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Beijing: Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova share the same first name, age, height, weight and hometown.
The Russian synchronised swimmers also now share duet gold medals in two straight Olympics.
Performing a perfect free routine to the 'Peer Gynt Suite' before a near capacity crowd at the Water Cube yesterday, Davydova and Ermakova won with a combined 99.251 points. The pair received all perfect 10s for technical merit. Gemma Mengual and Andrea Fuentes of Spain took the silver medal with 98.334 points and Saho Harada and Emiko Suzuki of Japan took the bronze with 97.167. Twin sisters Jiang Tingting and Jiang Wenwen of China settled for fourth with 96.334.
The final results were determined by the sum of the free routine final score and the technical routine score from Monday's preliminary.
The American pair of Christina Jones and Andrea Nott finished fifth.
Wearing gold-backed suits to fit their golden expectations, the Anastasias matched the high flute notes of Edvard Grieg's music with twirls and spins of sheer beauty.
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