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Passages: Judy McGowan, ISHOF Artistic Swimmer Inductee Judy McGowan, a long-time synchronized and artistic swimming competitor, coach and official, died on March 10. McGowan was a massive figure in American synchronized swimming for a half-century, including as Founding President of U.S. Synchroniz...

Team USA’s Anita Alvarez (Kenmore, N.Y.) and Mariya Koroleva (Concord, Calif.) have punched their ticket for the Rio Olympic Games this summer, qualifying in duet.  The pair will be the only synchronized swimming representatives for the United States as USA failed to qualify for the team event. The ...

By Dax Lowery, Swimming World contributor Paola Tirados, born in the Canary Islands in 1980, was a member of Spain's synchronized swimming team at three Olympics Games (2000, 2004, 2008) and won a team silver medal in 2008. She enjoyed a highly decorative competitive career, winning 10 World Champio...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced that Russian synchronized swimmer Anastasia Davydova will join 17 others as honorees who will enter the International Swimming Hall of Fame as the Class of 2017. Davydova is the fourteenth member of the class to be named for ceremonies to be ...

This year’s top LEN artistic (synchronised) swimming event, the Champions Cup kicks off on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia, and offers Olympic synchro spot for the respective winners of the duet and team events. Host Russia is the outstanding favourite to book those Tokyo spots this weekend. At the...

2016 Athletes of the Year: Each January Swimming World Magazine celebrates the accomplishments of the many other aquatic sports by naming our Athletes of the Year. The athletes of water polo, diving, paralympic swimming and synchronized swimming all delivered strong performances at the 2016 Rio Olym...

The free routine final of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games was highlighted by a near perfect routine by the Russian synchronized swimming team of Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, 2012 Olympic defending champions. The Russian pair posted a final score of 194.9910, while the silver medals were pick...

by Dax Lowery, Swimming World Contributor.  U.S. National Team coach Lolli Montico can thank her mom’s inattention to detail for her career in synchronized swimming. Born in Rome, Montico grew up in the water. She was already swimming competitively, winning trophies as the fastest swimmer in her age...

Team Russia clinched nine gold medals out of ten available this weekend in Kazan, Russia, as the experienced host city staged the third leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019 for the first time since the inception of the annual competition in 2017. The favourite duet composed of Olympic...

By Dax Lowery, Swimming World contributor Sue Johnson’s love of math, synchro and golf has given her the world. As the Scoring Chair at seven Olympic Games and a longtime volunteer for the United States Golf Association, Johnson has traveled just about everywhere to offer her scoring expertise. Alon...

The fifth leg of the 2017 FINA Synchronized Swimming World Series is set to be held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands from May 26-28. Swimmers from Australia, Austria, Belarus, France, Germany, Hungary, japan, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Ukraine will be repr...

The third stop of the 2017 FINA Synchro Swimming World Series featured Rio medallists along with a number of other talented entrants as well; the event was held in Tokyo, Japan from April 28-30. The competition featured a strong Japanese team that won all the team events and took second in the solo ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Five members of the Ohio State Synchronized Swimming team -- Emma Baranski, Elizabeth Davidson, Lorraine Hack, Alyssa Hoying and Monica Velasquez-Stiak – have been selected to the US Senior National Training Squad. Over the next four years, the squad members will be invited to regul...

By Dax Lowery, Swimming World Contributor Spider-Man speeds along the side of the pool as the crowd begins to cheer. “You got this!” someone yells. Steven Aguirre, aka Spider-Man, stops and squats into position. Soon after his theme song begins, he bounces up and appears to shoot invisible webbing b...

ORO VALLEY, Ariz. – USA Synchro announced the athletes named to the 13-15 and 12 & Under National Teams following the recent U.S. National Synchronized Swimming Championships. The swimmers were selected after several team trials. There will be two 13-15 national teams and one 12 & Under team. The at...

 2017 Athletes of the Year Each January, Swimming World celebrates the accomplishments of the non-swimming aquatic sports by naming the Athletes of the Year. The sports of diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, and paralympic swimming each accomplished great feats in 2017. While most of the athl...

This year's Synchro America Open presented by Le Rêve - The Dream, the only international synchronized swimming event held in the U.S., will have a decidedly Olympic flavor once competition begins June 22 at the Nassau County Aquatic Center. The event, part of the inaugural FINA Synchronized Swimmin...

Several U.S. national team members picked up medals Thursday at the UANA Pan American Synchronized Swimming Championships. Megumi Field and Sarine Cho, members of the 12 & Under National Team, won gold in duet, and Junior National Team member Emmanuella Tchakmakjian earned solo bronze on the secon.....

Team Ukraine dominated the Team, Combination and Highlight events this weekend in Las Palmas, in the Canary Island in Spain, where the fifth leg of the FINA Synchro World Series 2017 was taking place. Ukraine collected 183.8718 points in the Team routine, in front of Spain (178.8717) and Kazakhstan ...

FINA's leadership is debating a proposal to impose a three-month moratorium on all major events under its jurisdiction, including all Olympic test events in open water, synchro, diving  and water polo, for men and women as well as the bulk of the 2020 Diving World Series, the Synchro World Series an...