Doha, Qatar, February 12, 2024: Following the conclusion of the artistic swimming events at the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024, the Olympic qualification pathway for the artistic swimming programme at the Paris 2024 Olympics has been finalised.
Two artistic swimming competitions will feature on the Paris 2024 Olympics programme: Team and Duet. The artistic swimming events will take place between 5-10 August in the Aquatics Centre, a facility that will also host the diving and water polo competitions at Paris 2024.
Ninety-six artistic swimmers are expected to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympics. NOC quota positions account for 88 of the qualification places and France as host nation was allocated eight places.
Artistic Swimming Team Qualification
The artistic swimming Team event at the Paris 2024 Olympics will feature 10 countries, with each team comprised of a maximum of eight competing athletes and one reserve athlete.
Men will be eligible to compete in artistic swimming for the first time in Olympic Games history, with a maximum of two men per team allowed to compete in the artistic swimming Team competition.
Five teams qualified through continental championships or host country, including China from the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou last year.
Five additional teams qualified by being the five highest-placed NOCs from the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024 that were not already qualified through the continental championships/host country criteria. These five include Japan.
Artistic Swimming Duet Qualification
Artistic swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympics will feature 18 duets with each NOC eligible to qualify a maximum of one duet into the event.
The qualification pathway for Paris 2024 provided three chronological stages for a NOC to qualify for the artistic swimming Duet competition.
The first stage was through artistic swimming Team qualification. The 10 NOCs that qualified for the Team competition (including the host country) automatically qualified one duet into the Paris 2024 Olympics. The 10 NOCs include Japan and China.
The second stage involved up to five NOCs qualifying through Continental Championships/Host Country criteria. The 19th Asian Games was the continental qualifier,
The United States and Japan – the continental championships artistic swimming Duet qualifiers from the Americas and Asia – earned their NOC a position by the first stage of the criteria. Therefore, this quota space is then reallocated to the next highest ranked Duet at the World Championships 2024 Doha, Duet event. The place for Asia has been awarded to Korea.