Russia has won the gold medal in the synchronized swimming team event with a perfect score of 100.00 in the team free routine.
Spain won the silver medal and China won the bronze.
Russia:
DAVYDOVA Anastasia
ERMAKOVA Anastasia
GROMOVA Maria
ISHCHENKO Natalia
KHASYANOVA Elvira
KUZHELA Olga
ROMASHINA Svetlana
SHORINA Anna
OVCHINNIKOVA Elena
Spain
CABELLO Alba Maria
CORRAL Raquel
FUENTES Andrea
HENRIQUEZ Thais
LOPEZ Laura
MENGUAL Gemma
RODRIGUEZ Irina
TIRADOS Paola
MORON Gisela
China
GU Beibei
JIANG Tingting
JIANG Wenwen
LIU Ou
LUO [...]
– Russia won the Synchronized Swimming Team Event gold medal after they finished a perfect 100.000 performance in the Team Free Routine on August 23, scoring a cumulative total of 99.500 points. Spain won the silver medal with a total score of 98.251. Host China earned the bronze medal with 97.334 points. Placing fourth [...]
Russian’s Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova won the gold medal in the synchronized swimming duet free gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Spain’s Andrea Fuentes and Gemma Mengual won the silver and Japan’s Saho Harada and Emiko Suzuki won the bronze medal.
Synchronized swimming is perhaps one of the most ridiculed events at the Olympics. I am sure there are plenty of fans of the event, but there are also people who don’t think it belongs in the Olympics.
Jim White from the Telegraph writes:
And it is true, synchronised swimming is a huge test of [...]
World champions Wang Feng and Qin Kai won the men’s synchronized 3m springboard title here on Wednesday to continue China’s diving domination with the hosts’ fourth straight gold in Beijing’s diving pool.
While US star Michael Phelps is dominating the Water Cube’s pool, China are sweeping aside all rivals next door in the diving and [...]
Reuters interviewed Spain’s synchronized swimmer Gemma Mengual from Spain and found there is a lot more to the sport than smiles and make-up.
“We train between eight and nine hours a day,” Spain’s leading synchronized swimmer Gemma Mengual told Reuters television.
“In the morning we work on the physical elements and do some work in the gym. [...]