Dennis González takes silver
Dennis González lived as much as expectations and earned the Spanish delegation’s first medal on the World Championships in Singapore, after taking silver within the males’s solo technical routine closing on Saturday. The second medal of the day for the Spanish workforce got here with Iris Tió’s bronze within the ladies’s class of the identical occasion.
González, who achieved a complete of 241.1667 factors, was simply over ten factors – 10.5466 – behind the Russian Alexandr Maltsev, who’s competing in Singapore as a impartial athlete and who was topped the brand new world champion with a rating of 251.7133
Finishing the rostrum was Mexican Diego Villalobos, winner of this 12 months’s World Cup Superfinal, who took the bronze medal with a rating of 238.1600.
A end result that mirrored the altering instances that males’s inventive swimming is experiencing , with the rise of figures comparable to Dennis González himself, 21, and the Mexican Villalobos, 20.
But when one factor was clear, it was the utterly totally different understanding of the game held by two figures like Spaniard Dennis González, destined to dominate the game within the coming years, and a real legend like Russian Alexandr Maltsev, who was returning to the World Championship.
Whereas the Spanish swimmer made a decided effort to impress with a transferring efficiency of Billie Eilish and Khalid’s tune “Pretty,” the Russian centered on the technical issue of his components.
A circumstance that allowed Maltsev, 30 years previous, who was returning to the World Championships six years later , to begin the competitors with an issue rating – 32.0500 – nearly 5 factors larger than that of the Spaniard – 27.7000.
However Dennis González was not intimidated, and he immersed the judges and viewers within the disturbing interior world of American singer Billie Ellish with a chic efficiency .
Iris Tió falls a couple of tenths in need of silver.
For her half, Iris Tió has earned the second medal for the Spanish delegation on the World Championships in Singapore, after successful bronze within the ladies’s solo technical routine closing on Saturday.
Tió, who achieved a rating of 260.2917 factors , was twelve factors behind the winner, the Chinese language Huiyan Xu, who was topped the brand new world champion with a rating of 272.9917.
Finishing the rostrum was Belarusian Vasilina Khandoshka , who’s competing in Singapore as a impartial athlete and who received the silver medal with a rating of 260.5416 factors, simply two-tenths greater than the Spanish swimmer.
With the bronze medal received by Iris Tio, the Spanish workforce now has two medals in Singapore, the place this Saturday Dennis González received silver within the males’s technical solo closing.
