Final results for the synchronized swimming competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Previous Olympics had a Solo and Duet event but for the 1996 there would only be a team event. Duet would return at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
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| Event | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Team |
United States Suzannah Bianco Tammy Cleland Becky Dyroen-Lancer Heather Pease Jill Savery Nathalie Schneyder Heather Simmons-Carrasco Jill Sudduth Emily Lesueur Margot Thien |
Canada Karen Clark Sylvie Frechette Janice Bremner Karen Fonteyne Christine Larsen Erin Woodley Cari Read Lisa Alexander Valerie Hould-Marchand Kasia Kulesza |
Japan Miya Tachibana Akiko Kawase Rei Jimbo Miho Takeda Raika Fujii Miho Kawabe Junko Tanaka Riho Nakajima Mayuko Fujiki Kaori Takahashi |
Eight countries qualified for the Olympic Games at an Olympic Qualifying event held in conjunction with the 1995 NationsBank Synchronized Swimming World Cup.
Each team had ten members.
The team competition included two events, the technical routine program and the free routine program. The compulsory figures event, which was part of the Olympic Games since 1984 was dropped.
The technical routine required entries to perform a series of required elements in prescribed order. It had a time limit of two minutes and 50 seconds. Music selection and limited choreography was up to the discretion of each team.
In the free routine, there were no specifications for the routine other than the five-minute time limit.
In both the technical and free routines, a panel of 10 judges (five giving scores for technical merit and five awarding scores for artistic impression) awarded points from 0 to 10 in one tenth point increments.
Once the technical merit and artistic impression scores were calculated for a total score, the technical routine score was weighted to 35 percent and the free routine to 65 percent. These two scores were then added together to determine overall medal placement.[2]
| Rank | Team NOC | Points |
|---|---|---|
| United States (USA) Suzannah Bianco Tammy Cleland Becky Dyroen-Lancer Heather Pease Jill Savery Nathalie Schneyder Heather Simmons-Carrasco |
99.720 | |
| Canada Karen Clark Sylvie Frechette Janice Bremner Karen Fonteyne Christine Larsen Erin Woodley Cari Read Lisa Alexander Valerie Hould-Marchand Kasia Kulesza |
98.367 | |
| Japan (JPN) Miya Tachibana Akiko Kawase Rei Jimbo Miho Takeda Raika Fujii Miho Kawabe Junko Tanaka Riho Nakajima Mayuko Fujiki Kaori Takahashi |
97.753 | |
| 4 | Russia (RUS) Elena Azarova Anna Iouriaeva Maria Kisseleva Olga Brousnikina Elena Antonova Marina Lobova Youlia Pankratova Olga Novokshchenova Gana Maximova Olga Sedakova |
97.260 |
| 5 | France (FRA) Virginie Dedieu Marianne Aeschbacher Myriam Lignot Celine Leveque Julie Fabre Isabelle Manable Magali Rathier Charlotte Massardier Delphine Marechal Eva Riffet |
96.076 |
| 6 | Italy (ITA) Serena Bianchi Giada Ballan Manuela Carnini Mara Brunetti Giovanna Burlando Brunella Carrafelli Roberta Farinelli Paola Celli Maurizia Cecconi Letizia Nuzzo |
94.253 |
| 7 | China (CHN) Li Min Long Yan Chen Xuan Wu Chunlan Li Yuanyuan Jin Na Fu Yuling Li Fei Guo Cui Pan Yan |
94.124 |
| 8 | Mexico (MEX) Wendy Aguilar Olivia Gonzalez, Lilian Leal Ingrid Reich Aline Reich Patricia Vila Ariadna Medina Berenice Guzman Perla Ramirez Erika Leal |
93.836 |
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