World champion Mayya Doroshko continued her impressive run at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup in Paris, with a third gold in two days, combining with Aleksandra Shmidt to claim the Women\u2019s Duet Free title on the second day of competition in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 26-year-old, who won the\u00a0Women\u2019s Duet Tech final\u00a0with\u00a0Elizaveta Minaeva\u00a0and partnered her again as part of their nation\u2019s eight-strong Team Free title-winning side on Friday, was again in peerless form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doroshko\u00a0and\u00a0Minaeva\u00a0attained an overall score of 310.0214 for their\u00a0\u2018Rising Force\u2019<\/em>\u00a0themed routine to claim a clear win over second-place finishers\u00a0Kira Cherezova\u00a0and\u00a0Valentina Gerasimova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They attained 295.8262pts to secure another silver medal, following their success in the Duet Tech event 24 hours earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Completing the podium places in an event which featured an impressive line-up of 22 duets, were French swimmers\u00a0Laelys Alavez\u00a0and\u00a0Romane Lunel\u00a0(271.4826). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The excitable crowd cheered on the Olympians throughout their \u2018Octopus\u2019 <\/em>inspired routine and even louder when it was confirmed they had secured the host nation\u2019s second medal of the World Cup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Minaeva returned to the water for the evening session where, when reunited with her wider squad of team-mates, the two-time World silver medallist help lead them to a further success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Neutral Athletes B backed up their Team Free win on Friday with another commanding performance, this time in the Team Tech event, as their display to a \u2018Backstage Romance\u2019 themed routine attained a gold-medal-winning score of 301.1766 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Claiming second, with a dramatically improved performance when compared to their display in the Free final, were\u00a0Italy (277.6866 pts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rounding off the top-three were\u00a0Greece, who celebrated enthusiastically after landing a base mark free score of 274.7751 for their\u00a0\u2018Watch Me\u2019\u00a0<\/em>themed routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18-year-old duo\u00a0Alina Rumiantseva\u00a0and\u00a0Zakhar Trofimov\u00a0marked their World Cup debut with an impressive victory in a high-class\u00a0Mixed Duet Technical\u00a0contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fellow teenagers,\u00a0Yasmina Islamova\u00a0and\u00a0Aldiyar Ramazanov, who are 16 and 17 respectively and hail from Kazakhstan, were each part of their nation\u2019s Team Free gold medal-winning line-up in Paris last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They secured a second Parisian podium position with a hard-fought silver, placing one position higher than they achieved in the Mixed Duet Technical at the season opening World Cup in Medellin, Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Completing the top-three were popular Colombian duet\u00a0Gustavo Sanchez\u00a0and\u00a0Emily Minante, who demonstrated significant improvements to their performance which had seen them place fifth in home waters last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicolas Campos-Theodora Garrido\u00a0of Chile and China\u2019s\u00a0Cao Yixin-Shi Haoyue\u00a0placed fourth and fifth respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n World championship medallists\u00a0Isabelle Thorpe-Ranjuo Tomblin placed a surprise sixth, but will return for the Mixed Duet Free event on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World champion Mayya Doroshko continued her impressive run at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup in Paris,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[315,382],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-aquatics","tag-artistic-swimming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t