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Synchronized Swimming Medalists

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Synchronized swimming became an Olympic sport in 1984 with solo and duet competition. In 1996, they were replaced by a single team event. Duet competition was restored to the Olympic program in 2000.

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Duet

YearGoldScoreSilverScoreBronzeScore
1984Candy Costie
& Tracie Ruiz, USA
195.584Sharon Hambrook
& Kelly Kryczka, CAN
194.234Saeko Simura
& Miwako Motoyoshi, JPN
187.992
1988Michelle Cameron
& Carolyn Waldo, CAN
197.317Sarah Josephson
& Karen Josephson, USA
197.284Miyako Tanaka
& Mikako Kotani, JPN
190.159
1992Sarah Josephson
& Karen Josephson, USA
192.715Penny Vilagos
& Vicky Vilagos, CAN
189.394Fumiko Okuno
& Aki Takayama, JPN
186.868
1996Not held    
2000Olga Brusnikina
& Mariya Kisyelyeva, RUS
99.580Miya Tachibana
& Miho Takeda, JPN
98.650Virginie Dedieu
& Myriam Lignot, FRA
97.437
2004Anastasia Davydova & Anastasia Ermakova, RUS99.334Miya Tachibana & Miho Takeda, JPN98.417Alison Bartosik & Anna Kozlova, USA96.918

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Team

YearGoldScoreSilverScoreBronzeScore
1996United States99.720Canada98.367Japan97.753
2000Russia99.146Japan98.860Canada97.357
2004Russia99.501Japan98.501United States97.418

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Solo

YearGoldScoreSilverScoreBronzeScore
1984Tracie Ruiz, USA198.467Carolyn Waldo, CAN195.300Miwako Motoyoshi, JPN187.050
1988Carolyn Waldo, CAN200.150Tracie Ruiz-Conforto, USA197.633Mikako Kotani, JPN191.850
1992Kristen Babb-Sprague, USA & Sylvie Fréchette, CAN191.848 191.717   Fumiko Okuno, JPN187.056
 Joint gold medal awarded in October of 1993 because of a scoring discrepancy

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