Artistic swimmers Eva Morris and Nina Brown have been added to the NZ aquatics contingent at the Paris Olympics.
The pair will become the third Kiwi duo to contest the event, after sisters Katie and Lynette Sadleir at Los Angeles 1984 and sisters Lisa and Nina Daniels at Beijing 2008.
New Zealand qualified an artistic swimming spot at Paris, when Morris and Eden Worsley finished 27th in the duet free routine and 34th in technical at the 2023 world aquatics championships.
Morris admits she was inspired to take up the sport, when she chose to follow the Daniels sisters for a primary school project as an eight-year-old.
"It is a dream come true being named on the Paris 2024 Olympic team, I still can't quite believe it," she said. "Nina and I, along with the amazing support from our families and coach Marina Kholod, have been working incredibly hard for the past six months in order to put our best foot forward in Paris.
"I am so proud to represent the sport of artistic swimming and have New Zealand back at the Olympics, 16 years after I was introduced to the sport, as I watched Nina and Lisa Daniels compete at Beijing 2008."
