Dennis Gonzalez and Mireya Hernandez, world silver in artistic swimming duet | Kinds of sports

The Spanish mixed free skating duo of Dennis Gonzalez and Mireya Hernandez did well to take the silver medal in the event that caps the Artistic Swimming World Cup, a test in which China again led and Mexico finished on the podium. This is the sixth medal for the Spanish delegation at the World Swimming Championships, the fourth in synchronized swimming after silver won by the technical team and Dennis Gonzalez in the free program, and bronze by Alisa Ozhogina and Iris Tio in the technical duet. Maria de Valdez won the other two: silver in the 10km open water swimming and historic bronze by Adriana Abadia and Nico Garcia in the 3m synchronized springboard, Spain’s first-ever medal at a World Championships.

In the free duet, Asians Wentao Cheng and Haoyu Shi added 224.1437 points, and the Spaniards rose to 208.3583. The fight for bronze was between Mexicans Trinidad Mesa and Diego Villalobos, who scored 192.5772 points, while Colombians Jennifer Serquera and Gustavo Sanchez rose to 191.8729. The exercise of Dennis Gonzalez, who won silver in the free skate after two fourth places, and Mireya Hernandez is based on composition hip-hoptaken from the movie Step forward. This is a new program that premiered at this World Championships, with very lively music, which allows them to stage very dynamic, strong choreography at a good technical level. Apart from the medal and the fact that Spain achieved less than at the last world championships (7-4), the big success of Spanish artistic swimming, the team coached by Mayuko Fujiki, is achieving Olympic places in the team event and in duets for the Paris Games. In the capital of the world, Spain will have maximum representation in this specialty and has well-founded medal ambitions.

After the competition, Dennis Gonzalez and Mireya Hernandez admitted that they were satisfied that they had won silver. Gonzalez admitted they were “super intense” throughout the championship. “We were left with a bad feeling about the technical duet, and we thought of giving everything in the free duet, in which we went with the added technical difficulty, but China increased it even more,” he noted. The swimmer from Kallipolis noted that they swam according to the same program as in the preliminary competition. “We did it very calmly and we certainly did it better than we thought,” he said. Dennis Gonzalez noted that it was a difficult championship due to overexertion. “I had to do more exercises than at the previous World Championships and I also had problems with my hands almost from the first day, but I focused on the competition, step by step, day by day, and the last day arrived and “We finished in the best possible way.” “, he insisted.

Her duet partner Mireya Hernandez was proud of what she had accomplished. “It was a very long championship, there are a lot of tests and with these new rules you never know what you will be subjected to,” the swimmer said. “We still have a thorn in the technical (exercise) due to the fact that in the final base level That put us in fourth place, well off the podium, and I think we gave it our all today,” he said. Mireya Hernandez explained that this work does not belong only to her and Dennis Gonzalez: “It is true that we are the ones who jump into the pool, but there are many people who participate so that we can be there,” she insisted. As for the balance – four medals in synchronized swimming at this world championships – Hernandez said she was pleased, but there was always room for improvement. “What makes sport magical is the desire to always go a little further. It was a very short season, the previous World Cup wasn’t even six months ago, and the progress has been incredible, we have increased the difficulty in all programs and kept the artistic theme, which is a beautiful part of Spain,” he insisted.

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