Olympic Summer Games 2008 / synchronized swimming

Synchronized swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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venue	Beijing
Competition venue	National swimming center
Nations	24
Athletes	104 (104 )
date	August 18-23, 2008
decisions	2
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At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , two synchronized swimming competitions were held for women, one in a duet and one with the team. A team consisted of nine athletes. A total of eight teams and 24 duets were allowed to take part, although each nation could only send one duet and one team to the start. The winners of the five continental eliminations in 2007 and 2008 qualified for the team competition, with the People's Republic of China as the representative of Asiawas true. In addition, the top three nations of a qualifying tournament in April 2008 in Beijing. If one of the continents did not send a representative, the next-placed teams in this qualifying tournament moved up. The nations qualified for the team competition were also allowed to nominate a duet, whereby both athletes had to belong to the team. The other 16 starting places were also awarded at the qualification tournament, with each continent having an additional duet.

duet

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	RUS	Anastassija Dawydowa Anastassija Yermakowa	49.917
2	ESP	Andrea Fuentes Gemma Mengual	49,500
3	JPN	Saho Harada Emiko Suzuki	48.917
4th	CHN	Jiang Tingting Jiang Wenwen	48,250
5	United States	Christina Jones Andrea Nott	47.750
6th	CAN	Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon Isabelle Rampling	47.667
7th	ITA	Beatrice Adelizzi Giulia Lapi	46.917
8th	UKR	Darja Yuschko Xenia Sidorenko	46,584

Date: August 20, 2008, 3:00 p.m.

team

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	RUS	Anastassija Dawydowa Anastassija Yermakowa Marija Gromowa Natalja Ishtschenko Elwira Chassjanowa Olga Kuschela Svetlana Romaschina Anna Schorina	100,000
2	ESP	Alba María Cabello Raquel Corral Andrea Fuentes Thaïs Henríquez Laura Lopez Gemma Mengual Irina Rodriguez Paola Tirados	98.667
3	CHN	Beibei Gu Tingting Jiang Wenwen Jiang Ou Liu Xi Luo Qiuting Sun Na Wang Xiaohuan Zhang	97,500
4th	CAN	Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon Jessika Dubuc Marie-Pierre Gagne Dominika Kopcik Eve Lamoureux Tracy Little Elise Marcotte Jennifer Song	96.167
5	United States	Brooke Abel Janet Culp Kate Hooven Christina Jones Andrea Nott Annabelle Orme Jillian Penner Kim Probst	95,500
6th	JPN	Ai Aoki Saho Harada Naoko Kawashima Hiromi Kobayashi Erika Komura Ayako Matsumura Emiko Suzuki Masako Tachibana	94.333
7th	OUT	Eloise Amberger Coral Bentley Sarah Bombell Myriam Glez Erika Leal-Ramirez Tarren Otte Samantha Reid Bethany Walsh	83,500
8th	EGY	Reem Abdalazem Aziza Abdelfattah Hagar Badran Dalia El Gebaly Shaza El Sayed Youmna Khallaf Mai Mohamed Nouran Saleh	82.166

Date: August 23, 2008, 3:00 p.m.

Russia won gold for the third time in a row, for hosts China the bronze medal was the first medal in this discipline.