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By Dave Crampton Gasson’s North Shore clubmate, Wilrich Coetzee, set his fast-finishing radar on range with a second title at the 2015 New Zealand Short Course Championships. The 18-year-old was narrowly beaten on the second night despite his powerful finishes in both the 200m individual medley and ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 11. IT proved a fairytale finish to the State New Zealand Swimming Championships in Auckland tonight, when the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay team bettered the Commonwealth Games standard in the final event. The quartet of Samantha Lee, Samantha Lucie-Smith, Ellen Quirke...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 12. Boyle earns reward for year of swimming brilliance Outstanding performances over the past 12 months by Auckland swimmer Lauren Boyle has been reflected at the State Insurance Swimming New Zealand Awards tonight. Boyle earned four major awards including the overall Sw...

The first night of the 2019 New Zealand Swimming Championships were in full swing. The night's events included the women's 50 free, 200 back, 50 fly and the 1500. On the men's side the event list included the 400 IM, 100 back and 800 free. There were also several swimmers that have qualified for the...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 15. NEW Zealand is putting a major focus on the Pan Pacific championships this summer, allowing its small international racing squad to be in peak form to race the best from the United States, Australia, Japan, Canada and other countries in August. Swimming New Zealand a...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 8. WORLD swim star Lauren Boyle led an outstanding start with five Commonwealth Games qualifying performances on the opening night of the State New Zealand Open Championships with Commonwealth Games qualifying performances in Auckland tonight. Boyle smashed her own natio...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 9. TOP performers Lauren Boyle and Glenn Snyders added further Commonwealth Games qualifying performances on the second night of the State New Zealand Open Championships in Auckland tonight. Boyle clocked the sixth fastest time in the year this year to dominate the 800m ...

Despite losing their high performance director earlier this month, New Zealand swimming appears to be performing well based on times posted on the first day of the New Zealand Open. Six swimmers qualified for the FINA world championships on the first day. That’s one more swimmer than the total numbe...

TAUPO, New Zealand, January 12. WORLD championship representative Kane Radford won his second Oceania and national titles at the State New Zealand Open Water Championships in Taupo today. Radford, who comfortably won the 10km yesterday, had a tight battle in today’s 5km race before out-touching the ...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 28. THE Aussies kept piling it on at the Commonwealth Games with another impressive preliminary session here in Glasgow. LIVE RESULTS Women's 800 freestyle swimoff In a swimoff for the second alternate position in tonight's finals, Emma Robinson of New Zealand took down Scotl...

New Zealand has qualified a men’s freestyle relay team for the World Championships after all four went under the 50 second barrier to highlight the final night of the New Zealand Open Championships in Auckland. The championships, that attracted 230 swimmers from 43 clubs, doubled as the trials for t...

By Dave Crampton, Swimming World Contributor.  Swimming New Zealand has announced changes to its national squad structure, and will reduce its three national squads to two. The National team, headed by new head coach Jerry Olszewski, will require FINA 'B' times, and is targeted towards swimmers aimi...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 26. THE sprinters put on a show in day three prelims of the Commonwealth Games here in Glasgow. LIVE RESULTS Men's 200 fly This morning featured a handful of 1:57s and a few 1:58s to make it into the championship final of the 200 fly. Scotland's Cameron Brodie topped the fiel...

Sickness has forced Emma Robinson to withdraw from competing at the Pan Pacific Championships, which begins on Thursday in Tokyo, Japan. A respiratory tract infection has hampered Robinson’s training in recent weeks and she has been unable to shake off the sickness which has affected her overall fit...

By Dave Crampton Swimming New Zealand is again under fire after changing the date of its 2016 New Zealand Open, which doubles as a qualifying event for Rio. It has changed the date from late April, to March 28 to April 1. This is just two days after the 2016 NCAA Championships, meaning some national...