United States of America

Simone

Simone Biles - Olympics.com

Sweden

Armand

Armand Duplantis - Olympics.com

Mikaela

Mikaela SHIFFRIN

Ilia

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Mayuko FUJIKI

Mayuko

Andrea Fuentes has returned to the Spanish artistic swimming team, taking over as head coach, 11 years after retiring from competition as her nation's joint most decorated Olympic female athlete.
Fuentes arrives off the back of guiding the USA to team silver at Paris 2024, the nation’s first Olympic artistic

Artistic Swimming

PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 31: PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 31: Andrea Fuentes of Team The United States during the artistic swimming press conference on day five of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at  on July 31, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images)

Andrea Fuentes of Team The United States during the artistic swimming press conference on day five of the Olympic Games Paris 2024

Andrea Fuentes returns to Spain artistic swimming team as coach

The artistic swimming competition at Olympic Games Paris 2024 is expected to be more thrilling than ever before. And that's not only because of how spectacular the sport is, but also because a revolution is on its way.
In short, there will be three major changes to artistic swimming at

SANTIAGO, CHILE – NOV 03: El equipo de Cuba ejecuta su presentacion durante la Rutina acrobatica de Equipos en los Juegos Panamericanos Santiago 2023 el 03 de Noviembre en Santiago, Chile./ The Cuba team perform during Teams acrobatic Routine in the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games on November 03 in Santiago, Chile. (Foto de Heuler Andrey/ Santiago 2023 vía Photosport)

Natación artística MEX rutina acrobática Juegos Panamericanos Santiago 2023

Paris 2024: What's the new artistic swimming judging system?

Japan has practically become Spain's sister nation in artistic swimming.
Or sort of like a lucky charm. Although in reality it has nothing to do with luck in this sport. Rather with work - with the succession of repetitions of movements, of hours in and out of the water, of

Mayuko Fujiki with Iris Tió during the World Championship 2023.

Spain's artistic swimming coach Mayuko Fujiki: How to train to be an Olympic artistic swimmer

They want to wow the fans at the 2021 European Aquatics Championships and book a ticket to the Tokyo 2020 Games at the Olympic Qualifiers. That’s why the Spanish artistic swimming team has prepared a unique choreography that mixes flamenco, Japanese music, and sign language. London 2012 bronze and silver medallist Carbonell shares that their coach, Atlanta 1996 synchronized swimming medallist Mayuko Fujiki, taught them sign language in Japanese to help make the routine inclusive: “It’s very nice to use the sport as a way of allowing people to get to know this language,” she shares with us, as the Spain team reveal part of the routine exclusively to Olympics.com and the Tokyo2020 website.

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