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

Women's duet
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Women's duet; at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
	Aquatics Center in Beijing
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Date	18–20 August 2008
Competitors	48 from 24 nations
Winning points	99.251
Medalists
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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.

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

Preliminary

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

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

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