The sixth place of the duet’s technical program was occupied by Evangelia Plataniotis and Sofia Malkogeorgouin the Fukuoka World Aquatics Championships. The Greek artistic swimming champions slightly improved their score compared to the qualifier (238.4784 vs. 236.1667b on Friday) and gained a place, in a final where there were a lot of big reshuffles.
A more typical case, the Japanese Moe Higa and Mashiro Yasunaga, who had barely made it to 12th, but in the final they overturned all the facts and took the gold medal with 273.9500 points. The second place was taken by the Italians Linda Cerutti and Lucrezia Ruggiero (8th in the qualifier) ​​with 263.0334b. and on the third the Spaniards Alisa Ozogina and Iris Tio Casas (9th in the qualifier) ​​with 257.8368b.
The unpredictability that the new scoring code brings to artistic swimming was confirmed by the failure of the first three pairs of last year’s event. Twin sisters Liuyi and Qianyi Wang from China, who were the big favourites, finished fourth, the Greeks Anna-Maria and Irini Alexandri, who compete for Austria, in the fifthwhile the Ukrainians Marina and Vladislava Alexiiva “sunk” in tenth place.
The first eight of the final in the duet’s technical program:
1. Higa/Yasunaga (Japan) 273.9500
2. Cerutti/Ruggiero (Italy) 263.0334
3. Ozogina/Tio Casas (Spain) 257.8368
4. Liuyi Wang/Kianyi Wang (China) 249.4099
5. A.-M. Alexandri/Ir. Alexandri (Austria) 240.5117
6. Plataniotis/Malkogeorgou (GREECE) 238.4784
7. B. De Brouwer/N. De Brouwer (Netherlands) 231.7799
8. Shortman/Thorpe (UK) 228.3801
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