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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...

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...

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 ...

The 2017 Synchro America Open presented by Le Rêve - The Dream, part of the inaugural FINA Synchronized Swimming World Series, concluded Saturday with Olympic-caliber routines by numerous medalists. Team USA's Bill May (Cicero, N.Y./Las Vegas) and Kanako Spendlove (Las Vegas) scored 90.1000 points i...

Curtain Call Visit the Swimming World Magazine Vault to Read More. Many of the athletes from last summer’s Olympic water polo, synchronized swimming, diving and open water competitions in Rio will be returning later this month, July 14-30, for encore performances at the World Championships in Budape...

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...

Team USA's Anita Alvarez (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Ruby Remati  (Andover, Mass.) finished 11th in duet free Monday on the final day of the Japan Open. The duo scored 82.3000 points in the final. Japan's Yukiko Inui and Kanami Nakamaki won gold with 92.4333 points, followed on the podium by Italy's Linda C...

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 ...

By Dax Lowery, Swimming World Contributor. Emma Baranski could not ask for a better ending to her collegiate career. The Ohio State senior captain was competing in her final meet, the U.S. Collegiate Synchronized Swimming Championships, last month in OSU's McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. She looked up at...

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...

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 second edition of the newest FINA event, the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018, concluded on Sunday July 1 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, after a ten-leg circuit across Europe, Asia and the Americas that started in Paris-Montreuil in March. Mexico and Uzbekistan were the most successful teams t...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

The U.S and China shared the gold medals at stake in the second leg of the FINA Synchronised Swimming World Series, held in Taiyuan (CHN), from April 22-24, 2017. In the team events, China grabbed the gold medals with 91.6333 points in the free, and 89.4537 in the technical respectively. USA’s Anita...

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...

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...

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 ...