Artistic swimming at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |
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Venue | Paris Aquatic Centre |
Dates | 5–10 August 2024 |
No. of events | 2 (1 women, 1 mixed) |
Competitors | 96 from 18 nations |
Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |
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Qualification | |
Duet | women |
Team | open |
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 medal events, namely the women's duet and the mixed team.
Several significant changes were instituted in the artistic swimming program for Paris 2024 to reinforce the Games-wide effort to achieve gender equality and vast diversity among the nations in the qualifying process. On 7 October 2022, World Aquatics (then FINA) favored nearly 99 percent of the votes to amend the artistic swimming rules between 2022 and 2025, such as the composition of an eight-member mixed team (previously a women's team event) with a maximum number of two males in the team.[3][4] However, no men were selected to compete.
This was also the first time since 2000 that a team other than Russia won the gold in either discipline, as Russia was banned from the 2024 Olympics due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5]