World Cup Finals Best for Aussie Artistic Swimmers

The Australian Technical Team produced the best ever performance by an Australian group at a World Cup Finals overnight in Budapest.

JULY 6, 2024.

Australia’s Paris-bound Artistic Swimming team have achieved the best result in a World Cup Finals, with the Technical Team placing fourth in Budapest. The score of 234.8054 was an improvement on the previous best 229.1117 from April this year at the World Cup event in Beijing.

The group of Rayna Buckle, Georgie Courage-Gardiner, Raphaelle Gauthier, Kiera Gazzard, Margo Joseph-Kuo, Anastasia Kusmawan, Zoe Poulis and Milena Waldmann are a relatively young group, with an average age of 20 years old, including half of whom are still teenagers. The entire Australian Artistic Swimming program has seen improvement across the entire squad in recent times, including their first ever World Cup medals earlier this year.

Rayna and Kiera also finished 15th in the Tech Duet event, with Natalie Caloiero and Pam Kurosawa 16th.

The Finals continue on Saturday night Australian time with the Duet Free and Team Acrobatic, in which the Aussies will also have competitors.

Image: Artistic Swimming Australia/World Aquatics