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Russia’s Natalia Ishchenko (left) and Svetlana Romashina perform during the synchonised swimming duet free final at Aquatics World Championships in Kazan, Russia. (Reuters)
Kazan: Russia’s Natalia Ishchenko swept her third gold medal of the Kazan world aquatic championships yesterday with victory alongside Svetlana Romashina in the synchronised swimming duet free routine.
Ishchenko’s victory alongside Romashina came just 24 hours after the 29-year-old became the most decorated synchronised swimmer of all time by winning the individual freestyle and she now has 19 world championship gold medals to her name.
Her achievement is all the more impressive as she continues to storm back in her first major competition since giving birth. Ishchenko has completed her treble of golds in Kazan after also winning gold alongside Romashina in the duet technical routine last Sunday in the Kazan Arena.
The Russian pair struck gold in the duet free routine with a winning tally of 98.2 points ahead of Chinese pair Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan, who took silver with 95.9 pts. The Ukraine team of Lolita Ananasova and Anna Voloshyna took bronze with 93.6 pts.
Germany defend team open water gold
Germany successfully defended their team open water title over five kilometres at the world aquatic championships in Kazan.
The German trio of Rob Muffels, Christian Reichert and Isabelle Haerle clocked a winning time of 55min 14.4sec while Brazil and European champions Netherlands both shared silver as their three swimmers finished in an identical time of 16.8secs back.
“I had a bit of fear after the first very fast lap whether I could sustain the pace,” admitted Haerle.
Netherlands swimmer Ferry Weertman, whose Twitter account is the imaginatively named @veryferryfast, claimed his second silver of these world championships having finished second in Monday’s 10km men’s race.
German youngster Muffels, 20, added gold to the silver he won in the men’s 5km race on Saturday.
His compatriots Reichert and Haerle were part of the German team which won gold two years ago in Barcelona with Muffels new to the trio, replacing retired seven-time world gold-medallist Thomas Lurz.
The open water team event is a time trial with each country nominating two male and one female swimmers.
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