The Spanish artistic swimming team finished in fourth position the final of the free team routine at the Fukuoka World Championships (Japan), narrowly missing out on a medal and unable to repeat the podium he landed on with gold in the technical team routine.
China met the forecasts and took the gold, with Japan in second position and Ukraine in third. But only 6.5894 points separated the Spanish, fourth, from that third position and from being able to add a seventh medal to the medal table, after the six conquests by the artistic team in Fukuoka.
Again, the ‘base mark’ were key. Up to three penalties had the performance of Spain in this final, despite the fact that Mayu Fujiki and the rest of the coaching staff were happy as soon as the team finished their ‘Aladdin’ story. The Disney movie served as inspiration but in this final the team of Spanish ‘mermaids’ was left without magic and without wishes to fulfill. For very little there was no medal and, without so many ‘base mark’, the story would have been very different.
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Despite the fact that the Spanish were in second position, only behind China, which would ultimately be champions, they were finally overtaken by Japan and Ukraine. And that they only committed negative 1.5 points in timing errors and had a good artistic impression.
In a very difficult exercise but far from the total difficulty of the routines of the powers that won the medals, Spain paid dearly for those ‘base mark’ errors and could not revalidate the second position achieved in the preliminary round. From second to fourth, and if they had maintained the previous score they would have been bronze.
2023-07-21 15:29:13
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