In each sport, there is a particular goal that the athlete tries to reach. For runners, it’s running fast and for weightlifters, it’s lifting as much as possible. For divers, it’s all about the splash.
Recently, a video of an Olympic diver has resurfaced after a year has passed. It is of a 17-year-old, and she was able to enter the water without making a visible splash.
Quan Hongchan, from China, was able to achieve that feat and it blew away the judges at the World Cup last year. Now that the video has resurfaced, people watching it can’t believe what they are seeing.
She had also just won two gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, including one that achieved a perfect score of 10. The video from the World Aquatics Diving World Cup 2023 in Montréal, Canada really shows what she is capable of doing.
According to the Olympics website: “She scored a total of 425.60 points and ranked first for four out of the five dives, with only her third-round dive ranking second among the 12 finalists.” Her teammate also took a silver with 420.70 points.
After that monumental win, footage of last year’s dive, in which she would’ve been around 16 years old and didn’t make a single splash has surfaced.
After being shared on Twitter, it was captured: “Quan Hongchan, wins gold with a dive so flawless the water doesn’t even splash.”
You can see her performing a ‘back three-and-a-half somersaults tuck’ in a way that left people amazed.
Many people commented about how it seemed impossible for somebody to dive into the water without making a splash. I have to agree, as I’m much better at doing a cannonball.
