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Epic Swim
High Performance
Emma Robinson will be happy to stick to the pool this year.
Wellington swimmers came away with three awards at this year’s Dominion Post Wellington Sportsperson of the Year Awards at the TSB Arena on 12 June, the biggest haul in the past five years.
The Junior Pan Pacific Championships comprises full strength teams from the Pacific Rim including USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Organised in even years, the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) gather the world's fastest swimmers for a five-day, top-level showdown in 25-metre pool.
The FINA World Championships are contested in a long course (50-meter) pool. The event was first held in 1973 and is now held every two years. From 1978-1998, the World Championships were held every four years, in the even years between Summer Olympic years. From 2001 on, the Championships have been held every two years, in the odd years.
An American Olympic gold medallist will add some sheen to the New Zealand swim scene for the next few weeks.
The 2004 Oceania Swimming Championships will feature 134 swimmers from 11 countries, and the USA State of Hawaii. This is the fifth edition of the Championships, and features competitions in: swimming, open water swimming and synchronized swimming (synchro). The synchro competition will mark the first time the sport has been swum in Fiji.
Organised in even years, the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) gather the world's fastest swimmers for a five-day, top-level showdown in 25-metre pool. The 7th FINA Short Course World Championships will be held at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA from October 7 through October 11, 2004.
Swimming New Zealand has employed the services of two past national swimming representatives to assist in the coaching of the country’s greatest talents.
Swimming New Zealand in conjunction with the New Zealand Olympic Committee are pleased to announce the 2014 Glasgow XX Commonwealth Games Swimming Team:
The 16-strong New Zealand swim team flew out of Auckland last night for their final preparation camp ahead of the London Olympics.
After relatively uneventful flights to Belgium, the team has now settled into a routine at our base at Puyenbroeck and it seems that we are all over our jet lag and have adjusted to the time difference between Europe and home.
Congratulations to the 2013 AquaBlack Team who will travel to the World Championships in Barcelona later this year:
The New Zealand swim team will embark on a demanding schedule in Europe in preparation for July’s FINA World Championships.
Swimming New Zealand featured strongly last night at the Wellington Sports Awards.
Lauren Boyle has wiped a massive amount off her own national 1500m freestyle record to qualify for the final on the second day of heats at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Barcelona.
Wellington swimmer Gareth Kean has become the second Kiwi through to a final at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona today.
Lauren Boyle has joined the great Danyon Loader as the most successful New Zealander swimmer at the FINA World Swimming Championships.
New Zealand’s top swimmers have left the country today to put in some hard yards before Christmas.
The New Zealand swim team moved into double figures in the medal count on the third day of action in the pool at the Oceania championships in New Caledonia.
Last night at the Wellington Town Hall swimming was very well recognised at the Wellington Sportsperson of the Year Awards.
Wellington’s Isaac Foote has won the first medal for New Zealand on the opening day of competition in the Oceania Swimming Championships in Noumea.
The coaches and support staff for the New Zealand swimming team for the London Olympics has been finalised.
High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) has today announced the five coaches who are joining a programme aimed at increasing New Zealand’s pool of world-class coaches.
SNZ in conjunction with Outward Bound and Bluebridge Cook Strait Ferries are pleased to announce confirmation of our Youth Outward Bound Camp at Anakiwa, Picton from 15th – 22nd April 2012.
Wellington 20 year old Gareth Kean has signalled he wants to be a force to be reckoned with in the London Olympics after an impressive qualifying performance on the penultimate night of finals at the State New Zealand Swimming Championships in Auckland tonight.
The country’s top ranked swimmer Glenn Snyders is looking ahead to the London Olympics with lofty goals after completing the trifecta on the fourth night of finals at the State New Zealand Swimming Championships in Auckland tonight.
Wellington 20 year old Gareth Kean sounded a warning shot across the bows of Australia’s best on the final night of the New South Wales Swimming Championships in Sydney tonight.
Wellington backstroker Gareth Kean booked another showdown against Australian’s best on the final night of the New South Wales Swimming Championships in Sydney.
North Shore’s Glenn Snyders continued his strong early season form with a further victory on the second night of finals at the New South Wales Championships in Sydney tonight.
Swimming High Performance breaststroker Glenn Snyders picked up where he left off last year with a winning performance across the Tasman tonight.
The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships is a long course swimming event first held in 1985. The meet is considered to be one of the toughest international swimming competitions outside of the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships, due in part to the presence of swimming power-house nationals like Australia and the United States
The FINA World Championships are contested in a long course (50-meter) pool. The event was first held in 1973 and is now held every two years. From 1978-1998, the World Championships were held every four years, in the even years between Summer Olympic years. From 2001 on, the Championships have been held every two years, in the odd years.
The National High Performance Centre (NHPC) programme is a partnership between Swimming New Zealand, the AUT Millennium Institute and High Performance Sport New Zealand...
The Oceania Swimming Championships are currently held every 2 years, in even years. They are organized by the Oceania Swimming Association, and feature teams representing countries and islands from that region. The championships include open water, pool and synchronised swimming. New Zealand are hosts for the 2014 Oceania Championships.
Swimming Wellington recently held their annual awards recognising swimmers, coaches and volunteers in the region.
The FINA World Championships are contested in a long course (50-meter) pool. The event was first held in 1973 and is now held every two years. From 1978-1998, the World Championships were held every four years, in the even years between Summer Olympic years. From 2001 on, the Championships have been held every two years, in the odd years.
