FINA World Championships Barcelona 2013: Russia and Romashina get their second gold with the Duet Technical Routine

RENANG INDAH-As was expected, Russia carried on accumulating gold medals today in the Palau Sant Jordi swimming pool. Yesterday it was the Technical Solo and today the powerful supremacy of the synchronised world have added a second one, again in the hands of Svetlana Romashina, who performed today with Svetlana Kolesnichenko. The silver has gone to the Chinese partnership formed of twins Tingting and Wenwen Jiang and the bronze for the Spanish Ona Carbonell and Margarida Crespí. So the podium mirrored yesterday´s.

Svetlana Romashina, 23 years old, has become the most prize-winning swimmer until now at the 15th FINA World Championships. In Barcelona, this young girl from Moscow who studies Information Technology, has taken two consecutive golds and is aspiring for two more (solo and duet free routine). She has decided not to participate in the Team and Combo events.

Today, just like yesterday in Solo, Romashina displayed new evidence of the technical skills of Russian syncronised swimming. The routine was comparable to the Bolshoi Ballet with its artistic quality and physically convincing nature. Even after the morning session the cards were already dealt regarding the podium: Russia, China and Spain were separated by little more than one point. But the final had to be completed to see if that previous difference would maintain. And that was how it went, repeating the formation of the Solo Technical Routine podium.

Like Romashina with her gold, the Spaniard Ona Carbonell has now collected two bronze medals. Today the two solo swimmers had Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Margalida Crespí respectively, as partners on the podium.

Including today´s, Russia has now achieved 21 gold medals out of a possible 23 in the history of the World Championships since FINA decided to separate the Technical and Free Routines. Since then, they have won all of the Technical gold’s.

The schedule for tomorrow in Palau Sant Jordi includes the preliminaries of the Free Solo Routine (from 9 am until 1 pm) and the final of the Team Technical Routine in the evening at 7 pm. Russia, Spain and Ukraine will be starting off with the best scores