The Spanish mixed free duo, with Dennis González and Mireia Hernández, did not fail and won the silver medal in the competition that closes artistic swimming in this World Cup, in a test in which China once again took the lead and Mexico completed the podium.
It is the sixth medal for the Spanish delegation, the fourth in this World Cup, after the silver achieved by the technical team and Dennis González in the free solo and the bronze by Alisa Ozhogina and Iris Tió in the technical duo.
The other two have been achieved by María de Valdés, a silver in the 10 km open water swimming, and the historic bronze by Adrián Abadía and Nico García in the synchronized 3 m springboard, the first Spanish medal in a World Cup in history.
In the free duo, the Asians Wentao Cheng and Haoyu Shi added 224.1437 points, while the Spaniards went up to 208.3583. The fight for bronze was closer between the Mexicans Trinidad Meza and Diego Villalobos, with 192.5772 points, and the Colombians Jennifer Cerquera and Gustavo Sánchez went up to 191.8729.
The exercise by Dennis González, who after two fourth places won a silver in the free solo, and Mireia Hernández is based on a ‘hiphop’ composition, taken from the film ‘Step Up’.
It is a new routine, which they premiered at this World Cup, with very lively music that allows them a very dynamic, strong choreography with a good technical level.
Beyond the medal, and that Spain achieved less than in the last World Cup (7-4), the great success of Spanish artistic swimming, a team coached by Mayuko Fujiki, is the achievement of Olympic places in the team competition and in duos for the Paris Games. In the capital of light, Spain will have the maximum representation in this specialty and has well-founded medal aspirations.
