Iris Tió from Barcelona, Olympic bronze in Paris 2024 as a member of the Spanish team, won this Friday in the final of the free solo event of the Pontevedra World Cup, where set her personal best (268.7725) with a spectacular performance of Céline Dion’s ‘Hymne à l’amour’.
The current world champion, who will complete seven exercises in this fourth stop of the 2026 World Cup, did not disappoint at the Rías do Sur Sports Complex (Pontevedra). Signed a brilliant art print for beat the Italian Ginevra Marchetti (259.7876) and the Georgian Maria Alavidze (257.7213)second and third respectively.
The juniors Naia Álvarez, sixth classified, and Paula Marcipar, eleventh, They also shined in the first test of the day. Álvarez, with 232.3425, dominated the classification until the big favorites entered the scene. For its part, Marcipar reached close to 222 points (221.3188).
Later, the Spanish couple formed by Carla López and Eneko Sánchez starred in the great surprise of the mixed technical duo final after winning the silver medal after the British Isabelle Thorpe and Ranjuo Tomblinwho fulfilled the predictions with a resounding victory.
The young man from Sabadell Eneko Sánchez did not disappoint in his debut with the senior team. Together with Carla López, she performed a great exercise to finish with the third best score -123.1042- behind the champions and the Kazakh couple formed by Aiganym Saim and Artur Maidanov.
However, their artistic impression (87.7750) was far from that of the British couple and was even worse than that of the Italians Filippo Pelati and Lucrezia Ruggierowho surprisingly were left off the podium, completed by the Kazakhs Yasmina Islamova and Aldiyar Ramazanovwho narrowly beat their compatriots Aiganym Saim and Artur Maidanov.
The great dominators of this second test of the day were the British Isabelle Thorpe and Ranjuo Tomblin, who overcame the blow they had suffered in Paris, where they were left off the podium, with a spectacular exercise that allowed him to surpass 225 points (225.9034).