What a pity our sport is only talked about or going viral when something bad happens. And not for its athleticism, artistry, beauty, daring, and creativity.
Anita Alvarez (USA) is a Superhero. She probably just experienced the most intense rollercoaster of emotion of her life, and turned it around to again leave her heart out in the pool in free solo. A giant 88.1332 for her, new career-high.
And just like that, the duet events are already done and dusted at the
#Olympics
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Ukraine joined the medalist club, and became the eighth country to win an Olympic medal in
#ArtisticSwimming
🤩. The recap is available on the website:
Only one week to go until the start of the artistic swimming events in Tokyo! The Olympic Games are a perfect time for the sport to gain some new fans and grow the community. So if you're new around here, I hope, this helps 😀!
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Spain had a good swim with their flamenco/Japanese sign language choreography. At the end, they sign "thank you Tokyo (organization) for these Olympics." 90.3780... is a bit low in my opinion.
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Fun fact, more than half of Mexico's team has been part of the senior national team for around 10 years or more.
Regina Alférez - first call-up in 2015
Nuria Diosdado - 2006
Joana Jiménez - 2011
Samantha Rodríguez - 2013
Jessica Sobrino - 2013
Longevity in sports for the win 👏
Maria Shurochkina was very brave in her own way. She has the biggest social media following of the entire team.I hope many realize what a huge deal this is for Russian athletes to express themselves like this. Her sister is also one of the most popular singer ever in the country.
The U.S. has named its official duet for the 2020 season that will try to qualify the country to the Olympics. Congratulations to Anita Alvarez and Lindi Schroeder!
I have no words. Reading updates from Ukrainian swimmers barely getting sleep because of explosions, or furtive messages from judges hiding in bomb shelters in Kharkov or Kiyv, has been horrifying. May they all stay safe 🙏🏻💙💛
Spain has two new choreographies for this new season. Its new tech routine includes Japanese sign language, while its new free... 👀 We sat down with HC Mayuko Fujiki and swimmers Meritxell Mas, Paula Ramírez and Blanca Toledano to talk about it all:
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Duet Medalists:
🥇 ROC - Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Svetlana Romashina 195.9079
🥈 CHN– Huang Xuechen, Sun Wenyan 192.4499
🥉 UKR- Marta Fiedina, Anastasia Savchuk 189.4620
This is Ukraine's first medal at the
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Wow terrific mixed duet from Great Britain at Jr. Europeans! Clean, precise, smooth elements. It’s a 🥉and only 0.4254 behind Italy. Ranjuo Tomblin has improved so much since last year! Looking forward to the free mixed duet routine and his solo!
11 athletes are heading off to Malta today to compete in the Junior Europeans . We will be competing in the Tech and Free team , Duet, Solo and Mixed duet ... follow us to watch our journey 🇬🇧💪🏻🍀
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Men are now eligible to compete at the Olympic Games in artistic swimming starting in 2024!
We asked Giorgio Minisini 🇮🇹, Quentin Rakotomalala 🇫🇷, Kenny Gaudet 🇺🇸, Ivan Martinovic 🇷🇸 and Renaud Barral 🇧🇪 what this news meant to them.
One week until the Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 🤩🎉 The general preview is up on the website, first checking-in with the qualification process before diving into the team and duet events. Buckle up, it's going to be crazy.
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On February 18, Mexican senior national team member and two-time Pan American silver medalist Teresa Alonso García posted a video to disclose allegations of emotional and verbal abuse by the head coach. Since, five more have spoken up. Full story below:
Most of you might have been waiting for the Montpellier meet recap. Maybe it will come later, maybe not. First, I needed to get a few things off my chest.
OPINION: Artistic Swimming Is Losing Its Essence
Artistic swimming is getting a major makeover and there is a lot to learn. New scoring system, new elements and structuring of routines, new figures, new time limits, new events, new, new, new! Let’s dive into some of the main changes ⤵️
Pan American Games - Team
🥇 Mexico - 786.2546
🥈 USA - 785.5908
🥉 Canada - 662.0521
What a finish 👏🔥 Mexico qualifies a team to the Olympics for the first time since 1996! And wins a second historical gold! Incredible and thrilling final where all teams had fantastic swims.
