World synchronized swimming, Minisini and Ruggiero gold in the mixed technique

The Romans Giorgio Minisini, 26, and Lucrezia Ruggiero, 22, win the gold medal at the world championships in technical mixed synchronized swimming. In the final they confirm the first position of Saturday’s elimination (88.5734) and also improve the score by winning with 89.2685 points, of which 27.3 for the execution, 27.1 for the artistic impression and 34.8685 for the elements. They seem to dance on the water. They move like butterflies on the notes of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem, the sacred composition of 1800 that the author dedicated to Alessandro Manzoni with whom he shared the Risorgimento values ​​of freedom and justice that led to the unification of Italy. Tribute to the history of our country and to the recovery and return to normalcy. Both registered with Aurelia Nuoto and Fiamme Oro and trained by the technical director of the national team Patrizia Giallombardo, for Minisini it is the second world champion success after the one obtained in the Hungarian capital together with the former captain of the national team Manila Flamini, for Ruggiero it is the first international medal at the Japan is second behind them with a completely new couple compared to the one that won bronze in South Korea, made up of brothers Tomoka and Yotaro Sato, 21 and 18 years old to be turned respectively on 22 and 10 August, who total 86.5939 (in Gwangju there were Abe Atsushi and Adachi Yumi) and the Chinese Shi Haoyu and Zhang Yiyao third, who had been fifth in 2019, with 86.4425.