| 18th World Aquatics Artistic Swimming Junior Championships | |
|---|---|
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| Host city |  Lima, Peru |
| Date(s) | 28 August–1 September |
| Venue(s) | Videna Aquatic Centre |
2026 → | |
The 18th World Aquatics Artistic Swimming Junior Championships will be held from 28 August to 1 September 2024 at Videna Aquatic Centre in Lima, Peru. [1] The competition is open to females between 15 and 19 years of age, and males between 15 and 20 years of age, inclusive, per their age at the end of the 2024 calendar year. [2]
| P | Preliminaries | F | Final |
| Date [3] Event | Wed 28 | Thu 29 | Fri 30 | Sat 31 | Sun 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Solo Technical | F | ||||
| Women's Solo Free | P | F | |||
| Women's Duet Technical | F | ||||
| Women's Duet Free | P | F | |||
| Women's Team Technical | F | ||||
| Women's Team Free | P | F | |||
| Women's Team Acrobatic | F | ||||
| Men's Solo Technical | F | ||||
| Men's Solo Free | F | ||||
| Mixed Duet Technical | F | ||||
| Mixed Duet Free | F |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo technical | Xu Huiyan  China | 281.8533 | Marloes Steenbeek  Netherlands | 273.5599 | Sakurako Uchida  Japan | 270.7017 |
| Solo free | Zoi Karangelou  Greece | 283.2958 | Marloes Steenbeek Netherlands | 283.1460 | Xu Huiyan China | 282.0334 |
| Duet technical | Japan Risako Mitsuhashi Sakurako Uchida | 282.2267 |  Ukraine Daria Moshynska Anastasiia Shmonina | 281.4283 |  Spain Naia Alvarez Vicente Rocío Calle García | 270.0083 |
| Duet free | Ukraine Daria Moshynska Anastasiia Shmonina | 294.6001 | China Xu Huiyan Zhang Wanyi | 290.7793 | Spain Naia Alvarez Vicente Rocío Calle García | 276.5147 |
| Team technical | China | 305.3328 | Japan | 303.8268 | Spain | 299.3034 |
| Team free | China | 387.4418 | Japan | 375.2146 | Spain | 347.9065 |
| Team acrobatic |  United States | 233.1699 |  Mexico | 233.0467 | China | 232.5300 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo technical | Diego Villalobos Carrillo Mexico | 258.5516 | Guo Muye China | 257.8783 | Nicolás Campos  Chile | 251.1600 |
| Solo free | Diego Villalobos Carrillo Mexico | 255.0521 | Nicolás Campos Chile | 253.5354 | Guo Muye China | 253.0042 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duet technical | China Guo Muye Guo Sitong | 274.6433 | Mexico Camila Argumedo Gomez Diego Villalobos Carrillo | 267.8083 |  Italy Filippo Pelati Sarah Maria Rizea | 260.3166 |
| Duet free | Mexico Camila Argumedo Gomez Diego Villalobos Carrillo | 270.4042 | China Guo Muye Zhou Kunyi | 264.8729 | Spain Ariadna Benito Jordi Caceres Iglesias | 251.8313 |
* Host nation (Peru)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 2 | Mexico | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Japan | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Greece | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | Netherlands | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Chile | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 10 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 | |
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