Watersports | Otago Daily Times
3 April 2024
Erika Fairweather has won her maiden swimming world championship title with victory in the women’s 400m freestyle final in Doha. The 20-year-old from Dunedin is the first New Zealander to win a long course…
Watersports | Stuff
22 August 2023
Three-time Paralympic gold medallist swimmer Cameron Leslie, 33, produced a big finish to claim gold in the 50m backstroke S4 final at the Para Swimming World Championships in Manchester, Stuff reports.
A thrilled Leslie said:…
Watersports | Xinhua
23 October 2018
Seventy years after her grandmother swam in the London 1948 Olympic Games, Auckland swimmer Gina Galloway, 17, took up the torch to represent her country at the Buenos Aires 2018
Watersports | Swimming World Magazine
8 August 2017
Freestyle swimming champion, Auckland-born Lauren Boyle, 29, has announced her retirement from competition.
The announcement on Boyle’s Facebook page read:
“And, that’s a wrap. I feel lucky to love the sport after…
Watersports | Swim Swam
1 April 2016
Kiwi Paralympic swimmer Sophie Pascoe has lowered her own S10 100m fly World Record to 1:02.60 on the fourth day of competition at the 2016 New Zealand Open Championships.
“I was hoping for a 1:03…
General | New Zealand Herald (The)
14 August 2014
David Dawson has become the first New Zealander to swim solo the length of Loch Lomond in Scotland, the largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain.
The ex-pat did the swim as…
Watersports | Swimming World
16 August 2010
Seventeen-year-old swimmer Sophie Pascoe has won four medals at the 21 IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with her first gold in the women’s 1m butterfly and in world record time. She knocked…
Obituaries | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
13 September 2008
Celebrated Taranaki-born swimming coach Duncan Laing – who held a four-decade coaching tenure at Dunedin’s Moana Pools has died – aged 77. Laing is best known for coaching swimming star Danyon Loader to gold in the…
Watersports | News24.com
25 September 2007
Wellington freediver Dave Mullins has set a new world record by swimming 244m underwater in a single breath. The 26-year-old broke his own record of two days prior by 18m during an international…
Sport General | BBC News
17 December 2004
World record holding British swimmer Zoe Baker has switched allegiance to NZ, where she has lived and held citizenship since 1999. “I’m hoping to swim for NZ at the Berlin leg of the World Cup in January,”…
Watersports | Fox News
27 June 2000
New Zealand double Olympic swimming gold medalist Danyon Loader has announced his retirement, “I’ve been swimming competitively since 1987 … and the desire and incentive to race has diminished,” said Loader, 25, who won gold medals in…