Following the conclusion of the
artistic swimming events at the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024, the
Olympic qualification pathway for the artistic swimming programme at the Paris
2024 Olympics has been finalised.
Two artistic swimming competitions
will feature on the Paris 2024 Olympics programme: Team and Duet. The artistic
swimming events will take place between 5-10 August in the Aquatics Centre, a
facility that will also host the diving and water polo competitions at the
Paris 2024 Olympics.
Ninety-six artistic swimmers are
expected to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympics. NOC quota positions account
for 88 of the qualification places and France as host nation was allocated
eight places.
Artistic Swimming Team Qualification
The artistic swimming Team event at
the Paris 2024 Olympics will feature 10 countries, with each team comprised of
a maximum of eight competing athletes and one reserve athlete.
Men will be eligible to compete in
artistic swimming for the first time in Olympic Games history, with a maximum
of two men per team allowed to compete in the artistic swimming Team
competition (AS 6.2.1).
Continental Championships/Host
Country
Five teams qualified for the artistic
swimming Team competition by being the highest-placed National Olympic
Committee (NOC) in the event designated as their Continental Championship or,
in the case of France, by being the host country of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Continent NOC Qualifying Event
Africa Egypt World Aquatics
Championships – Doha 2024
Americas Mexico Santiago
2023 Pan American Championships
Asia People’s
Republic of China 19th Asian Games
Hangzhou
Europe France Host country
Oceania Australia World
Aquatics Championships – Fukuoka 2023
World Aquatics Championships – Doha
2024
Five additional teams qualified for
the artistic swimming Team competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics by being the
five highest-placed NOCs from the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024 that
were not already qualified through the continental championships/host country criteria.
The five NOCs that qualified for the
artistic swimming Team event at the Paris 2024 Olympics through their team’s
combined point score in the Team Acrobatic, Team Technical and Team Free
routines at the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024 were (in order of
their combinedpoint ranking in Doha): United States, Spain, Japan, Italy and
Canada. Only the final results were considered in each of the three events.
Artistic Swimming Duet Qualification
Artistic swimming at the Paris 2024
Olympics will feature 18 duets with each NOC eligible to qualify a maximum of
one duet into the event.
The qualification pathway for the
Paris 2024 Olympics provided three chronological stages for an NOC to qualify
for the artistic swimming Duet competition.
Stage 1 | Artistic Swimming Duet
Qualification
The first stage was through artistic
swimming Team qualification. The 10 NOCs that qualified for the Team
competition (including the host country) automatically qualified one duet into
the Paris 2024 Olympics. The 10 NOCs qualifying via this method are (in
alphabetical order): Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
People’s Republic of China, Spain and the United States.
Stage 2 | Artistic Swimming Duet
Qualification
The second stage of artistic swimming
Duet qualification to the Paris 2024 Olympics involved up to five NOCs
qualifying through Continental Championships/Host Country criteria.
For the Americas, the Santiago 2023
Pan American Championships was the continental qualifier. For Asia, the 19th
Asian Games Hangzhou, for Oceania, the World Aquatics Championships – Fukuoka
2023, and for Europe, the 2023 European Championships in Poland.
For Africa, the World Aquatics
Championships – Doha 2024 served as the continental qualifying event. However,
Africa did not have an NOC participate in the artistic swimming Duet
competition in Doha.
The United States and Japan – the
continental championships artistic swimming Duet qualifiers from the Americas
and Asia – earned their NOC a position by the first stage of the criteria.
Therefore, this quota space is then reallocated to the next highest ranked Duet
at the World Championships 2024 Doha, Duet event -as referenced in Stage 3-.
NOCs from the following countries
qualified for the artistic swimming Duet competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics
through the second stage (in alphabetical order): Austria and New Zealand.
The NOC Continental Championships
quota positions for Africa, Americas and Asia were then allocated to Stage 3 of
qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Stage 3 | Artistic Swimming Duet
Qualification
The World Aquatics Championships –
Doha 2024 served as the third stage of qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympics
in the artistic swimming Duet competition.
Six NOCs earned artistic swimming
Duet qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics in the third stage. These
positions were obtained by being the six highest-ranked, not-yet-qualified,
duets at the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024. These NOCs were (in order
of their final cumulative point ranking from the women's Duet competitions in
Doha): Great Britain, Netherlands, Greece, Israel, Ukraine and the Republic of
Korea.
Olympic History of Artistic Swimming
Artistic swimming made its debut as a
demonstration sport at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. The Los Angeles 1984
Games, though, is when artistic swimming achieved full Olympic sport status,
with medals awarded in the Women’s Duet and Women’s Solo events.
The Atlanta 1996 Olympics saw the
introduction of the women's Team event, replacing the other two artistic
swimming events. Starting with Sydney 2000, both Team and Duet competitions
have been part of the Olympic programme.
At Paris 2024, men will be allowed to
compete in artistic swimming for the first time in Olympic history,
participating in the Team event.
About the Paris 2024 Olympic
Qualification Pathway for Artistic Swimming
World Aquatics worked closely with
the IOC Sports Department and the leadership of the World Aquatics Artistic
Swimming Technical Committee, and also consulted with its National Member
Federations, to develop qualification principles for the artistic swimming
events for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The Aquatics Olympics Qualification
Principles for the Paris 2024 Games were published on 18 June 2022. For these
principles, please refer to the following link: Aquatics Olympic Qualification
System Principles.
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