Synchro

FINA 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...

American 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...

Artistic 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...

Aquatics 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...

The 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...

Svetlana 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...

The 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 ...

On 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...

Joy 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...

Russian 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...

Artistic 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...

Bolstered 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...

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...

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...

The 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...

USA Artistic Swimming Foundation and USA Artistic Swimming are pleased to announce the launch of our new Annual Giving Campaign complete with dynamic new giving levels and exciting gifts for donors at all levels. We are launching this new campaign in conjunction with our participation in Giving Game...

Stanford University announced it will discontinue 11 varsity sports after the 2020-21 school year with synchronized swimming being one of the aquatic sports victimized by the COVID-19 pandemic. In an open letter sent out by the university, the university will discontinue men’s and women’s fencing, f...

The USA Artistic Swimming Foundation is ready to start a new grant cycle to support your projects and programs designed to grow the sport!  Interested parties have until July 15, 2020 to go online, fill out the form, and tell the Foundation why their grant proposal is a real need and a great idea fo...

FINA, the international federation, has postponed Olympic qualifiers in diving and synchronised swimming due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and related containment measures. The FINA statement in full: FINA informed today all 209 National Member Federations that its COVID-19 Taskforce, in co...

In a little more than a year, the organization formerly known as USA Synchronized Swimming or USA Synchro for short has transformed itself. Under the leadership of their board of directors they have hired a new Chief Executive Officer, arguably the best coaching staff in the world, revitalized event...