China at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

China at the
2015 World Aquatics Championships
China at the; 2015 World Aquatics Championships
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FINA code	CHN
National federation	Chinese Swimming Association
Website	swimmingsport.org.cn
in Kazan, Russia
Competitors	90 in 5 sports
Medals; Ranked 1st	Gold 15 Silver 10 Bronze 10 Total 35
World Aquatics Championships appearances
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The People's Republic of China competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Tai Xiaohu Si Yajie	Diving	Mixed 10 m synchronized platform	July 25
Gold	Shi Tingmao Wu Minxia	Diving	Women's 3 m synchronized springboard	July 25
Gold	Chen Aisen Lin Yue	Diving	Men's 10 m synchronized platform	July 26
Gold	Xie Siyi	Diving	Men's 1 m springboard	July 27
Gold	Chen Ruolin Liu Huixia	Diving	Women's 10 m synchronized platform	July 27
Gold	Cao Yuan Qin Kai	Diving	Men's 3 m synchronized springboard	July 28
Gold	He Chao	Diving	Men's 3 m springboard	July 31
Gold	Shi Tingmao	Diving	Women's 3 m springboard	August 1
Gold	Wang Han Yang Hao	Diving	Mixed 3 m synchronized springboard	August 2
Gold	Sun Yang	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle	August 2
Gold	Qiu Bo	Diving	Men's 10 m platform	August 2
Gold	Sun Yang	Swimming	Men's 800 m freestyle	August 5
Gold	Ning Zetao	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	August 6
Gold	Fu Yuanhui	Swimming	Women's 50 m backstroke	August 6
Gold	Chen Xinyi* Fu Yuanhui Lu Ying Qiu Yuhan* Shen Duo Shi Jinglin	Swimming	Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay	August 9
Silver	Huang Xuechen Sun Wenyan	Synchronized swimming	Duet technical routine	July 26
Silver	Shi Tingmao	Diving	Women's 1 m springboard	July 27
Silver	Gu Xiao Guo Li Huang Xuechen Li Xiaolu Liang Xinping Sun Wenyan Tang Mengni Xiao Yanning* Yin Chengxin* Zeng Zhen	Synchronized swimming	Team technical routine	July 27
Silver	Huang Xuechen	Synchronized swimming	Solo free routine	July 29
Silver	Huang Xuechen Sun Wenyan	Synchronized swimming	Duet free routine	July 30
Silver	Ren Qian	Diving	Women's 10 m platform	July 30
Silver	Gu Xiao Guo Li Li Xiaolu Liang Xinping Sun Wenyan Tang Mengni Yin Chengxin Zeng Zhen	Synchronized swimming	Team free routine	July 31
Silver	He Zi	Diving	Women's 3 m springboard	August 1
Silver	Gu Xiao Guo Li Li Xiaolu Liang Xinping Sun Wenyan Tang Mengni Xiao Yanning Yin Chengxin Zeng Zhen	Synchronized swimming	Free routine combination	August 1
Silver	Sun Yang	Swimming	Men's 200 m freestyle	August 4
Bronze	Sun Wenyan	Synchronized swimming	Solo technical routine	July 25
Bronze	He Zi	Diving	Women's 1 m springboard	July 27
Bronze	Xie Siyi Chen Ruolin	Diving	Mixed team	July 29
Bronze	Lu Ying	Swimming	Women's 100 m butterfly	August 3
Bronze	Wang Shun	Swimming	Men's 200 m individual medley	August 6
Bronze	Zhang Yufei	Swimming	Women's 200 m butterfly	August 6
Bronze	Liu Xiang	Swimming	Women's 50 m backstroke	August 6
Bronze	Guo Junjun Qiu Yuhan Shao Yiwen* Shen Duo Zhang Yufei Zhang Yuhan*	Swimming	Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	August 6
Bronze	Shi Jinglin	Swimming	Women's 200 m breaststroke	August 7
Bronze	Lu Ying	Swimming	Women's 50 m butterfly	August 8

Diving

Chinese divers are eligible for two spots in each individual event (1 m, 3 m, and 10 m) and one team spot for each synchronized event (3 m, 10 m, and team).

