Today’s action featured the duet tech competition. Scores from the tech routines will be combined with Friday’s free routine scores to determine medalists. Team USA’s Christina Jones (Fremont, Calif.) and Andrea Nott (San Jose, Calif.) will enter the free routine in the top position after posting a score of 94.500. Canada followed with a 94.333 and host country Brazil was in the third place position with a 90.167.

The United States has earned every Pan Am duet title since 1955 with the exception of 1979 and 1999 in which Canada took home the crown.

The Synchronized Swimming competition will include both the team and duet events and will run through July 28. The competition schedule is as follows:

July 26 Tech Team
July 27 Free Duet/Medal Ceremony
July 28 Free Team/Medal Ceremony

Members of the 2007 United States Pan American Synchronized Swimming Team are as follows:
Brooke Abel (Fallbrook, Calif.), Janet Culp (Littleton, Colo.), Kate Hooven (Pleasanton, Calif.), Christina Jones (Fremont, Calif.), Becky Kim (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Meghan Kinney, (Mission Viejo, Calif.) Andrea Nott (San Jose, Calif.), Annabelle Orme (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Jillian Penner (Seattle, Wash.) and Kim Probst (Troy, N.Y.).

For more information or to arrange an interview with an athlete, contact Taylor Payne at 011-55-21 8890-3140 or taylor@usasychro.org. Results will be updated daily on www.usasynchro.org. For complete results visit http://www.rio2007.org/.

Duet Tech
1. Andrea Nott, Christina Jones (United States) 94.500; 2. Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon, Isabelle Rampling (Canada) 94.333; 3. Caroline Hildebrandt, Lara Teixeira (Brazil) 90.167