Dancing on water
Spray flies around the body of a competitor as Britain's team performs in a synchronised swimming final at the world championships in Barcelona.
Reuters photographer Albert Gea documented the teams competing in this acrobatic water sport, dominated this year by Russia's swimmers, who brought home all seven gold medals.
The first gold medallist, Russia's Svetlana Romashina, contorts backward in a solo performance at the preliminaries.
Canadian soloist Chloe Isaac rises from the water.
Russia's Svetlana Romashina is poised to receive the first gold of the championship.
Canada's team perform their free combination routine.
Ukraine's team exhibit their technical prowess.
Egypt's swimmers form a coil of bodies during their practice session.
Spain's team perform upside-down.
France's team display their skills in the free combination routine preliminaries.
A Russian swimmer is seen suspended briefly above the pool in the team free routine final.
A Russian swimmer sails through the air.
Netherlands's team give an impassioned effort at the team free combination event.
The legs of duet winners Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina from Russia appear above the water.
The Netherlands team perform at the free routine combination final.
Mexican swimmers fly over the water.
The feet of Colombia's Estefania Piedrahita Alvarez and Monica Arango Estrada make contact in the preliminaries.
Greece's Evangelia Platanioti and Despoina Solomou perform in the synchronised swimming duet free final.
Russia's duet, Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina show their skills.
Alone in the pool, South Africa's Emma Manners-Wood performs in the preliminaries.
