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Olga Brusnikina, three-time Olympic champion in the synchronised swimming event, sat down for an interview with a sports reporter of the Press Office of the Kazan 2015 Organising Committee. She shared her impression of competitions and talked about the mixed duet synchronised swimming event and a remarkable comeback of Natalia Ishchenko.

The title holders and medallists in the free combination event took questions from journalists during a post-event press conference at the FINA World Championships in Kazan.

The Russian national synchronised swimming team defended its title in the free combination event at the FINA World Championships in Kazan. On the final day of the synchro swimming tournament, the hosts did not give their competitors a single chance by collecting the highest score, 98.3000.

Exhausted but happy, this was the state of the Russian synchronised swimmers who maintained their stranglehold on the world title in the team free routine event. The Prayer routine created to Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’s music, earned them impressive 98 points. The athletes from China came second, whereas the bronze went to the Japanese girls. At the press conference, the athletes exchanged smiles with each other and revealed not only the secrets of their performances, but shared their culinary tastes.

The Russian synchronised swimming team defended its reigning world champion title in the team free routine. The hosts earned 98.4667 points which came out as the best result in this event.

The free routine brought the Russian mixed duet gold with a result of 91.7333 points, and the fans of the 16th FINA World Championships - an idea of how synchronised swimming will be quite soon.

The day when mixed duets were for the first time ever presented to the audience at the 16th FINA World Championships was indeed a history-making day. Today mixed duets came together again to show men’s strength and women’s grace in the mixed duet free routine.

Today Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina secured gold for Russia in the women’s duet free routine.The Russian duet fell less than two points short of posting a perfect 100 score.