HANGZHOU, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) — China gained the staff gold medal in inventive swimming after rating first within the staff free routine on Sunday. The hosts grabbed each the 2 inventive swimming gold as in addition they claimed duet title on Saturday.
China claimed the staff gold with a mixed rating of 868.9676 after main the free routine with 341.4875. Japan scored a complete of 831.2535 to take the silver. Kazakhstan got here third with a distant 663.7417.
“We are happy to win the gold medal at home and qualify for the Paris Games,” stated swimmer Feng Yu. “But we still have a lot of things to improve.”
This is the primary Asian Games the place male inventive swimmers are allowed to compete. Teams can have as much as two male members, although there are solely two in complete competing in Hangzhou: China’s Shi Haoyu and Thailand’s Kantinan Adisaisiributr. Shi, combined duet free world champion on the Fukuoka worlds, took half within the acrobatic routine on Friday which China additionally got here first.
“Shi has joined the team for several months and we made good cooperation. We can trust him and he also gave us confidence,” Feng added.
Male members made their debut within the occasion on the 2015 FINA World Championships, and can be competing on the Olympics for the primary time in Paris subsequent 12 months.
With the staff and duet gold on the Asiad, China has earned the inventive swimming tickets for the Paris Games.
China’s twin sisters Wang Qianyi and Wang Liuyi excelled to win the duet gold medal on Saturday. Their jungle-themed efficiency despatched them to the highest of the rostrum, cementing the fifth duet gold in a row for China on the Asian Games.
They used inventive leg kicks and spectacular throws in each their technical and free routines, each of which displayed the very best levels of problem in comparison with different rivals.
They completed the competitors with a mixed rating of 526.8620, greater than 37 factors forward of silver medalists Mashiro Yasunaga and Moe Higa of Japan. Kazakhstan’s Arina Pushkina and Yasmin Tuyakova took the bronze with a complete of 418.6987.
“We have an advantage in that we look alike, and we move in similar ways because we grew up together,” stated Wang Qianyi. “My goal is to stand on the Olympic stage with my sister.”