Shortman and Thorpe win historic artistic swimming medal

Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe won Great Britain's first ever Olympic badge successful creator swimming - performing an exquisite free regular to return metallic successful nan duet.

The puerility friends, whose mothers besides utilized to compete arsenic a brace successful nan sport, performed to a taxable of Rising Phoenix to people 294.5085 - for a mixed full of 558.5367.

China's Liuyi Wang and Qianyi Wang took golden and nan Netherlands' Bregje de Brouwer and Noortje de Brouwer won bronze.

Shortman and Thorpe, who are two-time World Championship medallists, had sat 4th aft Friday's Big Ben-themed method regular earlier delivering a high-energy free routine.

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