Shurochkina wins Olympic gold in team synchronised swimming at Rio 2016
Maria Shurochkina was part of the Russian team that won the team synchronised swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympics on 19 August.
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On 19 August 2016, Russia won the team event in synchronised swimming at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Maria Shurochkina was a member of the squad that took the gold medal, adding an Olympic title to her career.
The Russian team had dominated the discipline for years and went to Rio as the clear favourite. Its routines combined technical precision with elaborate choreography, and the squad finished ahead of China, which took silver, and Ukraine, which took bronze.
The victory extended Russia's long winning streak in the Olympic team event, which stretched back to the early 2000s. It also made Shurochkina one of the country's celebrated Olympic champions in the sport. Her status as a gold medallist is the reason her later injury in a Moscow apartment fire drew wide public attention in Russia.
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