwen	3 m springboard	355.00	1 Q	363.70	1 Q	359.50
Quan Hongchan	10 m platform	435.60	1 Q	451.40	1 Q	445.60
Li Yajie	1 m springboard	283.35	2 Q	—		306.35
Lin Shan	1 m springboard	291.25	1 Q	—		318.60
Chang Yani Chen Yiwen	3 m synchronized springboard	327.42	1 Q	—		341.94
Chen Yuxi Quan Hongchan	10 m synchronized platform	365.40	1 Q	—		369.84

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Wang Feilong Zhang Jiaqi	10 m synchronized platform	339.54
Lin Shan Zhu Zifeng	3 m synchronized springboard	326.10
Bai Yuming Zheng Jiuyuan Si Yajie Zhang Minjie	Team event	489.65

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships

China entered 7 open water swimmers. ^{[3] [4]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Lan Tianchen	Men's 5 km	58:44.7	39
	Men's 10 km	2:00:37.5	41
Meng Rui	Men's 5 km	1:00:58.8	48
Zhang Ziyang	Men's 10 km	2:03:46.2	46

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ma Xiaoming	Women's 5 km	1:02:29.0	36
Sun Jiake	Women's 10 km	2:05:06.1	27
Wang Kexin	Women's 5 km	1:01:19.6	19
Wu Shutong	Women's 10 km	2:08:56.7	35

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Meng Rui Wang Kexin Wu Shutong Zhang Ziyang	Team relay	1:14:50.1	11

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships

China entered 41 swimmers. ^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Chen Juner	50 m butterfly	23.79	35	Did not advance
	200 m butterfly	1:56.87	19	Did not advance
Dong Zhihao	200 m breaststroke	2:10.06	7 Q	2:08.47 WJ	4 Q	2:08.04 WJ	4
Fei Liwei	800 m freestyle	7:56.69	24	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	14:57.50	12	—		Did not advance
Hong Jinquan	200 m freestyle	1:48.93	32	Did not advance
Niu Guangsheng	200 m butterfly	1:55.69	9 Q	1:57.51	15	Did not advance
Pan Zhanle	100 m freestyle	47.84	5 Q	47.61	3 Q	47.43 AS	4
	200 m freestyle	1:46.49	11 Q	1:46.05	10	Did not advance
Sun Jiajun	50 m breaststroke	26.76	3 Q	26.78	3 Q	26.79
	100 m butterfly	52.16	25	Did not advance
Qin Haiyang	50 m breaststroke	26.34 AS	1 Q	26.20 AS	1 Q	26.29
	100 m breaststroke	58.26 AS	1 Q	57.82 AS	1 Q	57.69 AS
	200 m breaststroke	2:09.86	5 Q	2:07.70	2 Q	2:05.48 WR
Tao Guannan	200 m backstroke	1:59.74	21	Did not advance
Wang Changhao	50 m freestyle	22.50	38	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	23.83	37	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	51.78	18	Did not advance
Wang Gukailai	50 m backstroke	25.29	23	Did not advance
Wang Haoyu	100 m freestyle	48.64	22	Did not advance
Wang Shun	200 m individual medley	1:59.05	16 Q	1:57.97	11	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	DSQ		—		Did not advance
Xu Jiayu	50 m backstroke	24.73	6 Q	24.41 NR	2 Q	24.50
	100 m backstroke	52.87	1 Q	52.42	2 Q	52.64	4
Yan Zibei	100 m breaststroke	59.73	9 Q	59.02	4 Q	59.23	6
Zhang Ziyang	400 m freestyle	3:55.76	33	—		Did not advance
Pan Zhanle Chen Juner Wang Changhao Wang Haoyu Yang Jintong	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:13.54	5 Q	—		3:11.38 AS	4
Ji Xinjie Hong Jinquan Zhang Ziyang Wang Haoyu	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:09.99	11	—		Did not advance
Xu Jiayu Qin Haiyang Wang Changhao Pan Zhanle Yan Zibei Sun Jiajun Wang Haoyu	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:31.89	4 Q	—		3:29.00 AS