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
He Chao	1 m springboard	394.95	5 Q	—		415.50	7
Xie Siyi	1 m springboard	404.40	2 Q	—		485.50
Cao Yuan	3 m springboard	517.40	1 Q	540.80	1 Q	523.95	4
He Chao	3 m springboard	515.30	2 Q	527.95	2 Q	555.05
Qiu Bo	10 m platform	513.00	3 Q	577.00	1 Q	587.00
Yang Jian	10 m platform	501.00	4 Q	539.75	2 Q	451.20	10
Cao Yuan Qin Kai	3 m synchronized springboard	434.43	2 Q	—		471.45
Chen Aisen Lin Yue	10 m synchronized platform	470.13	1 Q	—		495.72

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
He Zi	1 m springboard	285.40	3 Q	—		300.30
Shi Tingmao	1 m springboard	307.35	1 Q	—		309.20
He Zi	3 m springboard	376.00	1 Q	371.40	2 Q	377.45
Shi Tingmao	3 m springboard	368.40	2 Q	381.90	1 Q	383.55
Ren Qian	10 m platform	411.40	1 Q	423.15	1 Q	388.00
Si Yajie	10 m platform	377.75	2 Q	395.75	2 Q	384.40	4
Shi Tingmao Wu Minxia	3 m synchronised springboard	312.90	1 Q	—		351.30
Chen Ruolin Liu Huixia	10 m synchronised platform	330.24	1 Q	—		359.52

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Wang Han Yang Hao	3 m synchronized springboard	339.90
Tai Xiaohu Si Yajie	10 m synchronized platform	350.88
Xie Siyi Chen Ruolin	Team	425.40

Open water swimming

China has fielded a team of thirteen swimmers to compete in the open water marathon. Among the official roster featured 2012 Olympian Fang Yanqiao.

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Lang Yuanpeng	5 km	59:42.8	37
Qiao Zhongyi	10 km	1:53:38.5	45
Yang Jintong	5 km	56:07.6	35
Ye Qianpeng	25 km	5:19:01.5	22
Zhang Zibin	25 km	Did not finish
Zu Lijun	10 km	1:50:46.0	17

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Cao Shiyue	25 km	6:02:49.7	17
Fang Yanqiao	5 km	1:00:51.7	20
Niu Xiaoxiao	5 km	1:03:50.4	26
Shi Yu	10 km	1:59:28.6	15
Yan Siyu	10 km	1:59:39.9	26
Yang Dandan	25 km	5:42:19.5	16

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Qiao Zhongyi Yan Siyu Zu Lijun	Team	57:53.9	14

Swimming

Chinese swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):^[1] Swimmers must qualify at the 2015 Chinese Swimming Championships (for pool events) to confirm their places for the Worlds.

