Swimming New Zealand 

Swimming New Zealand is the national organisation representing swimming. Our goals are to deliver:

  • Resources to effectively manage the sport of swimming
  • Competitive success
  • World class teaching standards
  • Valued (membership) services
  • Effective promotion of swimming to maximise the sport's profile

Why Swim?

New Zealand is an island nation and it is essential that every New Zealander has the skills necessary to survive in the water - swimming is a fundamental life skill
Swimming is exciting, it's refreshing, it's a year round activity, it's great for fitness, it's great for after sport recovery (just ask the All Blacks and the Warriors), it's a Kiwi tradition!
Swimming is also a great competitive sport and one of the most watched sports at the Commonwealth and Olympic Games!
Being able to swim offers you the opportunity to do so much more e.g. surfing, sailing, wake boarding, water skiing, diving, and many more wonderful water-related activities
If you can swim, you'll no longer be afraid of the water, you'll embrace it!
Swimming is New Zealand's third most popular recreational activity with 34.8 percent e.g. 1,139,812 New Zealanders choosing swimming as their preferred activity (SPARC 2007/8 Active New Zealand Survey). Only walking and gardening are more popular! New Zealanders swim for a variety of reasons including sport, recreation and the many health benefits.

Swimming New Zealand's values

Swimming New Zealand has a responsibility to uphold the values it wishes the entire swimming community to embrace. Swimming New Zealand will:

  • Be open and honest
  • Deliver on its promises
  • Treat everyone with fairness and respect
  • Be passionate about excellence, best practice and achieving world class results
  • Work as a team and collaborate for the benefit of its stakeholders
  • Take ownership and hold itself accountable for all of its actions

Swimming New Zealand is proud of the role swimming plays in the community and how our sport allows us to make special connections with New Zealanders every day.

Who will be New Zealand's top ocean swimming club this year?

If you belong to a Swimming New Zealand club, simply select the name of your club into the box on the Sovereign Ocean Swim Series online entry form and your club will be allocated points for your ocean swim. The club with the most points following race six will be awarded the Swimming New Zealand Cup. The second and third-placed clubs will receive commemorative plaques.

For more information on Swimming New Zealand and the sport of swimming, visit www.swimmingnz.org.nz