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Clareburt & Fairweather Joined By Speedy Newcomers On New Zealand’s Olympic Roster

New Zealand’s roster is set for the 2024 Olympic Games taking place July 27th to August 4th at the Paris La Defense Arena, the largest indoor events venue in Europe.

The roster includes 9 swimmers, 5 women and 4 men, poised to improve upon the nation’s medal-less performance in Tokyo 3 years ago.

Reigning world champions Lewis Clareburt and Erika Fairweather lead the charge, with the former having won the 400m IM in Doha while the latter topped the women’s 400m free podium. Fairweather is also coming off 200m free silver and 800m free bronze at that February competition.

Seasoned swimmers Clareburt and Fairweather commented on their excitement of having been selected to their 2nd Olympic squad.

“I’m so keen to get to Paris. It’s always special getting to compete at this level, so much hard work goes on behind the scenes to prepare for the Olympics and I can’t wait to showcase it,” said Fairweather.

Clareburt stated, “Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be an Olympian, let alone going to my second Games. It’s a huge privilege, I can’t wait to represent New Zealand and put the pūkana on the world stage!”

Newcomer Hazel Ouwehand will look to continue her momentum from last month’s Olympic Trials where the 24-year-old established national records in the 50m fly (25.88) and 100m fly (57.43).

“Going to the Olympics has been a dream of mine since I was super young so it’s pretty special to see it realised. I’m really excited for the Games, it’s going to be an amazing field of athletes and I can’t wait to put all my hard work and training into action,” the Phoenix Aquatics ace conveyed.

Taiko Torepe-Ormsby is another rising star to watch, with the University of Wisconsin swimmer having become the fastest Kiwi in history via the time of 21.86 he ripped in the men’s 50m free at Trials.

 

Name
Club
Coach

Club 37

Mitch Nairn

Caitlin Deans

Neptune & Swim Dunedin

Lars Humer

Neptune & Swim Dunedin

Lars Humer

Kane Follows

Neptune & Swim Dunedin

Lars Humer

Cameron Gray

Coast

Michael Weston

Phoenix Aquatics

David Lyles

Eve Thomas

Coast (& St Peter’s Western)

Dean Boxall

Wharenui (& University of Wisconsin)

Cauli Bedran

Laticia Transom

Club 37 (& Brisbane Grammar)

Bobby Jovanovich

Name
Club/Organisation
Team Role

Gary Francis

Swimming NZ

Team Leader

Lars Humer

Swim Dunedin

Coach

David Lyles

Phoenix Aquatics

Coach

Mitch Nairn

Club 37

Coach

Michael Weston

Coast

Coach

Matt Ingram

HPSNZ

Performance Analyst

Graeme Maw *

Swimming NZ

Team Manager (Mallorca)

Alex Lowen *

Swimming NZ

Team Physio

Vijay Vallabh *

Swimming NZ

Team Physio

Quotes courtesy of Swimming New Zealand.

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Bring Back the ISL
6 months ago

Aimie Canny?!?

Peter Watts
6 months ago

More coaching and support staff than swimmers. Can’t help but wonder if New Zealand Swimming’s priorities are right?

Bob
Reply to  Braden Keith
6 months ago

Helena Gasson would be the one who made a time but isn’t selected.

Pier Paolo
Reply to  Braden Keith
4 months ago

Andrew Jeffcoat had OQT but made in Fukuoka

Bob
Reply to  Peter Watts
6 months ago

A bunch of the staff are for the pre-camp not for the games themselves (the asterisks). HPSNZ provide whole NZ Team support staff at the games.

Last edited 6 months ago by Bob
anty75
6 months ago

Swimswam, I have an idea for you, make an interview with Igor Polyansky. He is legend of this sport, world record holder multiple times, world champion and Olympic champion. In the 90-s he immigrated with his family to New Zealand and now is a swimming coach there. I think Paul Kingsman, in 1988 Olympics in Seoul Polyansky won 200 back and NZ backstroker Kingsman finished third, helped him with this life-changing move. But you can ask him all sorts of different question, from battles with David Berkoff and revolution in the backstroke to state doping in Soviet Union. Also very interesting are his views about Soviet sports system compared to Australian and NZ system.

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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