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High Performance
SNZ Events
Epic Swim
High Performance
The recent long weekend provided no time off for twelve of our young up and coming swim stars as they began their preparations for the Junior Pan Pacific Championships and Youth Olympic Games in August this year.
A group of young New Zealand swimmers recently spent a week at Outward Bound Camp in Anakiwa, Picton where they had the opportunity to challenge themselves and push themselves to their limits.
Some of New Zealand’s Commonwealth Games swimmers had a useful hit-out along with some of Australia's best in Brisbane at the weekend.
Two top Taranaki swimmers have been selected to participate in Sport New Zealand’s talent programme Pathway to Podium.
Three victories from brilliant Christchurch swimmer Matthew Hutchins was the foundation for a powerful showing from the New Zealand age group swim team in the Trans Tasman test series against Australia in Wagga Wagga today.
The annual event pits the best young age group swimmers in New Zealand against two teams from Australia in six tests over six days in three venues – Canberra, Wagga Wagga and Melbourne.
The swimmers will form part of the overall team under the New Zealand Olympic Committee for the Festival on January 17-20, which is expected to attract 1700 athletes under-18 years from 30 nations competing in 17 sports.
New Zealand swimmers qualified for six finals on the opening night of the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney tonight.
Hamilton teenager Bradlee Ashby gained swimming’s first medal on the second day of competition in the pool at the Australian Youth Olympic Games in Sydney today.
While the focus is firmly on this month’s London Olympics, a group of young New Zealand swimmers take on the might of Australia this week to begin the footsteps towards Rio 2016 and beyond.
While the focus is on next month’s Olympics in London, Swimming New Zealand is already casting an eye towards the 2016 Rio Games.
New Zealand swimmers saved the best until last in their 15-medal haul at the Australian Age Group Championships that finished in Brisbane last night.
Hard on the heels of their senior colleagues, New Zealand’s leading teenage swimming talent compete in the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Hawaii starting on Wednesday.
Dunedin swimmer Andrew Trembath was the best of the Kiwis on the opening day of the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Hawaii today.
Waikato’s Bradlee Ashby earned New Zealand first medal on the second night of finals at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Hawaii today.
It was two in a row for teenage Kiwi swimmer Bradlee Ashby at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Hawaii today.
The Junior Pan Pacific Championships comprises full strength teams from the Pacific Rim including USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Three victories from brilliant Christchurch swimmer Matthew Hutchins was the foundation for a powerful showing from the New Zealand age group swim team in the Trans Tasman test series against Australia in Wagga Wagga today.
Five New Zealand swimmers made it through to finals on the third night in the pool at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival.
The Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) is an international multi-sport competition. Over two thousand athletes will compete across seventeen different sports in an event which is part of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games legacy. Competition begins on the 17th January and concludes on the 20th January.
New Zealand’s leading and up-and-coming swimmers get a taste of American-styled collegiate competition in the second Zonal Championships in Auckland on Sunday.
Olympians Matthew Stanley and Daniel Bell along with international experience in both senior and juniors will drive a powerful Aqua Knights swim team for next month’s inaugural national Zonal Championship in Wellington.
Long distance specialists Nathan Capp and Charlotte Webby will add their international racing experience to the Aquaknights swim team for next month’s Zonal Championships in Auckland.
FINA World Championship teammates Bobbi Gichard and Bradlee Ashby will add their experience to the Aquaknights team set to compete at the Zonal Championships this weekend in Auckland.
The Southern Makos dominated the inaugural Swimming New Zealand Zonal Championships taking both senior the junior honours in Wellington today.
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Swimming New Zealand in conjunction with Sport New Zealand, Outward Bound and Bluebridge Cook Strait Ferries are pleased to announce confirmation of our 2014 Youth Outward Bound Camp at Anakiwa, Picton.
Swimming New Zealand has named a 35-strong team to compete in the Oceania Championships in Fiji in June.
New Zealand swimmers produced an outstanding second day of the Oceania Swimming Championships in Fiji.
New Zealand swimmers won seven out of 10 final on the last day of pool competition to take the honours at the Oceania Swimming Championships in Fiji.
A 31-strong New Zealand swim team will contest the 11th Oceania Championships in Suva, Fiji starting on Monday.
It proved close but no podium reward for New Zealand swimmers on the final night in pool competition at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Hawaii today.
The State 2013 New Zealand Secondary School Championships kick off in Hamilton on Friday. This will be the third year the event is run with 123 schools and 478 swimmers competing from Northland to Dunedin.
National champion Bobbi Gichard got the third session of the State 2013 Secondary School Championships underway with a meet record in the 200m backstroke.
Napier Girls High School has won the inaugural girls’ trophy at the third State New Zealand Secondary School Swimming Championships in Hamilton today.
Gabrielle Fa’amausili and Daniel Hunter closed out the Swimming New Zealand Short Course Championships in style tonight with two New Zealand records at the new Sir Owen G Glenn National Aquatic Centre at the AUT Millennium.
Rio Olympian Helena Gasson (North Shore) topped qualifiers in the 50m butterfly on the opening morning of the Swimming New Zealand Short Course Championships in Auckland.
Howick-Pakuranga swimmer Daniel Hunter turned disappointment into celebration when he met the qualifying mark for the FINA World Short Course Championships today.
National records, world championship qualifying performances and some agonisingly close calls were the feature of the third night of finals at the New Zealand Short Course Championships at the Sir Owen G Glenn National Aquatic Centre in Auckland.
Rio Olympian Helena Gasson set a New Zealand record during this morning’s heats of the Swimming New Zealand Short Course Championships in Auckland today.
Howick Pakuranga’s Daniel Hunter has signalled his swimming intentions after completing a record-setting week at the New Zealand Short Course Championships at the Sir Owen G Glenn National Aquatic Centre in Auckland.
Kiwi Olympians Bradlee Ashby and Helena Gasson, along with Australian star Emily Seebohm, highlight an exciting night of swimming in the fourth New Zealand Zonal Championships in Auckland on Saturday.
World junior champion Gabrielle Fa’amausili edged her fellow 14-year-old rival Bobbi Gichard as the pair lit up the pool on the final night of the Mayfair Pools New Zealand Age Group Swimming Championships in Wellington.
Waikato’s Bradlee Ashby made it two from two at the Mayfair Pools National Age Group Swimming Championships in Wellington.
London Olympic hopeful Sophia Batchelor set the tone with one of four records on the opening night of finals at the Mayfair Pools NZ Age Group Swimming Championships in Wellington last night.
Swimming New Zealand is encouraged by both the quality and quantity of performances looking ahead to the Rio Olympics.
Five further qualifying swims for the world championships and two New Zealand records sparked an outstanding third night of finals at the New Zealand Open Championships in Auckland.
Swimming New Zealand has announced a 12-strong team to contest July’s FINA World Championship in Budapest.
The Universiade is an international sporting and cultural festival, staged every two years in a different city around the world, representing both winter and summer competitions. The 2017 summer edition will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from 20 -27 August.
Bradlee Ashby and Sophie Pascoe again stared on day two of the national short course championships, with Ashby setting a new open men’s record and Pascoe continuing her world record form.
Sophie Pascoe has broken two more world Para swimming short course records, whilst 16 year old Ciara Smith upstaged the field on day three of the national short course swimming championships.
Sophie Pascoe and Mary Fisher closed out their national short course championships with a world record each, as youngsters show glimpses of a bright future for swimming in New Zealand.