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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 ...
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 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 ...
Curtis soon founded co-ed synchronized swimming clubs at two different teaching colleges in Chicago, and when the two groups held a synchro swim-off in 1939, it marked the sport’s first competition.
This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in Artistic Swimming (synchronized swimming). Current Olympic program. Women's Duet. Games Gold Silver Bronze ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -With a high-powered, tightly-swum routine, Svetlana Romashina claimed a seventh Olympic gold medal with her Russian team as they won the synchronised swimming final on Saturday to ...
Artistic swimming (formerly synchronised swimming) competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan featured a total of 104 athletes competing in two medal events, namely the women's duet and the women's team.