MADRID, 8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish artistic swimming team strengthened its chances of getting a new medal in the World Cup that is being held in Doha after finishing in third place in the Free Preliminary this Thursday and taking one more step towards the long-awaited tickets for the Olympic Games of Paris this coming summer.
Cristina Arámbula, Berta Ferreras, Marina García, Txell Mas, Alisa Ozhogina, Paula Ramírez, Sara Saldaña and Iris Tió had a good exercise with their choreography based on 'Aladdin' and took the first step towards being able to get on the podium in the final of this Friday, which would ensure Olympic qualification, with the consequent success of the duo, after their silver in Technical and their fifth place in Acrobatic.
The Spanish opted for a difficult exercise, the second most of the participants along with the United States (55.7000), and achieved a total of 308.2480 points, much higher than the one they added in the last World Cup and which gave them second place. in the Preliminary (294.9313), and although far from the first two places, they did open a gap with their pursuers.
China, gold last summer in Fukuoka, dominated this Preliminary very clearly (338.4981) ahead of Japan (319.4124), current runners-up in the world, to remain very prominent in the fight for the title, while behind Spain They placed the United States (305.8229) and Ukraine (297.2999), bronze in the last World Cup, where they removed the Spanish team from the podium, punished that day by the fearsome 'base marks'.