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Ross Bragg’s involvement with swimming began in 1980 supporting his daughters at the Nelson South Swimming Club. This led to both technical and administrative involvement...

Amy Coulton of the Nelson Swimming Club brought home gold medals in the 200 Free and 400 Free for 14-year-old girls at the national Division II meet held in Dunedin last week.

Amaka Gessler of the Motueka Swimming Club has been selected to represent New Zealand at the London Olympics, and is expected to compete in the 4x200m freestyle relay.

Blenheim swimmer Sara Gane is a NZ Age Group champion for 2012, dominating the 200m breaststroke in the 12-13 year old age group. Gane won the event with a time of 2:45:90, nearly 2 full seconds ahead of the 2nd place finisher, with the bronze medalist a further 2 secs back. Gane also captured the silver medal in the 100m breastroke and bronze in the 50m breaststroke.

Thanks to a grant from the NZ Community Trust, we have been able to upgrade the swimming software for Swimming Nelson Marlborough and the five main clubs.

Sam McKenzie of the Nelson Swimming Club won the gold medal in the 50 metre freestyle for 12-year-old boys at the Junior National swimming meet held in Wellington this weekend.
McKenzie’s time of 28.33 sec beat his own personal best by 1.26 seconds and set a new Nelson-Marlborough record for 12-year-olds.

Grace Woodall of Nelson South set two new Swimming Nelson Marlborough open records (i.e. swimmers of any age) in the Women's 100m and 200m backstroke, and a record for 16-yr-olds in the 800m free, and 16 other regional records fell as swimmers take advantage of the fast new pool in Blenheim.

Ellie Rukuwai of Nelson South won the best female swimmer for the 4th year running at Swimming Nelson Marlborough's Winter Meet held this weekend at Blenheim's Stadium 2000.

Toby Lloyd of Blenheim broke two Nelson-Marlborough swimming records on his way to capturing best male swimmer.

Standout 13-year-old swimmer Sara Gane of Blenheim evened the score last night at the National Short Course Age Group Championships in Wellington, grabbing gold in the 200 m breaststroke for 13-year-old girls in 2:42.52. Her time was just 0.02 sec faster than rival ...

Nelson-Marlborough swimmers came home with a clutch of medals at the Div II meet held in Rotorua this week. Nick Kerry of Blenheim led the effort, winning three events, the 400 IM, 200 Breast and 100 Fly, and setting several Nelson-Marlborough records ...

The 101st Annual General Meeting of Swimming Nelson Marlborough will start at 10 am at Stadium 2000 in Blenheim on Sunday 31 July 2011. All Board positions are filled each year at the AGM - nomination forms...

From Swimming NZ...
The 2011 Division II Competition will now take place at the Rotorua Aquatic Centre from the 20 - 23 July in the term two school holidays. There will be a warm up session at the pool from 3-7pm on 19 July.

Swimming Nelson Marlborough sent 7 swimmers to the National Age Group Champs in Wellington last week.

Almost everyone got personal bests, Ellie, William, Fraser and Ryan made finals, and Ellie came 3rd in 50 breast and 2nd in 100 breast. The boys regional 200 medley relay team also made the finals d

A Centenary Dinner will be held in Blenheim on 7 May 2011 to celebrate 100 years for Swimming Nelson Marlborough, with Jan Cameron of Swimming NZ as the keynote speaker. RSVP by 2 May. Detail at link below.

Due to the major earthquake in Christchurch and the tragedy that is still unfolding for many of the families there, the SI Country & Town meet scheduled for Greymouth this weekend (and hosted by Swimming Canterbury West Coast) has been postponed until 2-3 April. The Div II meet, scheduled for 16-19 March at QEII pool in Christchurch, has been indefinitely postponed...

Sara Gane of the Blenheim Swim Club was on fire at the NZ Juniors Swim Meet, taking home gold in the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke events for 12 year old girls.

Fifteen new records were set at the SNM Age Groups meet held on 5, 12-13 February, including 5 new records by Ellie Rukuwai of Nelson South Swimming Club, 4 by Sara Gane of Blenheim and 3 by Fraser Neill of Nelson Swimming Club.

Nelson Marlborough swimmers had one of their best outings ever at the recent Canterbury West Coast championships, with several swimmers bringing home gold medals and breaking some SNM records in the process.