Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Artistic swimming
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueParis Aquatic Centre
Dates5–10 August 2024
No. of events2 (1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors96 from 18 nations
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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 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]

  1. ^ "Paris 2024 – Artistic Swimming". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 28 July 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  2. ^ Martin, Marta; Fava, Giselle (14 September 2022). "How to qualify for artistic swimming at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 November 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  3. ^ Rowbottom, Mike (7 October 2022). "Men and women set to compete together in artistic swimming group events at Paris 2024". Inside the Games. Archived from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  4. ^ "World Aquatics updates and clarification on the Paris 2024 Rules and Qualification" (Press release). FINA. 22 December 2022. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  5. ^ "The Surprising History of Synchronized Swimming in the Olympics". 6 August 2024. Archived from the original on 7 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.

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