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Xinhua News Agency, Budapest, June 21 news, on the 21st, in the 19th World Swimming Championships Synchronized Swimming Group Technical Optional Final, the Chinese team won the championship with 94.7202 points, winning the gold medal of the World Championships for the first time. Japan and Italy won the gold medal. 1st and 3rd runner-up.

The lineup sent by the Chinese team includes 8 players, Chang Hao, Feng Yu, Wang Ciyue, Wang Liuyi, Wang Qianyi, Xiang Yingxuan, Xiao Yanning and Zhang Yayi. Among them, twin sisters Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi won the championship in the double technical optional project before, and they participated in the collective technical optional project on the 21st. Before the finals, the two-person free-choice preliminaries were just completed with the first place result.The Chinese team ranked first with 94.0039 points in the collective technical self-selected preliminaries. In the final, the Chinese team played in seventh place among the 12 teams. At the beginning, they blew up the audience with a very difficult water toss. The theme of the game was chasing dreams.

The whole set of actions can be called a perfect visual feast. With “I Love You China” as the background music, it shows strong Chinese characteristics and Chinese elements in the world arena, perfectly interpreting Chinese culture. Team Japan and Italy scored 92.2261 and 91.0191 respectively.Zhang Xiaohuan, head of the coaching team of China Huayou Team, said: “Today (winning) the collective gold medal is a historic moment. At the 2017 World Championships, we won the championship in the non-Olympic team event, but in the Olympic team event we won the championship. Never won a gold medal before.”

“This is a historic breakthrough made by the Chinese Huayou Team in the Olympic collective event since its establishment in 1983.”

“Our opponent is ourselves. I ask the players to be themselves and do their best. Today we show the results of hard training in the most difficult seven months of the transition between new and old, which is worthy of the efforts of the past period.”

“Today’s action shows the patriotic feelings of the girls, and we hand in a satisfactory answer to the motherland.”