Artistic swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games explained

Event:Artistic swimming
Games:2019
Venue:Aquatics Centre
Dates:July 29–31, 2019
Competitors:80
Nations:12
Prev:2015
Next:2023

Artistic swimming competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru are scheduled were held between July 29 and 31, 2019 at the Aquatics Centre in the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.[1]

The sport was renamed from synchronized swimming to artistic swimming in 2017, making this the first edition of the Pan American Games to have the new title.[2] The competition was open to only women, and two competitions were held: duet and team.

The highest ranked team and the highest ranked duet will qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. If the highest ranked team and duet are from the same country, the second ranked duet will qualify.[3]

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the artistic swimming competitions:

Event↓/Date → Mon 29 Wed 31
T F
TF

Medal summary

Medalists

Duet

Claudia Holzner
Jacqueline Simoneau

Nuria Diosdado
Joana Jiménez

Anita Alvarez
Ruby Remati


Emily Armstrong
Catherine Barrett
Andrée-Anne Côté
Camille Fiola-Dion
Rebecca Harrower
Claudia Holzner
Audrey Joly
Halle Pratt
Jacqueline Simoneau

Regina Alférez
Teresa Alonso
Nuria Diosdado
Joana Jiménez
Luisa Rodríguez
Jessica Sobrino
Ana Soto
Pamela Toscano
Amaya Velázquez

Anita Alvarez
Paige Areizaga
Nicole Goot
Hannah Heffernan
Daniella Ramirez
Ruby Remati
Abby Remmers
Lindi Schroeder
Emma Tchakmakjian

Participating nations

A total of 12 countries qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

Qualification

See main article: Artistic swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. A total of 80 artistic swimmers will qualify to compete at the games. As host nation, Peru qualifies the maximum team size of nine athletes. Seven other teams will qualify (each with nine athletes). Each team will also be required to compete in the duet event with athletes already qualified for the team event. A further four countries will qualify a duet only.[4]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pan American Schedule. 13 June 2019. www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 16 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190616214134/https://lima2019.s3.amazonaws.com/images/panamericanos-en-13-06-19.pdf. 16 June 2019. dead.
  2. Web site: FINA Renames Synchronized Swimming. Keith. Braden. 22 July 2017. www.swimswam.com/. Swim Swam. 3 August 2018.
  3. Web site: International Swimming Federation (FINA) Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020. 19 March 2018. wwwcdn.dosb.de/. International Swimming Federation (FINA). 3 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180804110036/https://cdn.dosb.de/user_upload/Olympische_Spiele/Tokio_2020/internationale_Qualifikationskriterien/FINA_-_Artistic_Swimming_20180319.pdf. 4 August 2018. dead.
  4. Web site: Qualification System manual. 25 April 2018. www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 3 August 2018.