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cheng Yujie	50 m freestyle	24.86	15 Q	24.56	5 Q	24.45	6
	100 m freestyle	54.11	8 Q	53.92	10	Did not advance
Gao Weizhong	1500 m freestyle	16:12.94	11	—		Did not advance
Ge Chutong	400 m individual medley	4:41.87	12	—		Did not advance
Li Bingjie	400 m freestyle	4:04.98	8 Q	—		4:01.65	5
	800 m freestyle	8:20.51	2 Q	—		8:13.31 AS
	1500 m freestyle	15:58.81	4 Q	—		15:45.71
Li Jiaping	200 m freestyle	1:58.26	17	Did not advance
Liu Yaxin	200 m freestyle	1:56.93	6 Q	1:56.34	7 Q	1:56.97	8
	200 m backstroke	2:13.42	21	Did not advance
Ma Yonghui	400 m freestyle	4:10.64	17	—		Did not advance
Peng Xuwei	200 m backstroke	2:08.68	2 Q	2:07.40	1 Q	2:06.74
Tang Qianting	50 m breaststroke	30.08 AS	4 Q	30.12	5	30.22	6
	100 m breaststroke	1:07.15	20	Did not advance
Wan Letian	50 m backstroke	27.84	7 Q	27.74 27.90	8 S/off 2	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	59.52	5 Q	59.49	7 Q	1:00.39	8
Wang Xueer	50 m backstroke	27.89	9 Q	27.74 27.78	8 S/off 1 Q	27.99	7
	100 m backstroke	59.93	8 Q	59.96	13	Did not advance
Wang Yichun	100 m butterfly	57.72	7 Q	57.74	11	Did not advance
Yang Chang	50 m breaststroke	30.85	18	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:07.28	21	Did not advance
Yang Peiqi	800 m freestyle	8:37.16	20	—		Did not advance
Yang Junxuan	100 m freestyle	54.45	12 Q	53.67	8 Q	54.09	8
Ye Shiwen	200 m breaststroke	2:25.93	11 Q	2:24.76	10	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:09.81	7 Q	2:10.57	7 Q	2:14.27	8
Yu Liyan	200 m butterfly	2:09.29	10 Q	2:08.78	11	Did not advance
Yu Yiting	50 m butterfly	26.21	14 Q	26.27	16	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:09.66	5 Q	2:09.04	2 Q	2:08.74
	400 m individual medley	4:41.84	11	—		Did not advance
Zhang Yufei	50 m freestyle	24.44	4 Q	24.20	3 Q	24.15
	50 m butterfly	25.33	2 Q	25.17 NR	2 Q	25.05 AS
	100 m butterfly	56.89	1 Q	56.40	1 Q	56.12
	200 m butterfly	Did not start
Cheng Yujie Yang Junxuan Wu Qingfeng Zhang Yufei Ai Yanhan Zhu Menghui	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:36.26	5 Q	—		3:32.40 AS
Li Bingjie Li Jiaping Ai Yanhan Liu Yaxin Yang Peiqi Ge Chutong	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:51.55	4 Q	—		7:44.40
Wan Letian Tang Qianting Zhang Yufei Cheng Yujie Wang Xueer Yang Chang Wang Yichun Wu Qingfeng	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:58.13	6 Q	—		3:54.57	4

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yang Jintong Ji Yicun Yang Junxuan Wu Qingfeng	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:27.08	9	Did not advance
Xu Jiayu Qin Haiyang Zhang Yufei Cheng Yujie Yan Zibei Wang Yichun Wu Qingfeng	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:42.49	4 Q	3:38.57

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Playoff	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
China	Men's tournament	Canada L 10–13	France L 8–17	Italy L 5–18	4	—	—	Kazakhstan L 5–12	South Africa W 16–8	15
China	Women's tournament	United States L 6–15	France L 11–12	Australia L 7–11	4	—	—	Kazakhstan W 16–6	Japan W 18–10	13

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Chinese roster. ^[6]

