Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's duet

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Women's Duet
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue Paris Aquatic Centre
Dates9-10 August
Competitors36 from 18 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Wang Liuyi
Wang Qianyi
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg Kate Shortman
Isabelle Thorpe
Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg Bregje de Brouwer
Noortje de Brouwer
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
  2020
2028  

The women's duet event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 9 to 10 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatic Centre. In the absence of Russian swimmers, the Chinese pair of Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi broke the Russian streak of six consecutive titles. The minor medals went to Great Britain's Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe and the Netherlands' Bregje and Nooryje de Brouwer, the first Olympic medals in the sport for both nations.

Qualification

For the duet, the highest-ranked NOC from each of the five continental meets that did not have a qualified team received a spot, while the remaining NOCs competed for the three remaining spots through the 2024 World Aquatics Championships. All ten NOCs eligible to compete in the team event were required to select two members to form a duet. [1]

Competition format

The competition consists of the technical routine and free routine. The points accumulated from each of these routines are added together to determine the final ranking. [2]

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Schedule [3]
DateTimeRound
9 August 202419:30Technical routine
10 August 202419:30Free routine

Results

RankNOCAthletesTechnical RoutineFree RoutineTotal Points
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Wang Liuyi & Wang Qianyi 276.7867289.6916566.4783
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain Kate Shortman & Isabelle Thorpe 264.0282294.5085558.5367
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Bregje de Brouwer & Noortje de Brouwer 264.7066293.6897558.3963
4Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Anna-Maria Alexandri & Eirini-Marina Alexandri 267.2533288.4145555.6678
5Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Maryna Aleksiiva & Vladyslava Aleksiiva 260.4600278.2084538.6684
6Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Sofia Malkogeorgou & Evangelia Platanioti 250.4584281.8418532.3002
7Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Alisa Ozhogina & Iris Tió Casas 254.0816267.4021521.4837
8Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Moe Higa & Tomoka Sato 257.3533249.7271507.0804
9Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Audrey Lamothe & Jacqueline Simoneau 201.5167290.9103492.4270
10Flag of the United States.svg  United States Jaime Czarkowski & Megumi Field 230.7134254.0354484.7488
11Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Shelly Bobritsky & Ariel Nassee 243.0666239.3416482.4082
12Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico Nuria Diosdado & Joana Jimenez 238.9383232.6563471.5946
13Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea Hur Yoon-seo & Lee Ri-young 227.5667227.7500455.3167
14Flag of France.svg  France Anastasia Bayandina & Romane Lunel 241.3116189.0687430.3803
15Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt Nadine Barsoum & Hana Hiekal 196.5250225.6541422.1791
16Flag of Australia.svg  Australia Rayna Buckle & Kiera Gazzard 210.0782198.0271408.1053
17Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Nina Brown & Eva Morris 188.0901166.5105354.6006
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Linda Cerruti & Lucrezia Ruggiero DNS

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References

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