ARTISTIC SWIMMING AT THE PARIS 2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS

By: Aqualillies Posted On: January 31, 2024

A few facts about Artistic Swimming at the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics!

At the upcoming Paris 2024 Summer Olympics this year, male athletes will be allowed to compete in the sport for the very first time in Olympic history. The IOC made the decision in December 2022 for men to be eligible to be part of those teams, with a maximum of two per team. A total of ten teams will compete in Paris, and each team is made up of eight swimmers. Although it is not mandatory for the teams to include men, many countries will likely feature male swimmers. The ten teams at Paris 2024 will be representing these countries: Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United States.

“Males having such a prestigious opportunity to compete in the Olympic Games in a sport only known to women is showing the growth and evolution from the years of fighting for this chance. This is a milestone and can ignite a flame into many young men who watch the games this summer. It’s the best feeling to represent my country at the highest level in our sport. It’s a huge honor and I am very proud to say I am an artistic swimmer for the USA!”, says Kenny Gaudet, an athlete for Team USA and a member of our male Aquawillies team.  “Ultimately I would love to swim at the Olympics and I am personally shooting for the LA 2028 games here in my very own country the USA!”.

Artistic Swimming has been an Olympic discipline at every Summer Olympics since the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games. There are two artistic swimming event categories: the Team events and the Duet events. Athletes will compete in the technical and free events in Duet, and in the technical, free, and acrobatic events in Team. The combined scores of all two, or three, routines will determine the medalists in each event. 

There’s a new type of Team event. At Paris 2024, the team event will have three events in the Team events category: the two already included in the Olympic program (technical and free) and a third new event, the acrobatic routine, where the team needs to perform “complex structures, airborne movements and a wide diversity of acrobatic action combinations,” explains World Aquatics (formerly FINA).

The artistic swimming events at Paris 2024 will take place between the 5th and the 10th of August 2024! We hope you tune in for the excitement!

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