Artistic swimming: Japan wins 1st world pair gold in 22 years

Mashiro Yasunaga and Moe Higa won the gold medal in artistic swimming's duet technical routine at the world aquatics championships Sunday, making them the first Japanese pair to win a world title in 22 years.Yasunaga, 24, and Higa, 15, scored 273.9500 points, 10.9166 ahead of second-place Italians Linda Cerruti and Lucrezia Ruggiero, in the final at Marine Messe Fukuoka.The Japanese pair staged a dramatic rebound after barely reaching the final with a 12th-place showing in Friday's preliminary round."Half surprised, half happy," Yasunaga said. "We got lucky as well. We'd like to have this r…READ FULL ARTICLE