The Chinese team consists of 51 swimmers (25 men and 26 women). Nineteen of these swimmers have competed at the previous World Championships in Barcelona including undisputed superstars and Olympic champions Sun Yang in the long-distance freestyle and Ye Shiwen in the individual medley.^[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hao Yun	200 m butterfly	1:59.04	25	Did not advance
Huang Chaosheng	400 m individual medley	4:19.11	19	—		Did not advance
Li Guangyuan	100 m backstroke	54.34	20	Did not advance
Li Guangyuan	200 m backstroke	1:58.02	12 Q	1:57.12	8 Q	1:56.79	8
Li Xiang	100 m breaststroke	1:00.96	27	Did not advance
Li Xiang	200 m breaststroke	2:11.30	17	Did not advance
Li Yunqi	400 m freestyle	3:51.30	26	—		Did not advance
Li Zhuhao	100 m butterfly	51.54	3 Q	51.33	4 Q	51.66	8
Mao Feilian	200 m breaststroke	2:09.56	3 Q	2:09.54	7 Q	2:10.02	8
Ning Zetao	50 m freestyle	22.43	14 Q	22.18	15	Did not advance
Ning Zetao	100 m freestyle	48.11	1 Q	48.13	2 Q	47.84
Shi Weijia	50 m breaststroke	27.65	19	Did not advance
Shi Yang	50 m butterfly	23.43	7 Q	23.44	=12	Did not advance
Sun Yang	200 m freestyle	1:46.00	1 Q	1:46.17	5 Q	1:45.20
	400 m freestyle	3:44.99	1 Q	—		3:42.58
	800 m freestyle	7:47.87	6 Q	—		7:39.96
	1500 m freestyle	14:55.11	3 Q	—		DNS
Wang Kecheng	800 m freestyle	7:56.05	19	—		Did not advance
Wang Kecheng	1500 m freestyle	15:16.69	19	—		Did not advance
Wang Pudong	200 m butterfly	1:58.20	20	Did not advance
Wang Shun	200 m individual medley	1:58.33	3 Q	1:57.07	2 Q	1:56.81
Xu Jiayu	50 m backstroke	25.71	29	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	53.29	3 Q	53.15	7 Q	52.89	4
	200 m backstroke	1:56.90	5 Q	1:55.13	3 Q	1:55.20	6
Xu Qiheng	200 m freestyle	1:49.32	35	Did not advance
Yang Zhixian	200 m individual medley	2:00.80	18	Did not advance
Yang Zhixian	400 m individual medley	4:15.47	8 Q	—		4:16.74	8
Yu Hexin	50 m freestyle	22.51	=20	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	49.50	28	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	23.87	=21	Did not advance
Ning Zetao Yu Hexin Lin Yongqing Xu Qiheng	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:15.47	8 Q	—		3:15.41	7
Xu Qiheng He Tianqi Shang Keyuan Zhang Jie	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:16.67	14	—		Did not advance
Hu Yixuan Li Xiang Li Zhuhao Ning Zetao Xu Jiayu Yu Hexin Zhang Qibin	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:35.21	11	—		Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cao Yue	400 m freestyle	4:09.60	13	—		Did not advance
Cao Yue	800 m freestyle	8:43.24	25	—		Did not advance
Chen Jie	100 m backstroke	1:00.58	14 Q	1:00.42	14	Did not advance
Chen Jie	200 m backstroke	2:11.75	18	Did not advance
Chen Xinyi	100 m butterfly	58.34	11 Q	57.63	6 Q	57.85	6
Fu Yuanhui	50 m backstroke	27.66	1 Q	27.18	1 Q	27.11
Fu Yuanhui	100 m backstroke	1:00.55	=12 Q	59.33	4 Q	59.02	4
Guo Junjun	200 m freestyle	1:58.27	=11 Q	1:57.79	12	Did not advance
He Yun	100 m breaststroke	1:09.17	30	Did not advance
Liu Xiang	50 m freestyle	24.82	9 Q	24.78	11	Did not advance
Liu Xiang	50 m backstroke	27.79	4 Q	27.67	4 Q	27.58
Liu Yaxin	200 m backstroke	2:12.30	22	Did not advance
Lu Ying	50 m butterfly	25.69	4 Q	25.79	4 Q	25.37 AS
Lu Ying	100 m butterfly	57.84	4 Q	57.36	3 Q	57.48
Shao Yiwen	400 m freestyle	4:08.93	11	—		Did not advance
Shen Duo	100 m freestyle	53.93	6 Q	53.91	7 Q	54.76	8
Shen Duo	200 m freestyle	1:56.75	4 Q	1:56.44	3 Q	1:56.27	6
Shi Jinglin	50 m breaststroke	31.57	24	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:06.45	2 Q	1:06.28	4 Q	1:06.55	5
	200 m breaststroke	2:24.09	10 Q	2:23.06	=8 Q	2:22.76	=
Suo Ran	50 m breaststroke	31.12	14 Q	31.03	9 Q	30.74	6
Wang Guoyue	1500 m freestyle	16:28.18	14	—		Did not advance
Ye Shiwen	200 m individual medley	2:11.23	5 Q	2:11.39	8 Q	2:14.01	8
Ye Shiwen	400 m individual medley	4:42.96	15	—		Did not advance
Zhang Xinyu	200 m breaststroke	2:28.57	23	Did not advance
Zhang Yufei	200 m butterfly	2:06.92	1 Q	2:07.08	4 Q	2:06.51
Zhang Yuhan	800 m freestyle	8:35.17	14	—		Did not advance
Zhou Min	200 m individual medley	2:15.08	=22	Did not advance
Zhou Min	400 m individual medley	4:50.36		—		Did not advance
Zhou Yilin	200 m butterfly	2:08.76	10 Q	2:07.69	8 Q	2:10.20	8
Zhu Menghui	50 m freestyle	25.19	17	Did not advance
Zhu Menghui	100 m freestyle	54.41	12 Q	54.77	16	Did not advance
Zhu Menghui Tang Yuting Fang Yi Shen Duo	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:37.64	=5 Q	—		3:37.64	7
Qiu Yuhan Guo Junjun Zhang Yufei Shen Duo Shao Yiwen* Zhang Yuhan*	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:54.31	5 Q	—		7:49.10
Chen Xinyi* Fu Yuanhui Lu Ying Shen Duo Shi Jinglin Qiu Yuhan*	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:57.04	1 Q	—		3:54.41

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yu Hexin Lin Yongqing Qiu Yuhan Tang Yuting	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:27.71	6 Q	3:26.94	7
Xu Jiayu Li Xiang Lu Ying Zhu Menghui Chen Xinyi*	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:47.48	6 Q	3:44.65	4

Synchronized swimming

China has fielded a full squad of synchronized swimmers to compete in each of the following events at the World Championships.