To say the Olympic Qualification Tournament was intense is an understatement. It was a difficult task to put into words everything that unfolded, and all the emotions felt. Let's start by recapping the team competition:
WOW, wow, WOW 🤩 Japan's new free team just blew my mind. The hybrids are absolutely insane. The difficulty! The routine is so well done. It ended and I couldn't believe 4 minutes had gone by. I love where Nakajima is taking this team. Also, where was this for the Olympics?!
Wrong music at the start for ROC. OF COURSE, something always happens to them doesn't it? 🤪 Absolutely did not affect them anyways. Incredible swim, nothing much to say. 97.9000!
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The field for the 2024 Olympic Games is official 🤩
Teams (10): AUS, CAN, CHN, EGY, ESP, FRA, ITA, JPN, MEX and USA
Duets (18): AUS, AUT, CAN, CHN, EGY, ESP, FRA, GBR, GRE, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, MEX, NED, NZL, UKR and USA
See you in Paris 🇫🇷🥖
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨
FINA announced today that the Acrobatic Routine was added to the Olympic Games programme as part of the team event for 2024.
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Pan American Games - Duet
🥇 MEX - Diosdado, Jimenez - 486.0208
🥈 USA - Field, Remati - 451.6759
🥉 BRA - Miccuci, Regly - 390.2437
First ever GOLD for Mexico at the Pan American Games in artistic swimming! The Mexican duet has also secured its place to the Paris Olympics!
Only two years ago, Giorgio Minisini and Edoardo Fanton were the only men to swim in solo at Italian nationals, and they were competing amongst all the women. Now, there is not only a separate men solo category, but 11 men and boys took part in it today and got to shine!
This is Kazakhstan’s first-ever medal at the senior World Championships! Kim has already made history for his country back in 2019, becoming World Youth Champion in mixed duet.
The Netherlands is another country that's improved so much this season. It hadn't been at the
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since 2008, but Bregje and Noortje de Brouwer not only made it, but they qualified to the final! 88.9000 is their PB! Coach Esther Jauma is crying.
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Egypt is so excited, all tearing up! Well-deserved. When I spoke to HC Anastasiya Chepak and team captain Nihal Saafan earlier this year, they said passing that 80-points mark was really what was driving them forward. They knew they could it. And they did!
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A first group of UKR artistic swimmers and coaches has made it out of Kharkiv and Ukraine through Lviv, and finally safely arrived to Budapest last night. The ITA federation has organized transport; the group is on its way to Ostia. They are expected to arrive tomorrow morning.
Artistic swimming at the Olympic Games is finally underway! 🇨🇳 absolutely dominated the technical team today, scoring 313.5538 to claim 1st place. Remember, the medals will be awarded after adding up the scores of the technical, free, and acrobatic team.
Recaps of all the OGQT craziness will come tomorrow and over the next few days. Needed some time to let everything settle, and gather my thoughts to add to stats and quotes. And also, to get home and decompress. What a week. Thank you for your patience 🙏🏻
Participating countries at Europeans: AUT, BLR, BUL, CRO, CZE, ESP, FIN, GBR, GER, GRE, HUN, ISR, ITA, LIE, LTU, NED, POL, POR, RUS, SMR, SRB, SUI, SVK, SWE, UKR.
Essentially everybody will be there but France and Turkey.
France and USA just had such strong swims in music training. Wow. Incredible energy from both. Greece has tremendous impression, but the acros are a bit fragile today. However, Greece always shows up for competition time. Oh my god it's going to be so good.
YAY! From the Greek athletes on Instagram, it looks like they are all in the Village now! It must mean they tested negative again and again since their arrival two days ago. What a relief it must be for them!
