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Evangelia Plataniotis on top of the world and the Greek flag on the highest mast. The 29-year-old athlete made history, giving Greece its first gold medal in artistic swimming at the world championship level.
Platanioti entered the solo final with the best performance and there she performed her “Black Crow” program even better.
She anxiously awaited her score and burst into tears when she heard she was the world champion.
With 272.9633 points, she left behind Canada’s Simono and China’s Su and was justifiably dethroned shortly after the men’s national pole, preparing for her own battle in Doha.