Hamilton has been chosen as the venue for the 2011 New Zealand Long Course Masters Swimming Championships. The dates are Friday, March 25, to Sunday, March 27, in the 50m pool at Waterworld. For more details read on.

Are you thinking of going to the World Championships in July. This time round they are in Goteborg and Boras, Sweeden, so it will be a great opportunity to visit Europe, and swim amongst the worlds elite.

NZ Masters Swimming aren't (and don't normally) organise a team to swim at each of the World Championships - swimmers swim for their club at the meet, and don't represent New Zealand. However that doesn't stop people organising their own touring group. NZ Masters member, Lindy Kelly has kindly offered to be a contact person for those wishing to get together as a team in Sweden. There is the possibility of the purchase of a team uniform, so if you are at all interested - even if you just want to know more about what's being organised, then you can contact Lindy Kelly via the website.

Need a way to keep track of all the changes on the NZMS website? Tired of having to go to the website and sift through all the info to find out what's new? Well now there's a way of getting the latest updates delivered straight to you, as they are added to the website. Get yourself a news feedreader and make life easy for yourself.

FINA have clarified the rules around swim suits for masters atheletes when competing.

Mike Bodger, NZMS Secretary and Masters Swimmer's desire was to be the oldest person to swim across Cook Strait

Support crew member Kirsten Cameron exclusively documents the event for masters swimmers to read.

It’s survived a world war, atomic bombs and economic recessions but it will float to the surface again in Hamilton on April 11. The annual Five Bridges River Swim will be held again in the Waikato River on Sunday, April 11, beginning at 1pm, 71 years after the event first took place in Hamilton. History shows that R. Aiken swam to victory in the first event in 1939 and was presented with the Goldie-Anderson Challenge Cup.

Results for the sSovereign swim series - race 2, Russell to Paihia are now available from the meet organisers

Well we finally cracked it - yes after 20 months of hard slog, we have finally swum around NZ - all 15,134Km's of it. Congratulations to all that took part. Final results for the challenge are below