GWANGJU (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th July, 2019) Russian artistic swimmers Aleksandr Maltsev and Mayya Gurbanberdieva won gold in the mix duet free program at the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships in the South Korean city of Gwangju.
Maltsev and Gurbanberdieva scored 92.9667 points. Italian duet of Manila Flamini and Giorgio Minisini won silver with 91.8333, while Japan's Atsushi Abe and Yumi Adachi got bronze, scoring 90.4000.
Thus, Maltsev won both technical and free programs at the World Championships for the first time in his career, becoming the first man to achieve such a result.
At the World Championships in Kazan in 2015, where men competed in this discipline for the first time, Maltsev won the free program with his partner Darina Valitova, and finished second in the technical duet. In Budapest, he also won gold in free routine and silver in technical one in duet with Mikhaela Kalancha.
Russia also won gold in free routine combination. The team of Anastasia Arkhipovskaya, Vlada Chigireva, Mayya Doroshko, Marina Goliadkina, Mikhaela Kalancha, Veronika Kalinina, Polina Komar, Alla Shishkina, Maria Shurochkina and Varvara Subbotina scored 98.0000 points.
The Chinese team got silver medals with 96.5667, Ukraine won bronze with 94.5333.
As a result, the Russian artistic swimming squad won nine golds in 10 events. The Ukrainian team won the remaining one in highlight routine, in which the Russians did not take part.
