The 2nd FINA Synchronised Swimming World Trophy was held 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It featured swimmers from 8 nations, swimming in three events: Duet, Team and Free Combination. [1]
8 nations swam at the 2007 Synchro World Trophy:
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Duet details | Anastasia Davydova Anastasia Ermakova Russia | 98.334 | Gemma Mengual Andrea Fuentes Spain | 98.000 | Christina Jones Andrea Nott USA | 96.666 |
Team details | Spain | 99.667 | Russia | 99.000 | USA | 96.000 |
Free combination details | Russia | 99.000 | USA | 98.667 | Spain | 97.333 |
Place | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|
1 | Russia | 296.333 |
2 | Spain | 295.000 |
3 | USA | 291.334 |
FINA is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competitions in water sports. It is one of several international federations which administer a given sport or discipline for both the IOC and the international community. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The 3rd FINA World Swimming Championships were an international swimming meet organized by FINA. It was held at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden April 17−20, 1997; and featured 501 swimmers from 71 nations.
The 2nd FINA World Swimming Championships was an international swimming meet held on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 30 November until 3 December 1995. The meet featured 32 events swum in a short course (25m) pool.
The 1st Short Course Swimming World Championships were organized by FINA and held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, December 2–5, 1993. The meet featured competition in a short course pool. During the championships, a total of 12 world records were broken: 10 in the women's events and 2 in men's events, both in relays.
Gustavo França Borges is a Brazilian former competitive swimmer. He swam for Brazil in the Summer Olympic Games in: 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. Borges has won the second-most Olympic medals of any Brazilian, with four—one in 1992, two in 1996 and one in 2000—behind sailors Robert Scheidt and Torben Grael. He also has the third-most Pan American Games gold medals of any Brazilian, with eight—behind swimmer Thiago Pereira and table tennis player Hugo Hoyama. Borges was Brazil's flagbearer for the Closing Ceremony at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Fernando de Queiroz Scherer is a Brazilian former international swimmer. He won the bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and another bronze medal four years later in Sydney with the Brazilian relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle.
The 14th FINA World Championships were held on 16–31 July 2011 in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. The 2011 World Championships featured five aquatics disciplines: swimming, water polo, diving, open water, and synchronized swimming. At this championships, synchronized swimmer Natalia Ishchenko, of Russia, was the most decorated competitor winning all six gold medals of her events, at solo, duet and team routines. These championships served as qualifying stages for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Maria Emma Hulga Lenk was a Brazilian swimmer, the first South American woman to participate in the Summer Olympic Games, in 1932.
The swimming events of the 2001 World Aquatics Championships were held in a temporary pool at Marine Messe in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2001. This edition of the championships featured 20 events for both men and women, including the introduction of a 50 m event in all strokes and equality in the distance freestyle events, with both men and women swimming both 800 and 1500 m.
Poliana Okimoto is a Brazilian long-distance swimmer.
The 15th FINA World Championships were held from 20 July to 4 August in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The 2013 World Championships featured 6 aquatics disciplines: swimming, water polo, diving, high diving, open water, and synchronised swimming.
The FINA Synchronised Swimming World Trophy is an annual, international synchronised swimming event, organized by FINA. To highlight the beauty of synchronised swimming, this competition differ from other top-level international competitions: scores are given for the Artistic Impression only, accessories or equipment are permitted, etc. It was first held in 2006.
The 10th FINA Synchronised Swimming World Cup was held September 12–15, 2002 in Zurich, Switzerland. It featured swimmers from 12 nations, swimming in three events: Solo, Duet and Team.
The 12th FINA Synchronised Swimming World Cup was held September 16–19, 2010 in Changshu, China. It featured swimmers from 23 nations, swimming in four events: Solo, Duet, Team and Free Combination.
Phillip Cameron Morrison is a Brazilian swimmer of American descent, who specialized in freestyle events. He represented his nation Brazil as a member of the freestyle relay team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also served as a member of the Stanford Cardinal swimming squad at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where he graduated with a degree in earth systems, major in human biology.
The 9th FINA Synchronised Swimming World Cup was held September 8–12, 1999, in Seoul, Korea. It featured swimmers from 12 nations, swimming in three events: Solo, Duet, and Team.
The 1st FINA Synchronised Swimming World Cup was held 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. It had swimmers from eight nations, swimming in three events: solo, duet and team.
The 3rd FINA Synchronised Swimming World Trophy was held December 5–7, 2008 in Madrid, Spain. It featured swimmers from 8 nations, swimming in four events: Duet Free, Duet Thematic, Team Free and Free Combination.
The 1st FINA Synchronised Swimming World Trophy was held 2006 in Moscow, Russia. It featured swimmers from 8 nations, swimming in three events: Duet, Team and Free Combination.
Marcos Antônio Costa Ferreira de Macedo is a Brazilian competitive swimmer. is a Brazilian professional swimmer. He currently competes for the Fiat/Minas team. Marcos won the 4 × 100 m medley relay in the 2014 World Swimming Championship.