Head coach: Petar Porobić

• 1 Wu Honghui GK
• 2 Hu Zhangxin FP
• 3 Chu Chenghao FP
• 4 Peng Jiahao FP
• 5 Zhang Jinpeng FP
• 6 Xie Zekai FP
• 7 Chen Zhongxian FP
• 8 Chen Rui FP
• 9 Chen Yimin FP
• 10 Liu Yu FP
• 11 Zhang Chufeng FP
• 12 Shen Dingsong FP
• 13 Liang Zhiwei GK
• Li Lun FP

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	0	55	17	+38	9	Quarterfinals
2	France	3	2	0	0	1	38	32	+6	6	Playoffs
3	Canada	3	1	0	0	2	30	49	−19	3
4	China	3	0	0	0	3	23	48	−25	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

17 July 2023 12:00	Report	Canada	13–10	China	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN), Nenad Peris (CRO)
		Score by quarters:4–0, 3–6, 4–4, 2–0
		Constantin-Bicari, Gardijan 3	Goals	Peng 4

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19 July 2023 10:30	Report	China	8–17	France	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Michiel Zwartt (NED), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 4–6, 0–4, 3–3
		Chen R., Xie 2	Goals	Marzouki 4

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21 July 2023 17:30	Report	China	5–18	Italy	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Veselin Mišković (MNE), Germán Moller (ARG)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–7, 2–6, 0–3
		Chen Z. 2	Goals	Condemi, Di Fulvio 4

13–16th place semifinals

23 July 2023 09:00	Report	Kazakhstan	12–5	China	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Chisato Kurosaki (JPN), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–0, 3–1, 4–3
		Markovich 4	Goals	Xie Z. 3

15th place game

25 July 2023 09:00	Report	China	16–8	South Africa	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Germán Moller (ARG), Hélène Painchaud (CAN)
		Score by quarters:3–2, 4–2, 4–1, 5–3
		Chen Z. 7	Goals	Badenhorst, Howard 2

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Chinese roster. ^[7]

Head coach: Theocharis Pavlidis

• 1 Zhang Jiaqi GK
• 2 Yan Siya FP
• 3 Yan Jing FP
• 4 Xiong Dunhan FP
• 5 Zhai Ying FP
• 6 Wang Shiyun FP
• 7 Lu Yiwen FP
• 8 Wang Huan FP
• 9 Deng Zewen FP
• 10 Nong Sanfeng FP
• 11 Chen Xiao FP
• 12 Zhang Jing FP
• 13 Dong Wenxin GK
• Wang Xuan FP
• Zhong Qiyun FP

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	0	40	16	+24	9	Quarterfinals
2	Australia	3	2	0	0	1	26	24	+2	6	Playoffs
3	France	3	1	0	0	2	25	37	−12	3
4	China	3	0	0	0	3	24	38	−14	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

16 July 2023 09:00	Report	United States	15–6	China	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nóra Debreceni (HUN), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters:1–0, 6–2, 3–1, 5–3
		Musselman 4	Goals	Zhang Jin. 3

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18 July 2023 20:30	Report	China	11–12	France	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN), Alessia Ferrari (ITA)
		Score by quarters:4–3, 1–3, 4–1, 2–5
		Wang H. 3	Goals	Dhalluin 4

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20 July 2023 13:00	Report	China	7–11	Australia	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Raffaele Colombo (ITA), Hélène Painchaud (CAN)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 3–2, 1–3, 2–2
		Lu, Zhang Jin. 2	Goals	five players 2

13–16th place semifinals

22 July 2023 09:00	Report	China	16–6	Kazakhstan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Jennifer McCall (USA), Hélène Painchaud (CAN)
		Score by quarters:3–1, 6–2, 3–2, 4–1
		Yan S., Zhang J. 4	Goals	Kaplun 3

13th place game

24 July 2023 10:30	Report	China	18–10	Japan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adil Aimbetov (KAZ), Lee-Anne Stewart (RSA)
		Score by quarters:4–3, 5–3, 4–3, 5–1
		Lu, Yan J. 3	Goals	Ura 3

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