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Team, Women

Date6 – 7 August 2021
StatusOlympic
LocationOlympic Aquatics Centre, 2-1, 2chome, Tatsumi, Koto-ku, Tatsumi-no-Mori Seaside Park, Tokyo, Japan
Participants72 from 9 countries
FormatFinal total is sum of the technical routine score and the free routine score.

Just as in the duet, the Russian women had dominated in artistic swimming’s (known prior to 2017 as synchronized swimming) team event. At the Olympics, they had not lost a competition since its 1996 début, when the Americans had captured gold. In Tokyo the Russians would compete under the banner of “Russian Olympic Committee athletes”, as Russia had been banned from competing under its own flag due to its large-scale doping programs. To understand the scope of Russia’s dominance at the World and European Championships, one needed only to look at the career of their star Svetlana Romashina, who had earned 21 world and 13 European titles since 2005, never finishing lower than first. China, meanwhile, had a history as runner-up at these tournaments that was almost as strong as Russia’s winning streak.

Competition in the team event was tighter than it had been in the duet, but the Russians still came out on top in both the technical and free routine portions of the tournament. China was not far behind, however, and came in a very close second overall. The bronze medal went to Ukraine, who had earlier won their first medal in the sport by coming in third in the duet, while the defending bronze medalists from Japan were able to manage only fourth.

PosCompetitorsNOCPointsTechnical RoutineFree Routine
1ROCROC196.097997.2979 (1)98.8000 (1)Gold
Vlada ChigiryovaMarina GolyadkinaSvetlana KolesnichenkoPolina KomarAleksandra PatskevichSvetlana RomashinaAlla ShishkinaMariya Shurochkina
2People's Republic of ChinaCHN193.531096.2310 (2)97.3000 (2)Silver
Feng YuGuo LiHuang XuechenLiang XinpingSun WenyanWang QianyiXiao YanningYin Chengxin
3UkraineUKR190.301894.2685 (3)96.0333 (3)Bronze
Maryna AleksiïvaVladyslava AleksiïvaMarta FedinaKateryna ReznikAnastasiya SavchukAlina ShynkarenkoKseniya SydorenkoYelyzaveta Yakhno
4JapanJPN188.310693.3773 (4)94.9333 (4)
Juka FukumuraYukiko InuiMoeka KijimaOkina KyogokuMayu TsukamotoAkane YanagisawaMashiro YasunagaMegumu Yoshida
5ItalyITA184.137291.3372 (6)92.8000 (5)
Beatrice CallegariDomiziana CavannaLinda CerrutiFrancesca DeiddaCostanza Di CamilloCostanza FerroGemma GalliEnrica Piccoli
6CanadaCAN184.032591.4992 (5)92.5333 (6)
Emily ArmstrongRosalie BoissonneaultAndrée-Anne CôtéCamille Fiola-DionClaudia HolznerAudrey JolyHalle PrattJacqueline Simoneau
7SpainESP181.911390.3780 (7)91.5333 (7)
Ona CarbonellBerta FerrerasMeritxell MasAlisa OzhoginaPaula RamírezSara SaldañaIris TióBlanca Toledano
8EgyptEGY157.914777.9147 (8)80.0000 (8)
Laila MohsenNora AzmyHanna HiekalMaryam MaghrabyFarida RadwanNehal SaafanShahd SamerJayda Sharaf
9AustraliaAUS153.001875.6351 (9)77.3667 (9)
Rayna BuckleHannah BurkhillKiera GazzardAlessandra HoKirsten KinashRachel PresserEmily RogersAmie Thompson
DNSGreeceGRE– (DNS)– (DNS)
Maria Alzigkouzi KomineaEleni FragkakiKrystalenia GialamaPinelopi KaramesiouAndriana MisikevychEvelina PapazoglouEvangelia PlataniotiGeorgia Vasilopoulou