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Epic Swim
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SNZ Events
Epic Swim
High Performance
New Zealand will send an eight-strong swim team to the Rio Olympic Games, announced today at the Sir Owen G. Glenn National Aquatic Centre by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.
The team is led by freestyler Lauren Boyle and breastroke specialist Glenn Snyders, who will both be attending their third Olympic Games, joining Dean Kent and Helen Norfolk as the only other New Zealand swimmers to achieve this feat.
With eight swimmers having achieved the FINA A qualifying time today’s announcement equals the highest number of individual swimmers to qualify for any Olympic Games in more than 20 years, matching eight swimmers in both London 2012 and Sydney 2000.
Three of the eight confirmed today – Boyle (United Swim Club, Auckland), Snyders (North Shore Swimming, Auckland) and Matthew Stanley (Matamata, Waikato) – competed in London. While Bradlee Ashby (Fairfield Swim Club, Waikato), Helena Gasson (North Shore Swimming, Auckland), Matthew Hutchins (Wharenui Swim Club, Christchurch), Corey Main (Howick Pakuranga Swim Club, Counties Manukau) and Emma Robinson (Capital Swim Club, Wellington) will be heading to their first Olympic Games.
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