MADRID, 4 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish artistic swimming team has finished in fifth position in the acrobatic routine final of the World Swimming Championships, which are being held in Doha, an event in which China has won the gold medal ahead of Ukraine and of the United States.
In a key competition in the qualification process for the Olympic Games, Mayuko Fujiki's team took the first step towards Paris by finishing in the Olympic zone, the 'Top 5', in the first of the three team finals (acrobatic, technical and free); The first five of the three final classifications will have a ticket for the Games and will drag their duos.
The Spanish, fifth in the preliminary, almost nailed the score (219.9367), despite the fact that Fujiki made changes to the swimmers to try to enhance the acrobatics, with Sara Saldaña and Cristina Arámbula in charge of the jumps.
Spain's difficulty score was 22.10 and, although she did not obtain base marks, she did not achieve a great grade in execution, which relegated her to fifth place after her routine to the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'.
For its part, China, with the Spanish Ana Tarrés on its technical staff, revalidated its gold in the acrobatic exercise (244.1767 points) after narrowly beating Ukraine (243.3167) and the United States of Andrea Fuentes (242.2300).
After the test, Sara Saldaña acknowledged that in the acrobatic routine “you suffer a lot.” “We do many risky elements with the acrobatics, but at the same time it is a routine that is not as tiring as others and you can enjoy it more by giving it more energy and more power. Now we are missing the technician and in the free practice, where we are going to show what we have improved. You suffer, but when it comes out, which is most of the time, you enjoy it more,” he declared.