2 Swimmers Serve as Flag Bearers for Tokyo 2020 Olympics Closing Ceremony swimswam.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from swimswam.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
No surprise: Russia leads artistic swimming duet prelims Today 04:00 am JST Today | 06:50 am JST TOKYO
Overwhelming favorites Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko of Russia led artistic swimming duet after the free routine preliminaries Monday night.
Romashina and Kolesnichenko received marks totaling 97.9000 points for a routine that was accompanied by the music “Spiders.”
They were followed by China’s Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan with 96.2333 and Ukraine’s Marta Fiedina and Anastasiya Savchuk at 94.9333.
The 31-year-old Romashina is going for her record sixth gold medal. She is tied for the most in the sport’s Olympic history with fellow Russians Anastasia Davydova and Natalia Ishchenko.
Italy stake strongest claim to Tokyo 2020 on day one of Olympic artistic swimming qualifier zwemza.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zwemza.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The International Swimming Federation's Artistic Swimming Olympic
Games Qualifying Tournament, offering 13 Olympic berths across two
disciplines, started today in Barcelona with team technical routines.