The Women's duet event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center 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, IOC member, Aruba and Qiuping Zhang, Bureau Member of FINA.
Qualification
A total of twenty four duets qualified for the event. The eight National Olympic Committees (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 DateRound14 August 2016Preliminary Free Routine15 August 2016Preliminary Technical Routine16 August 2016Final Free Routine
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 RankCountryAthleteTechnicalFreeTotal1Natalia Ishchenko & Svetlana Romashina96.457798.0667194.52442Huang Xuechen & Sun Wenyan95.368896.0667191.43553Yukiko Inui & Risako Mitsui93.121494.4000187.52144Lolita Ananasova & Anna Voloshyna93.135893.5333186.66915Ona Carbonell & Gemma Mengual92.502493.7667186.26916Linda Cerruti & Costanza Ferro90.441291.1333181.57457Jacqueline Simoneau & Karine Thomas89.291690.0667179.35838Margaux Chrétien & Laura Augé86.282486.8667173.14919Anita Alvarez & Mariya Koroleva86.461286.4333172.894510Evangelia Papazoglou & Evangelia Platanioti85.355086.1000171.455011Karem Achach & Nuria Diosdado84.926885.7333170.660112Anna-Maria Alexandri & Eirini-Marina Alexandri85.063785.2667170.330413Luisa Borges & Maria Eduarda Miccuci83.300884.0333167.334114Sophie Giger & Sascia Kraus83.336683.5667166.903315Alexandra Nemich & Yekaterina Nemich81.468681.4000162.868616Estefanía Álvarez & Mónica Arango80.336380.4667160.803017Katie Clark & Olivia Federici80.765079.9667160.731718Alžběta Dufková & Soňa Bernardová80.064080.5333160.597319Etel Sánchez & Sofia Sánchez79.482979.8333159.316220Anastasia Gloushkov & Ievgeniia Tetelbaum79.448878.9000158.348821Iryna Limanouskaya & Veronika Yesipovich78.991379.0000157.991322Nada Daabousová & Jana Labáthová78.360777.7000156.060723Samia Ahmed & Dara Hassanien76.530677.6000154.130624Nikita Pablo & Rose Stackpole73.636074.7667148.4027
Final RankCountryAthletesTechnicalFreeTotalNatalia Ishchenko & Svetlana Romashina96.457798.5333194.9910Huang Xuechen & Sun Wenyan95.368897.0000192.3688Yukiko Inui & Risako Mitsui93.121494.9333188.05474Lolita Ananasova & Anna Voloshyna93.135894.0000187.13585Ona Carbonell & Gemma Mengual92.502494.1333186.63576Linda Cerruti & Costanza Ferro90.441292.3667182.80797Jacqueline Simoneau & Karine Thomas89.291690.6000179.89168Margaux Chrétien & Laura Augé86.282487.9667174.24919Anita Alvarez & Mariya Koroleva86.461287.5333173.994510Evangelia Papazoglou & Evangelia Platanioti85.355086.5000171.855011Karem Achach & Nuria Diosdado84.926886.0667170.993512Anna-Maria Alexandri & Eirini-Marina Alexandri85.063785.5333170.5970
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