Synchronized swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's duet

The women's duet synchronized swimming event at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 18 to 20, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center.

Women's duet
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Aquatics Center in Beijing
VenueBeijing National Aquatics Center
Date18–20 August 2008
Competitors48 from 24 nations
Winning points99.251
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Anastasia Davydova
Anastasia Ermakova
 Russia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Andrea Fuentes
Gemma Mengual
 Spain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Saho Harada
Emiko Suzuki
 Japan
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24 duets competed, each consisting of two swimmers, and there were two rounds of competition. The preliminary round consisted of a technical routine and a free routine. Finalists performed a second free routine, adding that score to the preliminary technical routine round score. The technical routine consisted of ten required elements, which had to be completed in order and within a time of between 2 minutes 5 seconds and 2 minutes 35 seconds. The free routine had no restrictions other than time; this routine had to last between 3 minutes 15 seconds and 3 minutes 45 seconds.

For each routine, the team was judged by two panels of five judges each. One panel is the technical jury, the other is the artistic jury. Each judge gives marks of between 0 and 10. The highest and lowest score from each panel are dropped, leaving a total of six scores which are then summed to give the routine's score. The scores of the two routines are then added to give a final score for the team.

Results

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Preliminary

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Rank Country Athlete Technical Free Total
1   Russia Anastasia Davydova & Anastasiya Yermakova 49.334 49.500 98.834
2   Spain Andrea Fuentes & Gemma Mengual 48.834 49.084 97.918
3   Japan Saho Harada & Emiko Suzuki 48.250 48.400 96.750
4   China Jiang Tingting & Jiang Wenwen 48.084 48.500 96.584
5   United States Christina Jones & Andrea Nott 47.750 47.750 95.500
6   Canada Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon & Isabelle Rampling 47.417 47.333 94.750
7   Italy Beatrice Adelizzi & Giulia Lapi 46.834 47.000 93.834
8   Ukraine Daria Iushko & Kseniya Sydorenko 46.084 46.334 92.418
9   Netherlands Bianca van der Velden & Sonja van der Velden 45.584 45.834 91.418
9   Greece Evanthia Makrygianni & Despoina Solomou 45.834 45.584 91.418
11   France Apolline Dreyfuss & Lila Meesseman-Bakir 44.750 45.250 90.000
12   Switzerland Magdalena Brunner & Ariane Schneider 44.250 45.000 89.250
13   Brazil Nayara Figueira & Lara Teixeira 44.334 44.667 89.001
14   Great Britain Olivia Allison & Jenna Randall 43.917 44.667 88.584
15   Israel Anastasia Gloushkov & Inna Yoffe 43.583 43.334 86.917
16   North Korea Kim Yong-Mi & Wang Ok-Gyong 42.917 43.584 86.501
17   Belarus Katsiaryna Kulpo & Nastassia Parfenava 42.667 42.667 85.334
18   Czech Republic Soňa Bernardová & Alžběta Dufková 42.500 42.750 85.250
19   Mexico Mariana Cifuentes & Isabel Delgado 42.334 42.834 85.168
20   Kazakhstan Ainur Kerey & Arna Toktagan 41.750 42.583 84.333
21   Australia Myriam Glez & Erika Leal-Ramirez 41.250 41.584 82.834
22   Austria Nadine Brandl & Elisabeth Mahn 41.250 41.167 82.417
23   New Zealand Lisa Daniels & Nina Daniels 40.750 40.417 81.167
24   Egypt Reem Abdalazem & Dalia El Gebaly 40.417 40.250 80.667

Final

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Rank Country Athlete Technical Free Total
    Russia Anastasia Davydova & Anastasiya Yermakova 49.334 49.917 99.251
    Spain Andrea Fuentes & Gemma Mengual 48.834 49.500 98.334
    Japan Saho Harada & Emiko Suzuki 48.250 48.917 97.167
4   China Jiang Tingting & Jiang Wenwen 48.084 48.250 96.334
5   United States Christina Jones & Andrea Nott 47.750 47.750 95.500
6   Canada Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon & Isabelle Rampling 47.417 47.667 95.084
7   Italy Beatrice Adelizzi & Giulia Lapi 46.834 46.917 93.751
8   Ukraine Daria Iushko & Kseniya Sydorenko 46.084 46.584 92.668
9   Netherlands Bianca van der Velden & Sonja van der Velden 45.584 46.083 91.667
10   Greece Evanthia Makrygianni & Despoina Solomou 45.834 45.667 91.501
11   France Apolline Dreyfuss & Lila Meesseman-Bakir 44.750 45.583 90.333
12   Switzerland Magdalena Brunner & Ariane Schneider 44.250 45.000 89.250

References

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