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Artistic swimming (formerly called synchronized swimming) competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, ran between 5 and 10 August at the Paris Aquatic Centre. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , the competition featured fewer than 100 athletes, with a total of 96 athletes competing in two ...
The first Olympic demonstration of synchronized swimming was at the 1952 Olympic Games, where the Helsinki officials welcomed Katherine Curtis and lit a torch in her honor. Curtis died in 1980, but synchronised swimming did not become an official Olympic sport until the 1984 Summer Olympic Games . [ 28 ]
Artistic swimming (known as synchronised swimming until 2017) has been an event at the Summer Olympics since the 1984 Games. The current Olympic program consists of a Women's Duet event and a Mixed Team event. In the Women's Duet, pairs complete two routines, the Duet Technical routine and Duet Free routine, with medals awarded on cumulative ...
Synchronized swimming competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were held from Sunday 5 August to Friday 10 August, at the London Aquatics Centre. [1] Two medal events were included in the programme — women's duet and women's team — with 100 athletes participating.
Artistic swimming was long referred to as synchronized swimming until after the 2016 Rio Olympics, when the international governing body, World Aquatics, rebranded the name to artistic swimming in ...
Synchronized swimming was introduced to the Olympic Games at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, with two events, both for women only. Former competitive swimmer and MGM film star Esther Williams served as commentator. The events were contested at the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium.
Anita Alvarez and Mariya Koroleva, representatives of the U.S. Olympic synchronized swimming team, recently spilled their beauty secrets to Vogue magazine.
Synchronized swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were staged from 15 to 20 August at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center. [1] A total of 104 athletes competed in two medal events, namely the women's duet and the women's team.