Britain’s Ranjuo Tomblin has created extra historical past with victory within the males’s tech solo occasion on the Inventive Swimming World Cup in Paris.
The 19-year-old, who grew to become GB’s first male artistic swimming European champion final 12 months, is now his nation’s first male World Cup medal winner.
Tomblin, who has stated he desires to alter the notion of the game, scored 214.3966 from the judges for his routine within the opening occasion of the season.
Eduard Kim of Kazakhstan took silver with 213.8167 whereas bronze went to Spain’s Jordi Caceres Iglesias who completed on 213.5992.
“I completely did not count on it, we simply got here right here to check our routines,” Tomblin stated.
“I am actually grateful to have the possibility to check our routines on the large competitions, so I am simply actually joyful and I am unable to actually consider this has occurred.”
The victory got here in the identical metropolis the place Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe gained duet silver final 12 months to assert Britain’s first Olympic medal within the sport and their efficiency has impressed Tomblin.
“Kate and Izzy are actually opening the door for us as a more recent era of athletes,” he added.
“They’ve made us realise that Nice Britain is definitely fairly good at this sport, and that has given us lots of confidence.
“Whenever you win medals, it is positively like, ‘oh look, take a look at what I am doing’ – and it actually exhibits what all of the arduous work is doing for us.”
