Swimming New Zealand
| Swimming New Zealand | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1890 |
| president | Bruce Cotterill |
| societies | 181 |
| Members | 12,886 |
| Association headquarters | Wellington |
| Official languages) | English |
| Homepage | http://www.swimmingnz.org.nz/ |
Swimming New Zealand (short SNZ; German Swimming New Zealand ) is the national umbrella organization for swimming in New Zealand , which has its main office in the Pelorus Trust Sports House in the capital Wellington . Its members include over 12,000 active members (as of April 2011) in 181 clubs that take part in competitions in 16 regions.
Founded in 1890 under the name New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association , 15 years later the association hosted the first national championships in Wanganui . New Zealand swimmers have also participated in the Summer Olympics since 1912 and in the Empire Games (now the Commonwealth Games ) and the World Swimming Championships since the 1920s . This includes New Zealand's most successful swimmer, Danyon Loader , who swam a world record and won two gold medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta . Because of his success, he was in the international 2003 Hall of Fame in swimming ( International Swimming Hall of Fame ) in the US Fort Lauderdale added. Other Olympic medal winners of the association are Malcolm Champion (gold in Stockholm 1912 ), Paul Kingsman and Anthony Mosse (both bronze in Seoul 1988 ) and Jean Stewart (bronze in Helsinki 1952 ).
Swimming New Zealand is a member of the National Sports Confederation Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC), the World Swimming Federation FINA and a founding member of its continental association, the Oceania Swimming Association from 1991.
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Swimming New Zealand Board . Swimming New Zealand , accessed May 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Swimming New Zealand: Organizational Structure , accessed April 27, 2011
- ↑ Swimming New Zealand: History , accessed April 27, 2011 (English)
- ↑ Swimming New Zealand: International Swimming Hall of Fame , accessed April 27, 2011 (English)
- ↑ Swimming New Zealand: Medalists , accessed April 27, 2011.
- ^ List of National Sports Organizations . Sport and Recreation New Zealand , archived from the original on January 9, 2012 ; accessed on February 2, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).