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  • Channel Swimming Association Ltd

    Focusing mainly on the English Channel course, this website has useful definitions, rules and some background information on long-distance swimming.

  • Cook Strait swim

    This site provides information for those who want to attempt a Cook Strait swim. It includes a full list of people who have completed the crossing, and information on recent swims.

  • FINA official website

    This website of the Fédération Internationale de Natation includes some useful definitions relating to open water swimming, and also lists international events.

  • New Zealand Masters Swimming

    This is the website of the New Zealand Masters Swimming Inc., the organisation for ‘past age-group champions and non-competitive swimmers’. It lists a number of competitive open water swimming events.

  • New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame

    The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame site links to short biographies of Barrie Devenport, Meda McKenzie and Phillip Rush, who are all inductees.

More suggestions and sources

    • Baldwin, Olive. A great New Zealand adventure, 1990: retracing the legendary swim by Hinepoupou from Kapiti Island, across Cook Strait to D’Urville Island via the outer Marlborough Sounds. Paraparaumu: Fields, 1990.

    • Bisley, Karen. ‘Physiology of cold water immersion in marathon swimmers – a literature review.’ New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine 27, no. 3 (Spring 1999): 36–40.

    • Dean, Penny Lee. Open water swimming: a complete guide for distance swimmers and triathletes. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics, 1998.

    • MacIntyre, David. Cook’s wild strait: the interisland story. Wellington: Reed, 1983.



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