Read moreOna Carbonell, 23-Time World Champion Medalist Artistic Swimmer, Retires22 May 2023Ona Carbonell, 23-Time World Champion Medalist Artistic Swimmer, Retires Ona Carbonell, a two-time Olympic medalist and 23-time World Championships medalist, announced her retirement from artistic swimming last week. The Spanish international qualified for three Olympics and returned with medals twi...
Read moreMexican Artistic Swimming Turns to Fundraising, Patronage of Carlos Slim12 May 2023Mexican Artistic Swimming Turns to Fundraising, Patronage of Carlos Slim In an effort to make ends meet, Mexican artistic swimming program has turned to fundraising and the patronage of rich benefactors within the country. Reuters detailed the efforts this week, with the artistic swimming program se...
Read moreUSA Artistic Swimming Featured in Super Bowl Ad for TRESemme15 February 2023USA Artistic Swimming Featured in Super Bowl Ad for TRESemmé As part of a partnership with USA Artistic Swimming, eight American athletes were featured in a Super Bowl advertisement for TRESemmé. The ad comes with a partnership agreement between USA Artistic swimming and the haircare company. The at...
Read moreSummer McIntosh, Joshua Liendo Win 2022 Aquatics Canada Aquatiques Awards11 January 2023Summer McIntosh, Joshua Liendo Win 2022 ACA Awards Summer McIntosh and Joshua Liendo were named the Female and Male Athletes of the Year in the 2022 Aquatics Canada Aquatiques (ACA) Awards released Tuesday. The ACA Awards recognize the top contributors in a variety of disciplines in Canadian swimmin...
Read moreArtistic Swimming: IOC Approves World Aquatics to Allow Men to Participate in Paris 202422 December 2022The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has given its approval for World Aquatics to allow men to participate in the Artistic Swimming competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Artistic Swimming was formerly known as synchronised swimming until 2017). Men will now be eligible to compete in the...
Read moreFINA Announces Artistic Swimmer Anita Alvarez Will Not Compete in Team Final After Fainting During Solo Competition24 June 2022FINA Announces Artistic Swimmer Anita Alvarez Will Not Compete in Team Final After Fainting During Solo Competition FINA has announced that U.S. artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez will not compete in the team final at the 2022 World Championships. Alvarez lost consciousness during the her routine in the...
Read moreAmerican Artistic Swimmer Anita Alvarez Rescued By Coach After Fainting During Competition23 June 2022American Artistic Swimmer Anita Alvarez Faints During Competition, Saved by Coach The artistic swimming competition at the 2022 FINA World Championships was the site of a dramatic scene when American Anita Alvarez fainted during competition and had to be rescued by a coach. Alvarez lost consciousnes...
Read moreArtistic Swimmer Sarah-Eve Pelletier to Head Canada’s Safe Sport Program10 April 2022Artistic Swimmer Sarah-Eve Pelletier to Head Canada’s Safe Sport Program Retired artistic swimmer Sarah-Eve Pelletier was announced this week as the first head of Canada’s safe sport program. Pelletier was announced Tuesday as the first Sports Integrity Commissioner by the Sport Dispute Resolution C...
Read moreAquatics Teams in Hungary, Italy Rallying to Shelter Ukraine Athletes11 March 2022Aquatics Teams in Hungary, Italy Rallying to Shelter Ukraine Athletes Aquatics athletes from Ukraine are getting support, in moments small and large, from fellow athletes across Europe as the invasion of their country by Russia drags on. The Hungarian Swimming Association this week has opened its do...
Read moreUSA Artistic Swimming Nominates Bill May for FINA Athletes Committee02 March 2022The leadership of the five constituent members of United States Aquatic Sports (USAS) – USA Artistic Swimming, USA Diving, US Masters Swimming, USA Swimming and USA Water Polo – met last month to endorse the nomination of Bill May by the athlete members of USA Artistic Swimming for a position on the...
Read moreSvetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko Named Swimming World's Artistic Swimmers of the Year28 December 2021Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko Named Swimming World's Artistic Swimmers of the Year With the end of 2021 rapidly approaching, Swimming World has been handing out a variety of awards for the different aquatic disciplines. This year, because there was no way to separate their performanc...
Read moreSanta Clara Aquamaids Appoints Bill May as New Head Coach15 December 2021The Santa Clara Aquamaids (SCA), a pillar in the sport of artistic swimming in the United States and one of the most-recognized elite clubs globally, is excited to announce that internationally renowned artistic swimmer and long-time Cirque du Soleil performer Bill May will serve as the Santa Clara ...
Read morePassages: Dawn Bean, Synchronized Swimming Pioneer Dies at 94, On Same Day as Fellow Pioneer Joy Cushman23 September 2021On the same day that synchronized swimming pioneer Joy Cushman died at 98, another pioneer in the sport also died. Dawn Bean, who along with Cushman were instrumental in the development of synchronized swimming as an international sport, died at 94. Bean, who was inducted into the International Swim...
Read morePassages: Joy Cushman, ISHOF Honoree and Synchronized Swimming Pioneer, Dies at 9822 September 2021Joy Cushman, International Swimming Hall of Fame honoree, died on Wednesday. She was 98. She was a member of United States Synchronized Swimming, and represented the group on the United States Olympic Committee's Executive Board from 1956-75. She was the USSS Chairperson from 1958-63 and was the FIN...
Read moreRussian Synchronized Swimmer Elvira Khasyanova To Be Inducted Into International Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 202110 September 2021Russian synchronized swimmer, Elvira Khasyanova - now living in the United States, was a member of the Russian National Team from 1999 through 2011. She participated in three Olympic Games, winning gold medals in the team competition in 2004 in Athens, 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. She won th...
Read moreArtistic Swimming: Ancient Roman Spectacle to Modern Olympic Sport02 July 2021Artistic Swimming: Ancient Roman Spectacle to Modern Olympic Sport By Vicki Valosik Most people think of synchronized swimming, which gained Olympic status in 1984 and was renamed “artistic swimming” in 2017, as a newcomer sport dating back only as far as Esther Williams' mid-century movies. But the...
Read moreStanford Reinstates 11 Sports That Were Going to be Cut, Including Synchronized Swimming18 May 2021Bolstered by an improved financial picture with increased fundraising potential, Stanford will continue 11 varsity sports that had been slated for discontinuation at the end of this academic year, including synchronized swimming. Stanford leaders announced that while the structural financial challen...
Read moreEuropean Championships: Martina Fiedina Leads Ukraine to Artistic Team Trophy; British Divers Soar15 May 2021 In the closing event in artistic swimming at the European Championships, Ukraine came closer to Russia in the gold medal race (6-4) as they won the Highlights Routine. Belarus finished second and host Hungary claimed its first-ever medal in artistic swimming, a bronze. With eight podium finishes in...
Read more2021 European Aquatics Championships: Russian Artistic Swimmers Near Perfect; Divers Claim Historic Victory14 May 2021 The Russian duet of Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko continued to dominate artistic swimming, earning one perfect mark for the free routine at the European Championships. Another Russian gold came in the mixed duet while Ukraine won the team free and Israel claimed a historic first-eve...
Read moreUSOPC 2019 Impact Report Shows Revenue Shortfalls, Program Funding Increase03 August 2020The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Monday released its 2019 Impact Report, formerly its annual report, detailing the organization’s financials. The report was accompanied by a letter from USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland and a sport-specific breakdown of expenditures, the Sport Bene...