The Spanish artistic swimming team continues to make steady progress in its fight for a medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after having passed two of the three team tests.
The group led by the Japanese Mayuko Fujiki He finished in third place in the overall classification after the development of the free routine in the Aquatic Center.
The 2023 world champions and 2024 world runners-up finished fourth in the free routine event with a score of 346.4644.
Under the music of AladdinThe Spanish women presented a routine that was highly valued in Elements (233.5644) and with a slightly lower score in Artistic Impression (112.9000). However, they paid dearly for a basemark that was not performed correctly, which affected the degree of difficulty of the routine, which was 67.805.
In this way, the Spanish team came in third place in the overall classification, behind the representatives of People’s Republic of Chinawho, as in the technical routine, were again the best qualified in the free routine (398.8917) and add up to a total of 712.4455.
In this way, the Spanish women, with a total of 633.6119 points, were facing the acrobatic routine on Wednesday, August 7, in the direct fight with USA (643.0255) and with Japan (627.9308) for the silver and bronze medals. The Chinese representatives would have to be the protagonists of a catastrophe to avoid winning the gold medal on the last day of competition.
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