Barcelona !! 🤩🤩🤩
After three long weeks, the artistic swimming Olympic qualifiers have finally been rescheduled! Barcelona will host the competition in parallel with the World Series Super Final from June 10 - 13!
Negative PCR! Third bubble, here I come 🥳 I thought my travels were over for the season, but a last minute phone call later and I am now headed to Malta on Monday for the European Junior Championships! Very excited, and a bit nervous, to tackle a new role at this meet... 👀
The new rules were officially approved earlier this week during FINA’s Technical Congress!
Artistic swimming is getting a major makeover and many changes are coming
The full article is available on the website:
Svetlana Romashina wins a sixth Olympic gold, making her the most decorated artistic swimmer in Olympic history. Huang Xuechen also earns a sixth Olympic medal - she now has four silver and two bronze medals.
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The French squad is working with professional choreographer Mourad Merzouki for its new free team routine, which will be to the song "Mesdames" by Grand Corps Malade.
Also, artistic swimming featured in a major French news outlet is 🔥🔥🔥
Ukraine truly is admirable. Not only do the Ukrainians do everything, but they also always come up with new programs every season. Out of the eight routines they swam in Budapest, SEVEN were completely new choreographies. 4 new Olympic routines, 2 new solos, and 1 new Highlight.
Pau Ribes has announced his retirement from artistic swimming during a press conference on October 20.
Ribes, an eight-time European medalist in mixed duet for Spain, is a pioneer for men in artistic swimming in Spain and internationally.
With Mexico also securing a team spot to Paris, its duet automatically qualifies. The next available duet quota place thus now goes to USA, who won 🥈.
All teams and duets will have a final chance to qualify to the Olympics at the Doha World Championships in February.
The Junior category has been amended to 15 -19 years of age due to the pandemic and cancellation/postponement of all jr meets. So, all athletes who had originally lost their final year of eligibility in 2020 will get another one in 2021.
All I want in life before a meet are start lists and a link to live scoring 😢It's a sport, it's 2019, people would love to follow the competition like any normal one, you know. The Internet would set itself on fire if it didn't have any scores for a football or basketball game.
The artistic swimming qualification process for the 2024 Olympic Games is out! 10 teams and only 18 duets will compete in Paris.
More details on the qualification system ⤵️
Varvara Subbotina 🇷🇺has announced her retirement. A remarkable, once-in-a-blue-moon talent that we never got to fully see on the senior stage, with a career impacted by injuries, COVID-19, and the competition ban.
After two, here are the running totals for the team Olympic qualification:
USA 509.1633
Spain 495.8292
Japan 482.6221
Canada 475.4917
Italy 474.1684
Ukraine 450.0342
Israel 426.1934
Next step: qualify to the free team final. The preliminaries are on Thursday, 9:30am local.
European Games - Free Duet
🥇 AUT - Anna-Maria & Eirini Alexandri - 256.0335
🥈 UKR - Maryna & Vladyslava Aleksiiva - 232.8438
🥉 GBR - Kate Shortman, Isabelle Thorpe - 223.5084
Austria qualifies to the 2024 Olympic Games in duet!
REMINDER: No
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tomorrow, August 5. The team events start up again on Friday, August 6, with the technical team. Then free team is on Saturday, August 7. Both events at 7:30 pm local.
2022 World Championships - Highlight:
🥇UKR - 95.0333
🥈ITA - 92.2667
🥉EP - 91.9333
This is the same podium as in 2019. And that's a wrap 👏!
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Random training thoughts: Greece looks good, much improved on execution, interesting combo. Ukraine is astounding. The difficulty, the angles... to die for. I don’t see how they cannot medal in Tokyo. Spain’s duet will be Iris/Alisa tomorrow.
Ukraine’s Marta Fiedina is the only athlete to have swam in all eight events the nation entered. She leaves Budapest with four European titles, including Ukraine’s first ones in solo and highlight, and four silvers 💪🏻
I am not even done processing nor writing about Worlds but the entry lists for European Juniors are out! Many familiar names, and a lot of athletes going straight from Budapest to Alicante.
