Wang twins win fourth artistic gold in Doha
Doha: China’s gold medal tally swelled to 12 at the World Aquatics Championships Doha after Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi clinched the women’s duet free title, while Yang Hao and Lian Junjie won a thrilling men’s 10m synchronised platform diving final on Thursday.
For Liuyi and Qianyi it was their fourth gold medal in Doha as they edged Dutch pair Bregje de Brouwer and Noortje de Brouwer in an absorbing battle of the two twins.
The de Brouwer twins missed out on the title by a mere 0.2750 as the Wang sisters completed a duet double, while Great Britain’s Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe took bronze.
It has been an incredible World Championships for the Wang twins having topped the podium in both the women duet technical and women duet free as well as helping China to mixed team acrobatic routine and mixed team technical titles. At Fukuoka 2023, the Chinese duo picked up one medal from the duet competitions courtesy of a silver in the duet free but they have been back to their very best at the Aspire Dome.
Wang siblings received 158.0229 for elements and 92.7500 for artistic impression to a degree of difficulty of 42.150 for a winning score of 250.7729. It takes their overall world title tally to 10 stretching back to when they won team free combination bronze at Budapest 2017.
“I feel so excited about what we achieved here,” said Wang Liuyi. “To win four out of four gold medals can’t be easy. This achievement was based on our hard training on every single day and also thanks to our great team, which inspired us to show our best version. We had won four straight gold medals in Budapest 2022, too, so we knew that we could do it again. This time our main goal was to also combine it with a great performance in each event.”
There was unfinished business for the de Brouwer sisters having finished one place short of a medal in the women duet technical. The scored 250.4979, including 159.9479 for elements and 90.5500 for artistic impression to a degree of difficulty of 43.700.
Later at the Hamad Aquatics Centre, Yang Hao and Lian Junjie won their third-consecutive world title together with a dominating 48.4-point margin of victory.
They won ahead of the British hero Tom Daley and his partner Noah Williams. Daley won his second medal of the competition, following gold in the team event, just six months after a return from a two year diving hiatus. The Ukrainian pair of Kirill Boliukh and Oleksii Sereda, one of the youngest duos in the competition, took bronze.
Meanwhile, the Australian team of Moesha Johnson, Chelsea Gubecka, Nicholas Sloman and Kyle Lee took down defending champions Italy in the final open water swimming event of the World Aquatics Championships – Doha.
Australia won a scrapping fight over Italy and Hungary to close out the open water swimming schedule at the Old Doha Port.
Ir was Australia’s first-ever gold medal in the open water team relay at the World Championships at 1:03:28.0 as Lee got the final touch over the Italian team in silver at 1:03:28.2.
The Italians won the silver for their fifth straight medal in this relay with the team of Giulia Gabbrielleschi, Arianna Bridi, Gregorio Paltrinieri, and Domenico Acerenza.
Hungary lost touch with the lead pack but won the bronze for the third straight medal at the championships with the team of Bettina Fabian, Mira Szimcsak, David Betlehem, and Kristof Rasovszky touching at 1:04:06.8.
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