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Last Updated: February 06, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Twins Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi teamed as much as seize one other gold medal for China in inventive swimming on the World Aquatics Championships on Monday.
DOHA, Qatar: Twins Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi teamed as much as seize one other gold medal for China in inventive swimming on the World Aquatics Championships on Monday.
The 27-12 months-outdated sisters received the ladies’s duet technical routine with a rating of 266.0484 factors.
They have mixed for eight gold medals over their world championship careers, together with two in Doha. They had been a part of the profitable group within the group acrobatic occasion on Sunday.
Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe gave Britain its greatest exhibiting ever at worlds, capturing the silver with marks of 259.5601. The nation’s solely different medal in inventive swimming was Shortman’s solo free bronze finally summer season’s championships in Fukuoka.
Spain’s Alisa Ozhogina Ozhogin and Iris Tio Casa settled for bronze at 258.0333, repeating their end from 2023.
The Wangs had been again on prime in duet technical after a disappointing fourth-place exhibiting at Fukuoka. They had beforehand received the occasion on the 2022 worlds in Budapest.
Italy’s Linda Cerruti and Lucrezia Ruggiero, who captured the silver in Fukuoka, slipped to ninth in Doha. The reigning world champions from Japan didn’t compete.
Artistic swimming is break up into 11 medal-profitable alternatives on the world championships. There are solely two occasions on the Olympic program, duet and group.
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