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Solo Free Final Highlights Day Six at FINA World Championships
By Taylor Payne // U.S. Synchronized Swimming // March 23, 2007
Melbourne, Australia – The 2007 FINA World Championships continued today featuring the solo free final. The meet held in Melbourne, Australia, runs through March 24 and features the solo, duet, team and combination events in the elite international competition.
Christina Jones represented the United States with a fifth place finish after posting a mark of 95.666. France's Virginie Dedieu came out of retirement to claim her third solo title with a near-perfect 99.500. Russia's Natalia Ischenko (98.500) took silver while Spain's Gemma Mengual Civil (98.000) and Japan's Saho Harada (96.667) followed.
"I was trying to better myself and to do better than in the preliminaries," Jones stated after her performance. "I wanted to demonstrate my artistic abilities, and it was a story (the routine) that I made up myself."
The duet free final will take place Friday, March 23 and the team free final will wrap up the Championships on Saturday, March 24.
Earlier in the week, Team USA claimed the bronze medal in the free combination routine final. The combo always proves to be a fan-favorite as it incorporates five different routines into one seven-minute program.
World Championship Sports Network (WCSN) will feature same day on demand web casts of all finals events on www.wcsn.com.
The U.S. National Team consists of Brooke Abel (Fallbrook, Calif.), Janet Culp (Littleton, Colo.), Jennie Culp (Littleton, Colo.), Kate Hooven (Pleasanton, Calif.), Christina Jones (Fremont, Calif.), Becky Kim (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Meghan Kinney, (Mission Viejo, Calif.) Andrea Nott (San Jose, Calif.), Annabelle Orme (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Jillian Penner (Seattle, Wash.), Kim Probst (Troy, N.Y.) and Layla Smith (Boulder, Colo.).
Check www.usasynchro.org and www.melbourne2007.com.au/ daily for results and quotes from Team USA. For more information, contact Taylor Payne at taylor@usasynchro.org or (317) 507-3410.
United States Synchronized Swimming (USSS) serves as the National Governing Body for the sport of synchronized swimming, appointed as such by the United States Olympic Committee. USSS is a membership-based and non-for-profit organization which services the sport from the grass roots level to the National Team. The mission statement of USSS is "to provide leadership and resources for the promotion and growth of synchronized swimming, to achieve competitive excellence at all levels and to develop broad based participation."
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