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sun Wenyan	Solo technical routine	91.3262	3 Q	91.5479
Huang Xuechen	Solo free routine	95.2000	2 Q	94.9000
Huang Xuechen Sun Wenyan	Duet technical routine	92.2791	2 Q	93.3279
Huang Xuechen Sun Wenyan	Duet free routine	95.4667	2 Q	95.9000
Gu Xiao Guo Li Huang Xuechen Li Xiaolu Liang Xinping Sun Wenyan Tang Mengni Xiao Yanning* Yin Chengxin* Zeng Zhen	Team technical routine	92.1032	2 Q	94.4605
Gu Xiao Guo Li Huang Xuechen* Li Xiaolu Liang Xinping Sun Wenyan Tang Mengni Xiao Yanning* Yin Chengxin Zeng Zhen	Team free routine	95.5000	2 Q	96.1333
Gu Xiao Guo Li Huang Xuechen* Li Mo* Li Xiaolu Liang Xinping Sun Wenyan Tang Mengni Xiao Yanning Yin Chengxin Zeng Zhen	Free routine combination	94.9333	2 Q	96.2000

Water polo

Men's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	3	3	0	0	39	17	+22	6	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	25	20	+5	4	Advanced to playoffs
3	Brazil	3	0	1	2	24	29	−5	1	Advanced to playoffs
4	China	3	0	1	2	12	34	−22	1

Source: SportResult.com
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.

27 July 2015 10:50	Report	Brazil	9–9	China	Kazan Attendance: 700 Referees: Stanko Ivanovski (MNE), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 2–1, 3–4, 1–0
		Perrone 4	Goals	Dong Tao, Zhang Chufeng 3

29 July 2015 20:10	Report	China	2–8	Canada	Kazan Attendance: 240 Referees: Stanko Ivanovski (MNE), György Kun (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 0–3, 0–3, 1–1, 1–1
		Tan Feihu 2	Goals	McElroy 3

31 July 2015 17:30	Report	Croatia	17–1	China	Kazan Attendance: 874 Referees: Daniel Flahive (AUS), Masoud Rezvani (IRI)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 5–0, 7–0, 1–0
		three players 3	Goals	Zhang Chufeng 1

13th–16th place semifinals

2 August 2015 10:50	Report	China	10–10	Russia	Kazan Attendance: 2,263 Referees: Stanko Ivanovski (MNE), Masoud Rezvani (IRI)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 4–4, 2–1, 3–3 PSO: 1–4
		Tan Feihu 4	Goals	four players 2

15th place game

4 August 2015 09:30	Report	China	16–9	Argentina	Kazan Attendance: 753 Referees: Joseph Peila (USA), Tadao Tahara (JPN)
		Score by quarters: 6–2, 3–4, 4–2, 3–1
		Dong Tao 4	Goals	Yanez 5

Women's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	3	2	1	0	38	25	+13	5	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	China	3	2	1	0	31	21	+10	5	Advanced to playoffs
3	Hungary	3	1	0	2	37	25	+12	2	Advanced to playoffs
4	France	3	0	0	3	12	47	−35	0

Source: SportResult.com
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.

26 July 2015 21:30	Report	Hungary	8–9	China	Kazan Attendance: 200 Referees: Daniel Flahive (AUS), Nenad Peris (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 4–1, 2–1, 1–3
		Antal 2	Goals	Zhao Zihan 4

28 July 2015 17:30	Report	France	4–13	China	Kazan Attendance: 1,700 Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Peter de Jong (NED)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–0, 1–6, 1–5
		Guillet 2	Goals	Niu Guannan 6

30 July 2015 18:50	Report	Russia	9–9	China	Kazan Attendance: 2,653 Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Joseph Peila (USA)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 1–2, 3–2, 2–3
		Karimova, Prokofyeva 3	Goals	Niu Guannan 4

Playoffs

1 August 2015 20:10	Report	Brazil	8–10	China	Kazan Attendance: 350 Referees: Stephane Roy (CAN), Dion Willis (RSA)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–3, 4–3, 2–2
		Chiappini 5	Goals	three players 2

Quarterfinals

3 August 2015 20:10	Report	Australia	7–7	China	Kazan Attendance: 370 Referees: Francesc Buch (ESP), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 0–1, 4–2, 1–1 PSO: 5–3
		seven players 1	Goals	Song Donglun, Zhao Zihan 2

5th–8th place semifinals

5 August 2015 15:30	Report	Spain	9–10	China	Kazan Attendance: 297 Referees: Joseph Peila (USA), Joseph Peila (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 2–1, 2–4, 2–2
		Forca 3	Goals	Song Donglun, Zhao Zihan 4

Fifth place game

7 August 2015 15:30	Report	China	9–9	Greece	Kazan Attendance: 940 Referees: Mark Koganov (AZE), György Kun (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 1–3, 2–1, 2–3 PSO: 4–3
		Niu Guannan 5	Goals	Asimaki 4

References

^ "Kazan 2015 (Swimming) – Qualifying Procedures". FINA. 6 November 2014. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
^ "Sun Yang, Ye Shiwen Headline China's 51-Swimmer Roster For World Championships". Swimming World Magazine. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

External links

CSA Official Site^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[1] "Kazan 2015 (Swimming) – Qualifying Procedures". FINA. 6 November 2014. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

[2] "Sun Yang, Ye Shiwen Headline China's 51-Swimmer Roster For World Championships". Swimming World Magazine. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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