The Spanish Hugo González won the gold medal this Friday, following winning the 200 meter backstroke event at the Doha World Cup. With a finish time of 1:55.30, the Mallorcan swimmer finished ten hundredths ahead of the Swiss Roman Mityukov (1:55.40), while the South African Pieter Coetze completed the podium.
González thus achieved her second medal in the Swimming World Cup, where last Tuesday she had already achieved silver in the 100-meter backstroke final, the first medal for Spanish swimming in the pool modality since the three achieved by Mireia Belmonte in 2017. .
Furthermore, with this triumph, González became the fourth Spaniard to be crowned world champion in long course following Martín López Zubero, gold in the 200 backstroke in 1991 and gold in the 100 meters backstroke in 1994, Nina Zhivanevskaya, gold in the 50 meters backstroke in 2003, and the aforementioned Mireia Belmonte, gold in the 200 butterfly in 2017.
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