Olympic and Commonwealth Games swim coach Gary Hurring will take up a new role as Swimming New Zealand’s talent identification and development coach.
A group of New Zealand age group swimmers will get a taste of international racing next week as they head across the ditch for the Australian Age Group Championships.
The Harlequins made it a clean sweep to retain honours at the New Zealand Zonal Championships at the Sir Owen G Glenn Aquatic Centre in Auckland.
Eleven clubs from across the Wellington and Manawatu Regions will join together as the All Stars to compete at the 2015 Zonal Championships in Auckland next month.
The leading New Zealand-based swimmers and the best up-and-comers will join forces in the annual American-styled Zonal Championships in Auckland on Saturday.
Olympians Gareth Kean, Samantha Lucie-Smith and Natasha Hind lead a powerful All Stars swim team for next month’s inaugural national Zonal Championship in Wellington.
Swimming New Zealand is pleased to announce the support staff and coaches for the 16th FINA World Championships and the 2015 World University Games.
The 2015 New Zealand Swim Coaches and Teachers Conference recently took place in Rotorua and recognised a number of people for their contribution to swimming in the last year.
Age group teams were selected for the 2015 SAL State Teams Age Short Course in Canberra, Australia at the 2015 New Zealand Short Course Championships. The SAL State Teams Age Short Course will take place from 23-28 September, 2015.
Lauren Boyle swam herself into New Zealand swimming history at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia today.
New Zealand has completed its campaign with two medals and four finalists at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia.
The Commonwealth Youth Games are a small-scale version of the Commonwealth Games, designed for the youth of the 71 Commonwealth countries. A maximum number of 1,000 competitors are invited to participate from every Commonwealth Games Association. The fifth edition of the Games will take place in Samoa from 5-12 September 2015.
The five-strong New Zealand team completed an encouraging performance at the fifth FINA World Junior Championships in Singapore.
World junior championship medallists Gabrielle Fa’amausili and Bobbi Gichard will head an eight-strong New Zealand swim team for the fifth Commonwealth Youth Games starting on Monday in Samoa.
World junior championship medallist Bobbi Gichard led the New Zealand swimmers on the first day of heats at the fifth Youth Commonwealth Games in Samoa today.
Kiwi swimmers Bobbi Gichard and Wilrich Coetzee both grabbed their second gold medals on the penultimate night of finals at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa.
World junior swimming champion Gabrielle Fa’amausili fittingly rounded out New Zealand’s 10th and final medal at the Youth Commonwealth Games in Samoa.
More than 150 age group swimmers and their coaches have attended camps around the country over September and October as part of the Swimming New Zealand (SNZ) High Performance Development Programme.
Swimming New Zealand’s National Talent Identification and Development Coach, Gary Hurring, recently visited the Counties Manukau region for a coaching clinic.
2016 Georgina Hope Foundation Australian Age Championships
South Island swimmers who have qualified for Swimming New Zealand’s National Squads have recently had a visit from SNZ High Performance Athlete Development Coach Gary Hurring.
American Jerry Olszewski will become Swimming New Zealand’s new national head coach, taking up the role in September.
Swimming New Zealand has announced the coaches for the Rio Olympics, filling the three positions as advised by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.
An Olympic theme took hold at the recent National Talent Identification Squad Camp at the AUT Millennium in Auckland.
Olympic veteran Glenn Snyders is looking forward to his favoured event on the opening day of the Rio competition in the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.
World Junior Champion Gabrielle Fa’amausili will lead a 39-strong Kiwi swim team across the Tasman to take on Australia’s best in the 2015 State Teams Age competition in Canberra this weekend.
The Australian State Teams Age Short Course Championships will take place from 23-25 September, 2016.
The 16th FINA World Championships will take place from 24 July to 9 August, 2015 in Kazan, Russia. The event was first held in 1973 and is now held every two years. From 1978-1998, the World Championships were held every four years, in the even years between Summer Olympic years. From 2001 on, the Championships have been held every two years, in the odd years.
The Australian Age Group Swimming Championships comprises the top Age Group Swimmers in Australia and New Zealand has been lucky enough to send a team to challenge.
Thirteen-year-old Brearna Crawford led the way for the New Zealand team competing at the 2016 Australian State Teams Short Course Championships on the weekend.
Swimming New Zealand’s new national head coach Jerry Olszewski wants to build a new culture, new habits and new competition cycle for the sport in this country.
The 2nd FINA World Youth Swimming Championships, or 2008 Youth Worlds, are from July 8–13 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. The Championships will be held at the Aquatics Center of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Centro Acuático Olímpico Universitario). Male participants have to be 18 years or younger on the 31 December 2008 and female participants have to be 17 years or younger on the 31 December 2008.
There were three more swimmers qualify for the FINA World Junior Championships on the second day of the Mayfair Pools New Zealand Age Group Championships in Wellington today.
2017 Georgina Hope Foundation Australian Age Championships
New Zealand’s young swimming talent is in a healthy state according to former Commonwealth Games and World Championship medallist, Gary Hurring.
New Zealand will send a bumper 23-strong swim team across the Tasman for the prestigious Australia Age Swimming Championships in Brisbane starting on Sunday.
The Swimming New Zealand Legends Relay is back in 2017 with some of New Zealand’s past swimming greats once again coming together to raise funds for a great cause.
The Swimming New Zealand Legends Relay is back in 2016 with some of New Zealand’s past swimming greats once again coming together to raise funds for a great cause.
Congratulations to all members that have been recognised in various Halls of Fame
Included in this section are members that have won awards at the Halberg Awards.
