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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Russian pair Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina showed their dominance in duet synchronized swimming as they won the gold in 194.9910 points.
The Olympic and world champions collected 98.5333 on Tuesday's free routine and scored 96.4577 in technical routine Monday, keeping Russia's streak of gold medals in this event since the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
China's Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan performed a well-executed free routine and got second highest score of 97.0000. They took the silver in 192.3688, adding the technical routine point. China took the bronze medal at the London Games.
Japanese Yukiko Inui and Risako Mitsui ranked third with 188.0547.
Ukraine ranked fourth and London Olympic runner-up Spain only finished fifth.
slid to fifth place after the technical routine, but with another well-executed free routine they could easily put themselves back in podium position in the final.
