The ‘Mexican Mermaids’ won the Final in acrobatic mode to reach 251.7867 points, surpassing Japan
The ‘Mexican Mermaids’ of artistic swimming conquered their second gold medal during the World Cup of the specialty held in Paris, the same venue where the 2024 Olympic Games will be held in a few months.
The flag of Mexico was placed at the top of the podium in Paris after the ‘Mexican Mermaids’ They will reach 251.7867 points, thus defeating the representatives of Japan and the United States.
Regina Alferez, Nuria Diosdado, Itzamary González, Glenda Esthefanía Inzunda, Joan Jiménez, Luisa Rodríguez, Jessica Sobrino and Pamela Toscano make up the Mexican team that is currently in Paris.
Mexico managed to beat Japan, which obtained the silver medal with 248.5234 points, while the representatives of the United States stayed at 243.9366 points.
The team of artistic swimming of Mexico She establishes herself as one of the candidates for the next summer event, where they aspire to achieve their first medal in said discipline.
On Friday the artistic swimming team achieved its first gold medal in technique by swimming to the rhythm of ‘We will rock you’ and ‘Don’t stop me now’ and placing above Spain and China.
Nuria Diosdado celebrated on her account instagram the medal they achieved on Friday with a message: “Good afternoon Mexico! We debut the Olympic pool with gold medal in technical equipment. Singing the national anthem here was amazing. Thank you to those who made our participation here possible.”
MEDAL IN CANADA
For their part, the couple made up of Juan Celaya and Jahir Ocampo also had another success for Mexican sport by climbing to the top of the podium during the Canada Cup of Diving 2024 on a 3-meter springboard.
The Mexican couple achieved 376.50 points, beating South Korea with Woo and Kang, who added 363.06 points and Abramovicz and Braitenbach, who made up the Canadian couple.
Juan Celaya achieved his second medal in the event held in Canada by finishing in third position in the three-meter springboard.
