Anna Kozina, FINA Media Committee Member
31 July
2015
Russia
succeeded in team free routine, winning the seventh gold medal in synchro
events at the FINA World Championships in Kazan. China and Japan are the two
other nations on the podium.
Vlada
Chigireva, Aleksandra Patskevich, Alla Shishkina, Anzhelika Timanina, Svetlana
Kolesnichenko, Elena Prokofyeva, Maria Shurochkina and Gelena Topilina
performed their incredible “Pray” programme on Nick Cave’s music, which speaks
to the heart.
The Russians were very happy to get pretty high marks in the preliminaries (97,6333).
The Russians were very happy to get pretty high marks in the preliminaries (97,6333).
Nevertheless,
they were determined to show a better execution in the final. As they say,
every single performance is considered to be the performance of their
life-time. And Russians were rewarded for their hard work and quest for
excellence, earning superior 98,4667 points with “ten” for artistry.
Team
China displayed a beautiful and dynamic “Fight with a dragon” strong in
technique and artistic impression and got silver (96,1333). Japan who showed
great progress finished in the third place.
The
only five-time Olympic champion in synchronised swimming in history Anastasia
Davydova said that she was about to cry while watching the programme “Pray”
from the tribune. First of all, the performance affected emotionally. This is
one more masterpiece created by the head coach of team Russia Tatiana Pokrovskaya.
Secondly, three girls out of eight – Alla Shishkina, Anzhelika Timanina and
Aleksandra Patskevich – were Davydova’s teammates at her last Olympic Games in
London 2012, so she cheered for them with even more passion.
Davydova
also added that team Japan, from her point of view, outperformed opponents from
China in synchro elements and accuracy, but should work more on acrobatics and
lifts.
Quotes
Gold medallist Svetlana Kolesnichenko (RUS): "We
are very happy with the points we have received. We were inspired by the 10 points we got. Of course everyone
is tired but there is very little left to go. This routine was quite difficult.
The most important thing was to express the emotions of praying, to make people
understand that we all try and protect ourselves. This is a difficult image and
we have been working hard on it. And such a final, a gold medal also gives us a
boost to do our best in the combination tomorrow. We will be happy and
cheerful!"
Gold
medallist Aleksandra Patskevich (RUS) comments after her performance:
"There is no secret about the reason for our success. Just long hours of hard work. The marks speak for themselves. I am looking at the display, there is almost a two-point margin. I like free routine better than the technical one. You can express more emotions here and improvise within the routine. While our opportunities are limited in the technical routine".
"There is no secret about the reason for our success. Just long hours of hard work. The marks speak for themselves. I am looking at the display, there is almost a two-point margin. I like free routine better than the technical one. You can express more emotions here and improvise within the routine. While our opportunities are limited in the technical routine".
Gold
medallist Anzhelika Timanina: “We have been preparing this programme from one
entire year. Now we have to prepare for the Olympic Games. We spend about ten
hours per day working out but we try to avoid certain type of food especially
before the competition.”
Gold
medallist Vlada Chigireva: “It’s difficult to be creative in the programme but
our coaches had a lot of fantasy. Our programme is hard because we represent
angels who are praying. We try to touch people’s emotion. It’s a rich a
powerful programme. It had been elaborated by all of us together.”
Silver
medallist Sun Wenyan (CHN): "Each medal, in either solo, duo or team
sports, is very precious to me. Among all the disciplines I prefer solo because
solo competitions are more exciting. While when we are performing in a team we
always want to be better and stronger. We have become stronger since last year".
Silver
medallist GU Xiao : “Team Russia performed so well. We would like to achieve
this level one day!”
Silver
medallist Yukiko Inui: “We are inspired by the sharpness of the Russians.”
Silver
medallist Aika Hakoyama: “The Russians seem to swim so naturally. Their
programme is fast and dynamic. We are impressed by their routine which is
amazing.
Team
Russia in action ©Andrea Masini / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
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