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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 ...
This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in Artistic Swimming (synchronized ... (USA ) Anita Alvarez Jaime Czarkowski ... athletes in Olympic artistic swimming ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ]
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.
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.
The Women's duet event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center from 14 to 16 August. The preliminary phase consisted of a free routine, then a technical routine with required elements.