The Russian team landed the team free title, with gold medals awarded to a nine-strong outfit — Anastasia Arkhipovskaia, Anastasia Bayandina, Daria Bayandina, Marina Goliadkina, Veronika Kalinina, Polina Komar, Maria Shurochkina, Darina Valitova and Mikhaela Kalancha.

Yet it was not all plain sailing for a weary team that also suffered from problems with the pool conditions at the Scotstoun Sports Campus.

“All year we have worked so much and I feel exhausted,” said Shurochkina after her team’s athletic routine.

“Maybe because this is the end of the year and we have a vacation coming closer and closer, our energy level dips.

On the conditions in the pool, she said: “Do you see me? I have these red eyes. The conditions are awful because of the chlorine.”

Her team mate Komar added: “It was too much chlorine. Much more than yesterday. I could not see the team, all I could see was white.”

Despite these concerns, the Russian team still won convincingly, their routine gaining them 97.0333 points, well clear of second-placed Ukraine on 94.6000 and Italy on 92.2333.