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Your Road to the Olympic Synchronized Swimming Team

To become an Olympic synchronized swimmer takes time, discipline, and talent. You must practice for many hours over many years. You must dedicate yourself to the sport and be diligent about attending practice and doing your best at every one of those practices. You must have some level of talent, and then you must further develop and perfect it.

Olympic Synchronized Swimming Medalists

Olympic Synchronized Swimming Medalists

Olympic Synchronized Swimming Central

Synchronized swimmers are incredible athletes. They have strength, endurance, grace and rhythm. They hold their breath for long periods of time while performing intricate, coordinated dance movements in the swimming pool. To get to the Olympic games takes years of hard work. To win a medal? Work, talent, skill, desire and more.

What is Olympic Synchronized Swimming?

What is Olympic Synchronized Swimming? Once called water ballet, it is moving through the water with intricate maneuvers, synchronized with other swimmers and with music. Synchronized Swimming, a women's only sport at the Olympic level, was an exhibition sport at the Olympic Games from 1948 to 1968, then became a full-fledged Summer Olympic sport in 1984.