Dennis González culminates another historic day for the Spanish artist with a gold

The first to open the gold box was Fernando Díaz del Río (technical only), it was filled out by the Spanish team in a technical routine and finished off, for the moment, by Dennis González, with his world title in the free solo, which he signed , and by far, the best moment of Spanish artistic swimming in its history.

If until this World Cup, Spain had achieved a gold medal in its entire history (Team Free Combo in 2009), in three days it goes to gold, to the World Championship, daily in a demonstration of the team's progress, with the incorporation of men to discipline, and the use of the new regulations.

And history repeated itself this Wednesday with Dennis. The 19-year-old Catalan reached the final with the fourth best grade, but in the final he shattered all records in a competition in which, without penalties, he scored 193.0334 points and beat Colombian Gustavo Sánchez (189.9625 ), who made history for his country with silver, and the American Kenneth Gaudet, the disciple of Bill May, who was bronze with 179.5562, after suffering a penalty.

Dennis González, one of the twenty-few men with a federation license in Spain (2,000 women's licenses) in artistic swimming, had aimed high since the beginning and expectations skyrocketed last year, when he was double champion at the Junior World Championships in Quebec (Canada). world, in solo technical and free.

In Fukuoka, he had already won silver in the mixed duo, along with Emma García, but he was convinced that he could still give more, especially after seeing how his training partner, Fernando Díaz del Río, became champion on Monday world in technical only.

Dennis jumped into the Fukuoka Convention Center pool ahead of schedule. The swimmer who preceded him in starting order, the Kazakh Eduard Kim, had withdrawn at the last minute, but it did not affect him at all. Concentrated, knowing at all times what he had to do, mentally counting the steps, reviewing the movements in his head, Dennis accurately interpreted Jvke's composition 'Golden Hour'.

He was, by far, the best in scoring elements and was surpassed, albeit minimally, by the Colombian in artistic impression, so in the end he prevailed with a three-point difference over Sánchez, who embroidered an original interpretation of 'The Passion of the Christ '.

Dennis, who began in the world of art due to the influence of his mother -ex-swimmer and current coach- and had Pau Ribes as a reference, developed in the shadow of Anna Tarrés at Kallipolis. Now at the CAR in Sant Cugat and with Anna Vega as a technician, it has absolutely taken off.

Dennis González's gold is the demonstration of the moment of artistic swimming in Spain, who has won a medal in the six finals in which he has participated, in many cases improving the performances of the preliminary.

This is the sixth medal for the Spanish team, after the gold in the technical team and that of Fernando Díaz del Soto (technical only), the mixed technical duo silver (Emma García and Dennis González), and the bronzes of Iris Tió (technical only). ) and in the technical duo (Alisa Ozhogina and Iris Tió).