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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...

Photo Courtesy: Simon Watts/www.bwmedia.co.nz/Swimming New Zealand WELLINGTON, New Zealand, September 3. NORTH Shore swim star Glenn Snyders and Para-Swimmer Mary Fisher were on record-setting form at the New Zealand Short Course Swimming Championships in Wellington today. Snyders, who set a new nat...

By Dave Crampton US-based swimmer Natasha Lloyd has broken a national breaststroke record on the open night of the 2015 New Zealand Short Course Championships, which commenced 11 August, with several NAG records also broken. The championships are the first event at the new Sir Owen G Glenn National ...

By Dave Crampton Eight time para swimming champion Mary Fisher set a new world record on day two of the 2015 New Zealand Short Course Championships in Auckland, with a further NAG record to a 15-year-old open title holder. Fisher won the women’s S11 100m backstroke world record in 1:17.22, breaking ...

By Dave Crampton Para swimming champion Mary Fisher and  teenage sensation Gabrielle Fa’amausili set more records on day three of the 2015 New Zealand Short Course Championships at the new Sir Owen G Glenn National Aquatic Centre in Auckland. Fisher, who broke her fourth short course world record  t...

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 ...

By Dave Crampton Six New Zealand swimmers have so far qualified in eight events for Rio at the conclusion of the New Zealand trials in Auckland, with eight para-swimmers also going under the nomination standard, two of them in world record time. Thirteen US-based New Zealand college swimmers will co...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 10. TWENTY-one year old Mitchell Donaldson came of age as a swimmer tonight, adding the spark for a relay to better the qualifying time for the Commonwealth Games on the penultimate night of finals at the State New Zealand Open Championships in Auckland tonight. Donaldso...

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...

New Zealand para-swimmer Mary Fisher announced her retirement today. The Rio 2016 and London 2012 Paralympic Games gold medallist will be retiring to focus on further adventures. Fisher’s breakout performance came at the London 2012 Paralympic Games; setting a world record and winning four medals .....

By Dave Crampton Swimming World contributor New Zealand Para-swimmer Mary Fisher, one of the sports top ambassadors, has missed out on a nomination to the Halberg Awards after her sporting body, Paralymics New Zealand, (PNZ) omitted to send her prepared entry. The Halberg Awards are the pinnacle spo...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, September 4. PARA-Swimming’s Mary Fisher and Olympian Matthew Stanley produced the headline acts on the third night of finals at the New Zealand Short Course Championships in Wellington tonight. Fisher (Capital) set her third world record of the meet in the 100m individual m...

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...

By Dave Crampton, Swimming World contributor New Zealand paraswimmer Mary Fisher is the Wellington Sportswoman of the Year for the second successive year on the back of multiple successes on both the national and international stage. She was also named the Disabled Sportsperson of the Year for the t...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, September 5. PARA-Swimming stars Mary Fisher and Nikita Howarth continued their world record blitz while Matthew Stanley broke a national record on the penultimate day at the New Zealand Short Course Swimming Championships in Wellington today. Howarth, 15, broke the world ma...