Sports writing (EFE)
Spain was behind Japan and ahead of China.
García and González, who were the best in the preliminary, had to cede the gold to the pair of Japanese brothers Tomoka and Yotaro Sato, who were at a higher level and scored 255.5066 points to the 248.0499 of the Spanish.
The Chinese duo with Wentao Chen and Haoyu Shi completed the podium with 247.30333, in a high-level final, despite the absence of the Italian duo, absent in Fukuoka due to an injury to Giorgio Minisini, surely the best current artistic swimmer.
The Catalans did not suffer any penalties, neither in the preliminary nor in the final, and swam with conviction and a lot of energy an electronic version of Vivaldi’s ‘El invierno’, choreographed by Anna Vega and Gemma Mengual.