In a dominant performance, the group scored 196.0979 across the technical and free routines. 

China finished second, more than two and a half points in arrears. 

The team also recorded the highest score in both disciplines, 97.2979 in the technical routine and 98.8000 in the free routine.

Russia has won every artistic swimming team gold since Sydney 2000.

Leading the team was Romashina, 31, and Kolesnichenko, 27, who won the duet event earlier in the Games. 

The former has now won gold medals at four successive Olympics, including three successive duet titles at London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 and four successive team golds. 

She is now a seven-times gold medallist, becoming the most successful artistic swimmer in Olympic history.

Kolesnichenko has also won multiple gold medals at five World Championships, including at Gwangju 2019, when she won the solo technical routine, duet technical routine, duet free routine and free combination categories.

She was named the International Swimming Federation Female Artistic Swimmer of the Year in 2017, before sharing the award with Romashina in 2019.

Chigireva is 26 and made her international debut in 2013.

She was part of the team that won gold in Rio and helped her country to finish first in the team free routine and team technical routine at the last four International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships, also clinching gold in the free routine combination at Barcelona 2013, Kazan 2015 and Gwangju 2019.

Chigireva was also part of the team technical routine which became European champions at Budapest in 2020.

Twenty-four-year-old Goliadkina was making her Olympics debut but had already won five gold medals at the World Championships in Budapest in 2017 and Gwangju in 2019 across the team technical routine, team free routine and free routine combination.

Goliadkina also won three gold medals at the European Aquatics Championships in Glasgow in 2018 and Budapest in 2020.

The team’s youngest artistic swimmer was 21-year-old Polina Komar, who made her national debut in 2017.

Komar continued her unblemished record on the highest stage on her first appearance at the Olympics, having already earned five gold medals at the World Championships and three at the European Championships.

Patskevich, 32, is a more experienced Olympian, having also secured gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016.

She debuted at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, where she won gold in the team free routine and team technical routine.

She did likewise at Shanghai 2011, Barcelona 2013 and Kazan 2015, also triumphing in the free routine combination at all three championships, while victories in the duet technical routine and freestyle routine at Budapest 2017 took her World Championships gold medal tally up to 13.

Shishkina, also 32, has also won her third Olympic gold medal and was part of the gold-medal winning teams at the World Championships with Patskevich, winning 14 golds in all.

She took a break from the sport after Rio 2016, before winning gold in the team technical routine and free routine and free routine combination at Gwangju 2019.

Victory at Budapest in 2020 means she has a European Championships gold to go with her 14 from the World Championships.

Shurochkina picked up her second gold medal in as many Olympic Games.

Since making her debut in 2013, the 26-year-old has also won 11 World Championships golds and three European Championships golds.