Team USA Women Secure Nation’s First Artistic Swimming Medal in Two Decades

Madison Williams | Aug 7, 2024

Members of Team United States compete in the Team Technical Routine on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Aquatics Centre on August 05, 2024 in Paris, France. / Clive Rose/Getty Images

The United States women’s artistic swimming team is taking home a silver medal from the 2024 Paris Olympics.

This is the first time since 2004 that Team USA has medaled in artistic swimming and its best finish since its 1996 silver medal. The U.S. finished with a cumulative score of 914.3421. China won the gold medal with over 81 points above Team USA, and Spain won the bronze medal. It was China’s first time winning the gold medal in the event.

The results were decided on Wednesday after three days consisting of a technical routine, a free routine and an acrobatic routine on each day. Team USA first went viral on Monday when they performed to Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” and moonwalked underwater.

THEY DID THAT 👏

The U.S. artistic swimming team has its best Olympic team finish since 1996!#ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/cp98y31RBK

— Team USA (@TeamUSA) August 7, 2024

With the team competition ending on Wednesday, now Americans Jaime Czarkowski and Megumi Field will look forward to competing in the duet portion, which takes place on Friday and Saturday.