Shortman and Thorpe win historic artistic swimming medal

Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe won Great Britain's first ever Olympic medal in artistic swimming - performing an exquisite free routine to take silver in the duet.

The childhood friends, whose mothers also used to compete as a pair in the sport, performed to a theme of Rising Phoenix to score 294.5085 - for a combined total of 558.5367.

China's Liuyi Wang and Qianyi Wang took gold and the Netherlands' Bregje de Brouwer and Noortje de Brouwer won bronze.

Shortman and Thorpe, who are two-time World Championship medallists, had sat fourth after Friday's Big Ben-themed technical routine before delivering a high-energy free routine.

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