France’s Vanhee-Dedieu earns golden double at World Aquatics Youth Artistic Swimming Championships in Athens – and dedicates win to illustrious mom Virginie

France’s 14-year-old Macéo Vanhee-Dedieu, son of three-times world champion Virginie Dedieu, received his first international medals on the World Aquatics Youth Artistic Swimming Championships in Athens, incomes two golds and a bronze.

After victory within the males’s solo free occasion, Vanhee-Dedieu – who received the identical occasion within the Greek capital final yr on his worldwide debut on the  European Aquatics Youth Artistic Swimming Championships – instructed World Aquatics: “I dedicate this to my mum because I did this routine with her.”

The ‘warriors’ themed efficiency earned him an enormous 27.9505 factors lead over his nearest challenger, Xavier Wang of the United States.

His mom, with whom he carried out as a part of an illustration occasion on the Paris World Cup earlier this yr, received 17 main medals in her profession together with three world and two European golds and girls’s duet bronze on the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

When requested if he seemed as much as her as an athlete, Vanhee-Dedieu admitted that in fact he did “a little bit,” however emphasised that she was “my mum first and I love her for that.”

Vanhee-Dedieu additionally partnered Carla Pusta to gold within the combined duet free, the place Spain’s Olivia Bofill Morales and Abril Caballero completed fourth, and featured within the French line-up that completed third within the crew free occasion.

Pusta and Gabrielle Bassou, fourth within the girls’s duet free, additionally received crew free bronze, as did 12-year-old Jeanne Rougerie.

Italy’s Giulia Ottonello and Martina Pizio completed one place above the French pair within the girls’s duet free, and Turkiye’s Selin Hurmeric earned silver within the girls’s solo free.

“It was my dream to win a world medal and I am so happy I achieved it,” Hurmeric mentioned.

Silver additionally went to Spain within the combined crew free mixture.

France lifted the general Team Trophy forward of China and the United States of America.

The most profitable crew when it comes to medals had been the impartial athletes.

Aleksandra Pishchikova was their stand-out performer, successful gold within the girls’s solo free and duet free occasions, partnering Varvara Babashova within the latter.

Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics