After their EM medal premiere in Budapest in 2021 with two bronze medals and two third places in June at the World Championships in Budapest, they climbed a step higher in Rome on Saturday. The duet secured bronze with a personal best score of 93.0000 points, gold went to the Ukrainian favorites Maryna Aleksijwa/Vladyslawa Aleksijwa (94.7333).
24 hours after her triplet sister Vasiliki Alexandri had won a European Championship medal for the first time in the technical freestyle, the nerves of the Olympic seventh from the previous year were holding up. Anna-Maria and Eirini-Marina Alexandri presented their “Bose Puppet” freestyle one last time, and next season new programs will be rehearsed, especially for the 2024 Paris Games. On Monday, the two of them have another excellent chance of a medal in the technical free program, and on Sunday Vasiliki Alexandri will also be trying for her second place on the European Championships podium in the free program.
In contrast to the continental title fights in 2021, the dominant Russians are not there, as at the World Cup, due to Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, which has been going on since February. The ninth EM medal for Austrian synchronized swimmers is next to five in bronze and the third in silver. Alexandra Worisch got hold of the first two solos in 1981 in Split and 1982 in Strasbourg. The only European or World Championship gold medal in synchronized swimming for red-white-red was for the duet Worisch/Eva-Maria Edinger in Sofia in 1985.
Source: Nachrichten
