# Synchronized swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's duet

The women's duet event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, took place inside the Sydney International Aquatic Centre from 24 to 26 September.
The preliminary phase consisted of a technical routine and a free routine. The scores from the two routines were added together and the top 12 duets qualified for the final.
The final consisted of one free routine, the score from the final free routine was added to the score from the preliminary technical routine to decide the overall winners.

## Schedule

All times are Australia Standard Time (UTC+11)
| Date | Time | Round |
| Sunday, September 24, 2000 | 14:00 | Preliminary technical routine |
| Monday, September 25, 2000 | 17:00 | Preliminary free routine |
| Tuesday, September 26, 2000 | 14:00 | Final free routine |

## Results
### Qualification

| Rank | Country | Athlete | Technical | Free | Total |
| 1 | Russia | Olga Brusnikina & Maria Kisseleva | 34.580 | 64.480 | 99.060 |
| 2 | Japan | Miya Tachibana & Miho Takeda | 34.300 | 63.960 | 98.260 |
| 3 | France | Virginie Dedieu & Myriam Lignot | 33.997 | 63.094 | 97.091 |
| 4 | United States | Anna Kozlova & Tuesday Middaugh | 33.810 | 62.920 | 96.730 |
| 5 | Canada | Claire Carver-Dias & Fanny Létourneau | 33.670 | 62.920 | 96.730 |
| 6 | Italy | Maurizia Cecconi & Alessia Lucchini | 33.203 | 61.750 | 94.953 |
| 7 | China | Li Min & Li Yuanyuan | 33.250 | 61.620 | 94.870 |
| 8 | Spain | Gemma Mengual & Paola Tirados | 32.900 | 60.926 | 93.826 |
| 9 | Mexico | Erika Leal & Lilian Leal | 32.527 | 60.190 | 92.717 |
| 10 | South Korea | Jang Yoon-kyeong & Yoo Na-mi | 32.200 | 59.930 | 92.130 |
| 11 | Switzerland | Madeleine Perk & Belinda Schmid | 32.153 | 59.930 | 92.083 |
| 12 | Brazil | Carolina Moraes & Isabela Moraes | 31.593 | 59.280 | 90.873 |
| 13 | Greece | Christina Thalassinidou & Despoina Theodoridou | 31.733 | 58.630 | 90.363 |
| 14 | Ukraine | Iryna Rudnytska & Olesya Zaytseva | 30.987 | 58.196 | 89.183 |
| 15 | Czech Republic | Soňa Bernardová & Jana Rybářová | 31.033 | 57.704 | 88.537 |
| 16 | Australia | Irena Olevsky & Naomi Young | 30.543 | 56.464 | 87.007 |
| 17 | North Korea | Choe Son-yong & Jo Young-hui | 29.867 | 56.204 | 86.071 |
| 18 | Cuba | Kenia Pérez & Yamisleidys Romay | 29.913 | 55.596 | 85.509 |
| 19 | Belarus | Khrystsina Nadezhdina & Natallia Sakharuk | 30.287 | 55.164 | 85.451 |
| 20 | Egypt | Heba Abdel Gawad & Sara Abdel Gawad | 29.727 | 55.294 | 85.021 |
| 21 | Venezuela | Jenny Castro & Virginia Ruíz | 29.750 | 54.036 | 83.786 |
| 22 | Kazakhstan | Aliya Karimova & Galina Shatnaya | 29.120 | 54.254 | 83.374 |
| 23 | Hungary | Zsuzsanna Hámori & Petra Marschalkó | 28.957 | 52.520 | 81.477 |
| 24 | Slovakia | Lívia Allárová & Lucia Allárová | 28.187 | 51.826 | 80.013 |

### Final

| Rank | Country | Athlete | Technical | Free | Total |
| | Russia | Olga Brusnikina & Maria Kisseleva | 34.580 | 65.000 | 99.580 |
| | Japan | Miya Tachibana & Miho Takeda | 34.300 | 64.350 | 98.650 |
| | France | Virginie Dedieu & Myriam Lignot | 33.997 | 63.440 | 97.437 |
| 4 | United States | Anna Kozlova & Tuesday Middaugh | 33.810 | 63.180 | 96.990 |
| 5 | Canada | Claire Carver-Dias & Fanny Létourneau | 33.670 | 62.314 | 95.974 |
| 6 | Italy | Maurizia Cecconi & Alessia Lucchini | 33.203 | 62.184 | 95.387 |
| 7 | China | Li Min & Li Yuanyuan | 33.250 | 61.534 | 94.784 |
| 8 | Spain | Gemma Mengual & Paola Tirados | 32.900 | 61.620 | 94.520 |
| 9 | Mexico | Erika Leal & Lilian Leal | 32.527 | 60.234 | 92.761 |
| 10 | Switzerland | Madeleine Perk & Belinda Schmid | 32.153 | 59.886 | 92.039 |
| 11 | South Korea | Jang Yoon-kyeong & Yoo Na-mi | 32.200 | 59.626 | 91.826 |
| 12 | Brazil | Carolina Moraes & Isabela Moraes | 31.593 | 59.150 | 90.743 |