Are you excited for the team competition at the Olympics? 🤩🔥For the very first time, we will see 10 countries. It's shaping up to be an exciting showdown! So many new routines to look forward to, and some potential upsets...
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The new schedule for the Tokyo Olympics has been released:
[MON] Aug 2 - Free Duet Prelim
[TUE] Aug 3 - Technical Duet
[WED] Aug 4 - Free Duet Final
[FRI] Aug 6 - Technical Team
[SAT] Aug 7 - Free team
All events will start at 7:30 p.m. local.
What a debut for our junior mixed duet Rosie Rallings and Ranjuo Tomblin who scored a wonderful 72.7499 in the mixed duet technical finals. A brilliant start we can’t wait to see what they do next... 🇬🇧
The artistic swimming events at the Tokyo Olympic Games start in two weeks 🥳🤩!
Make sure to save this schedule so you don't miss any of the action! All times listed are Japanese Standard Time. To watch, check your local listing as coverage varies by country.
Spain is the World Junior Champion in free team with a 89.3000 🤩! Very close final until the end! What an incredible routine (choreography by Paula Klamburg) and a great swim! Lots of emotions from both athletes and coaches. A lot of up-and-coming talent for the country indeed.
Spain is first up. Darwin's Evolution Theory routine. Their short, deckwork pose before the final one is my favorite. So brilliant. Really delightful to watch in terms of artistic impression and creativity. Few mistakes, but great energy. 91.5333... Hm.
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Ona Carbonell 🇪🇸, three-time Olympian and 23-time World medalist, has announced her retirement from artistic swimming today in a press conference.
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China and Japan are astonishing. Watching China is basically a constant “how can they possibly do this?”
France tech team is quite daring and engrossing, with a super slow and intense part right in the middle. So refreshing.
World Championships - Free Solo (M)
🥇 ESP-Dennis Gonzalez Boneu - 193.0334
🥈COL-Gustavo Sanchez - 189.9625
🥉USA -Kenneth Gaudet - 179.5562
2x World Junior Champion Dennis Gonzalez Boneu is now the first World Champion in the free solo!
Historical medal for Colombia!
The GASP I just let out 😱🤯! ISRAEL makes history by having a boy swim as part of a team routine at a European Championship of ANY LEVEL! It has been possible for for so so so long and nobody ever took advantage of it. This is FANTASTIC!
It was a pleasure to chat with
@Andrea_holland
, who's quite literally the voice of synchro. We talked about her commentary career, what changes she'd like to see to improve our sport's coverage, as well as her early elite days and her comeback in masters!
The order of appearance in finals has been changed, per the World Aquatics Competition Regulations updated on January 1, 2024.
Now, the top 12 in the preliminaries will swim in reverse order in the finals. So No. 12 swims 1st, No. 11 swims 2, etc. And No.1 will swim 12.
Omg seriously?? Too many music problems at this competition... THE OLYMPICS. Music man should hide, both Tatiana Danchenko and now Valeria Mezhenina are angry.
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I also must note how fast last night was — a feeling shared, it seems, between media, broadcasters, and people watching at home. 10 teams in slightly over 60 mins, unheard of in two years. Perhaps... a bit too fast?
The technical team event went by so fast and yet, had many things happening to keep us on our toes.
Read up on what happened on day one of artistic swimming at the Olympic Games and hear from a few athletes 🔽
Markham World Cup - Acrobatic Team
🥇UKR 244.4958
🥈JPN 223.6875
🥉USA 204.9959
Japan was a huge highlight for me. Tremendous execution, fast-paced and entertaining choreo, incredible pool coverage, massive improvement on acros. Prob my fave routine of the whole meet.
The ultimate day of artistic swimming at the Paris Olympic Games was nothing short of exciting, with ultimately China, Great Britain and the Netherlands all making history in their own ways.
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