Spain’s Ona Carbonell won two silver medals at the 2017 World Championships Solo events, but was upset by Japan’s Yukiko Inui in the first leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series in Paris (FRA).
Inui, now 28, owns two Olympic bronze medals and six World Championships bronzes, all in Duet or Team events. But she out-pointed Carbonell in the Solo Technical event, 90.5294-90.4893 in the closest contest in the three days of events.
Inui went on to win the Solo Free as well; she and Megumu Yoshida won two silvers in the Duet Technical and Duet Free events to Ukrainian pairs. Summaries:
FINA Artistic Swimming World Series
Paris (FRA) ~ 1-3 March 2019
(Full results here)
Solo Technical: 1. Yukiko Inui (JPN), 90.5294; 2. Ona Carbonell (ESP), 90.4893; 3. Vasilina Khandoshka (BLR), 82.5783.
Solo Free: 1. Inui (JPN), 91.7667; 2. Marta Fiedina (UKR), 91.0000; 3. Eve Planeix (FRA), 84.9667.
Duet Technical: 1. Anastasiya Savchuk/Marta Fiedina (UKR), 90.7207; 2. Yukiko Inui/Megumu Yoshida (JPN), 90.6474; 3. Charlotte Tremble/Laura Tremble (FRA), 84.6237.
Duet Free: 1. Maryna Aleksiiva/Vladyslava Aleksiiva (UKR), 91.6333; 2. Yukiko Inui/Megumu Yoshida (JPN), 91.5333; 3. Ona Carbonell/Sara Saldana (ESP), 89.7667.
Team Technical: 1. Ukraine, 90.7889; 2. France, 84.7119; 3. Israel, 81.2155.
Team Free: 1. France, 86.2333; 2. Brazil, 83,8000; 3. Israel, 81.0000.
Team Highlights: 1. Spain, 89.9667; 2. France, 85.7000; 3. Israel, 81.7667.
Team Free Combination: 1. Brazil, 83.4333; 2. Great Britain, 81.6667; 3. Israel,81.2333.
Mixed Duet Technical: 1. Yumi Adachi/Atsushi Abe (JPN), 85.8529; 2. Emma Garcia/Pau Ribes (ESP), 82.4202; 3. Giovana Stephan/Renan Souza (BRA), 76.8835.
Mixed Duet Free: 1. Adachi/Abe (JPN), 87.4667; 2. Berta Ferreras/Pau Ribes (ESP), 83.9667; 3. Stephan/Souza (BRA), 78.6333.
