Lee Ri-young and Heo Yun-seo, Artistic World Cup Duet Free 6th place, Technical 7th Place
Received a high score in a competition held like a ‘mock test’ ahead of the Paris Olympics.
Lee Ri-young (23, Busan Swimming Federation) and Heo Yun-seo (18, Sungkyunkwan University) took a mock exam in preparation for the Paris Olympics.
Lee Ri-young and Heo Yun-seo received 217.1417 points (art score 74.0500 points + performance score 143.0917 points) in the duet free at the 2024 International Swimming Federation Artistic Swimming World Cup 2nd competition held at the Paris Aquatic Center in Paris, France on the 4th, ranking 6th out of 27 teams. 토토사이트 순위
In the duet technical held on the 3rd local time, the two ranked 7th out of 30 teams with 227.7783 points (art score 82.6500 points + performance score 145.1283 points).
Lee Ri-young and Heo Yun-seo took 10th place in the duet free at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships last February with 213.5979 points (art score 77.7000 points + performance score 135.8979 points), and also received 204.5667 points in duet technical (art score 89.5000 points + performance score 115.0667 points) ranked 10th.
In the second round of the Paris World Cup, which was held like a mock exam for the Paris Olympics, both the free and technical events received higher scores than the previous World Championships.
Lee Ri-young and Heo Yun-seo entered the top 10 in both the duet technical and free at the 2024 Doha World Championships, earning a spot at the Paris Olympics.
It has been 12 years since the sisters Park Hyun-sun and Park Hyun-ha at the 2012 London Games that Korean athletes have appeared on the Olympic stage in artistic swimming.
Lee Ri-young and Heo Yoon-seo are participating in the Olympics for the fifth time, following Seoul in 1988 (Kim Mi-jin-Ha Soo-kyung), 2000 Sydney (Yunami-Jang Yun-kyung), 2004 Athens (Yu Nami-Kim Seong-eun), and 2012 London (Park Hyun-sun-Park Hyun-ha).
It was recorded as a Korean duet.
Lee Ri-young and Heo Yun-seo are expected to enter the top 10 in the Paris Olympics artistic swimming duet, in which 18 teams will participate.
In the Olympics, rankings are determined by adding up free and technical scores.
In the duet at the 2nd Paris World Cup, where many world-class athletes participated, the two confirmed their ‘possibility of entering the top 10 in the Olympics’.
Sisters Anna Alexandri and Irene Alexandri (Austria) won the duet free competition in the second round of this World Cup with 265.9646 points.
