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  •   Home > News > Sports >  Subscribe to NZCity's Swimming articles  Swimming
    Olympic swimmer Lewis Clareburt has set the fastest time in the world this year in the men's 400 metres individual medley at the Sydney Open Champs
     12 May 2024
    Olympic swimmer Lewis Clareburt has set the fastest time in the world this year in the men's 400 metres individual medley at the Sydney Open Champs
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    Cameron Leslie, a multiple Paralympic champion and world-record holder, heads a team of five swimmers to the Paris Games
    9 May 2024: Cameron Leslie, a multiple Paralympic champion and world-record holder, heads a team of five swimmers to the Paris Games... more
    The operators of an Auckland swimming pool are looking at the sequence of events that landed a toddler in hospital, in a serious condition
    7 May 2024: The operators of an Auckland swimming pool are looking at the sequence of events that landed a toddler in hospital, in a serious condition... more
    A person's in hospital in a critical condition after a water incident at a Mount Albert swimming pool
    4 May 2024: A person's in hospital in a critical condition after a water incident at a Mount Albert swimming pool... more
    A pair of recent world champions headline the New Zealand swimming team for this year's Olympics
    30 Apr 2024: A pair of recent world champions headline the New Zealand swimming team for this year's Olympics... more
    For the first time, a Kiwi swimmer has clocked a 50 metre freestyle time of less than 22 seconds
    13 Apr 2024: For the first time, a Kiwi swimmer has clocked a 50 metre freestyle time of less than 22 seconds... more
    Kane Follows has lit up the pool on night four at the New Zealand Swimming Champs in Hastings
    13 Apr 2024: Kane Follows has lit up the pool on night four at the New Zealand Swimming Champs in Hastings... more
    Lewis Clareburt's easily won the national 200 metres butterfly title with a time of one minute 57.06, at the nationals in Hastings
    12 Apr 2024: Lewis Clareburt's easily won the national 200 metres butterfly title with a time of one minute 57.06, at the nationals in Hastings... more
    Frustration from swimmer Lewis Clareburt, despite setting at New Zealand record at the national championships in Hastings
    12 Apr 2024: Frustration from swimmer Lewis Clareburt, despite setting at New Zealand record at the national championships in Hastings... more
    To the national swimming championships in Hastings..
    11 Apr 2024: To the national swimming championships in Hastings..... more

     Most Popular Recent Swimming News
     13 Jan: A sewer leak at a popular Christchurch swimming spot has been traced to bottles being flushed down toilets, blocking the septic system ++++++++
     17 Jan: A number of black - do not swim - flags have been issued for Auckland beaches ++++++++
     30 Jan: Why your sunscreen application might be putting your good intentions to waste ++++++
     04 Feb: It could be months before Wellingtonians are given the all-clear for swimming at southern coastal areas - where sewage is leaking ++++

     Swimming NewsLinks
      6 Feb: ‘quite frightening’: 13-year-old recounts gruelling 4-hour swim after family swept out to sea (Stuff.co.nz)
      6 Feb: ‘relief’ as first kids start safe swimming lessons thanks to stuff reader donations (Stuff.co.nz)
      5 Feb: ‘it’s just a fun, fun house’: home has tunnel from living room to pool and ‘pods’ in the bush (Stuff.co.nz)
      3 Feb: Boy makes 'superhuman' swim to save family swept out to sea off australia (RadioNZ)
      3 Feb: Get your hands on one of the last-ever bags of jaffas in nz and support a great cause (Stuff.co.nz)
      2 Feb: Olympian michael klim on illness, identity and the partner who stayed (RadioNZ)
      30 Jan: Swimming australia president to fight eight-month suspension for ‘improper conduct’ (Sydney Morning Herald)
      27 Jan: Video shows man swimming in auckland mall’s rooftop water feature (Stuff.co.nz)
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