The Women's duet event at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place at the
Maria Lenk Aquatics Center
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from 14 to 16 August.
The preliminary phase consisted of a free routine, then a technical routine with required elements. The scores from the two routines were added together and the top twelve duets qualified for the final.
The final repeated the same free routine and the score from the final free routine was added to the score from the preliminary technical routine to decide the overall winners.
The medals were presented by
Nicole Hoevertsz
Nicole L. M. Hoevertsz (born 30 May 1964) is a former synchronized swimmer from Aruba (formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles). She competed in the women's duet competitions.
Nicole has been a member of the International Olympic Committee s ...
,
IOC
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, Aruba and
Qiuping Zhang, Bureau Member of
FINA
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.
Qualification
A total of twenty four duets qualified for the event. The eight
National Olympic Committee
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s (NOC) qualified for the team competition were automatically awarded a place for duets. The five best ranked NOCs in each of the continental championships who had not qualified for team event were also awarded a place each. The eleven remaining places were awarded through an Olympic Games qualification tournament, held in Rio at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center 02-6 March 2016.
Schedule
Start list
Both preliminary free and technical routines starting lists were decided by random draw. For the final however, two groups were made: the last six and the first six qualified duets, the former group starting first. Within each group, the best qualified started first (meaning the seventh qualified started first and the first started seventh) with the remaining duets decided by random draw within the group.
Results
Qualification
Final
References
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2016
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