After nine days of diving at the OCBC Aquatic Centre, a look back at a few milestones in the 13 medal events.
China topped the medal chart with 16 medals (9 gold, 3 silver, 4 bronze) and only missed one podium in 13 events (men’s 10m).
Diving World Champions – Singapore 2025
Men’s 1m springboard: Zheng Jiuyuan (CHN)
Men’s 3m springboard: Osmar Olvera Ibarra (MEX)
Men’s 10m platform: Cassiel Rousseau (AUS)
Men’s Synchro 3m springboard: Wang Zongyuan + Zheng Jiuyuan (CHN)
Men’s Synchro 10m platform: Cheng Zilong + Zhu Zifeng (CHN)
Women’s 1m springboard: Maddison Keeney (AUS)
Women’s 3m springboard: Chen Yiwen (CHN)
Women’s 10m platform: Chen Yuxi (CHN)
Women’s Synchro 3m springboard: Chen Yiwen + Chen Jia (CHN)
Women’s Synchro 10m platform: Chen Yuxi + Zhang Minjie (CHN)
Mixed Synchro 3m springboard: Matteo Santoro + Chiara Pellacani (ITA)
Mixed Synchro 10m platform: Zhu Yongxin + Xie Peiling (CHN)
Mixed Team Event: Cheng Zilong, Chen Yiwen, Cao Yuan, and Chen Yuxi (CHN)
Notable Achievements by athletes in Singapore
Osmar Olvera Ibarra won the most medals (4): 1 gold, 3 silvers
Chen Yiwen and Chen Yuxi won the most gold medals (3 apiece)
Milestones
Narrowest winning margins: Three gold medals were determined by less than one point:
0.06 point in mixed 10m synchro (silver medalists were Choe Wi-Hyon/Jo Jin-Mi (PRK))
0.87 point in mixed 3m synchro (silver medalists were Cassiel Rousseau/Maddison Keeney (AUS))
0.93 point in men’s 10m synchro (silver medalists were Nikita Schleikher/Ruslan Ternovoi (NAB))
Largest winning margin: 63.40 points in women’s 10m where Chen Yuxi defeated Pauline Pfeif of Germany
Four-peats (3): There were three in Singapore and they were the only ones to defend 2024 gold.
Men’s 3m synchro – for Wang Zongyuan (CHN) with his third partner, Zheng Jiuyuan
Women’s 3m synchro – for Chen Yiwen (CHN) with her second partner, Chen Jia
Women’s 10m synchro – for Chen Yuxi (CHN) with her second partner, Zhang Minjie
Quadruple medalists (1): Osmar Olvera Ibarra (MEX) – 1 gold, 3 silver
Triple medalists (4): Chen Yiwen (CHN, 3 gold), Chen Yuxi (CHN, 3 gold), Chen Zilong (CHN, 2 gold, 1 bronze), Chiara Pellacani (AUS, 1 gold, 2 bronze)
Youngest medalists: Twins Li and Mia Cueva Lobato of Mexico earned bronze in women’s 3m synchro at 14 years, 6 months, 28 days
History
Matteo Santoro and Chiara Pellacani’s victory in mixed 3m synchro made Santoro the first – and only – Italian man to win a world championship diving title since Klaus Dibiasi’s back-to-back 10m titles in 1973 and 1975.
Pauline Pfeif’s silver medal in women’s 10m made her the first German woman to win an individual diving medal at the world championships since 2007 when Christin Steuer earned bronze in women’s 10m.
Osmar Olverra Ibarra’s victory in men’s 3m gave Mexico its third gold medal in world championship history. (The others were Paola Espinosa’s 2009 Rome gold in women’s 10m, and Olvera Ibarra’s 2024 Doha gold in men’s 1m)
Maddison Keeney of Australia won her second world title in women’s 1m eight years after her first (in 2017), which tied Tom Daley for the longest gap between individual diving world titles. (Daley won men’s 10m gold in 2009 and 2017.)
Just Sayin’
54 nations competed but only four won gold (China 10, Australia 2, Italy 1, Mexico 1)