Tag: Lauren Boyle
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Lauren Boyle out of World Swimming Championships due to hip surgery
New Zealand’s best swimmer Lauren Boyle will miss next month’s FINA World Swimming Championships due to hip surgery. The 29-year-old withdrew from the competition, which starts in Budapest on July 20, on Thursday, after opting to get much-needed surgery on her hip, which has troubled her since before last year’s Rio Olympics. The 2015 World…
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Speedo launches star-studded Airswim campaign
Can’t stop swimming even when you’re not in the pool? Upload your Airswim for a chance to feature in our final edit of the best swims on dry land! How to enter: Upload your Airswim to Instagram or Twitter, @speedo and use the hashtag #NeverStopSwimming Featuring Mack Horton (AUS), Ryan Lochte (USA), Ye Shiwen (CHN),…
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Team Speedo video ǀ Interview with swimmer Lauren Boyle
New Zealand native and Team Speedo swimmer, Lauren Boyle, chats to us about cartoons, Hawaii and drinking too much coffee. Watch the video to find out more about the Commonwealth Games record holder and gold medallist.
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Kiwi swimmer Lauren Boyle welcomes American Katie Ledecky’s dominance
Two of swimming’s legendary figures are providing Lauren Boyle with inspiration as she eyes next year’s Olympics. Boyle’s chances of winning gold at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro appear a long-shot – despite being a world-class performer, the 27-year-old is contesting the distance freestyle events dominated by American superstar Katie Ledecky. The…
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New Zealand swimmers caught in the deep end in 2014
Lauren Boyle and Sophie Pascoe aside, it’s been another forgettable and concerning year for swimming in New Zealand. And, frustratingly, even Boyle’s year has been hampered. Last month it was revealed the Rio Olympic medal hope has been without a specialist coach for six months and taxpayer-funded entities Swimming New Zealand and High Performance Sport…
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Still no coach for Lauren Boyle
Mystery still surrounds the coaching debacle hovering over top Olympic swimming medal hope Lauren Boyle. After calls for government intervention around Boyle’s situation – she has spent six months now without a coach – it is understood Associate Minister of Sport Murray McCully visited the Millennium Institute of Sport, site of High Performance Sport New…
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Lauren Boyle Sets Controversial 1500 Free SC World Record
Read SwimmingWorld Today, at the Wellington Winter Championships, Commonwealth Games gold medalist Lauren Boyle was reported to have smashed a world record in the short course 1500-meter freestyle event. Boyle, who will be competing at the Pan Pacific Championships later this month, clocked a 15:22.68 in the women’s 1500-meter freestyle.  That effort crushed Mireia Belmonte…
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Funding risk for underperforming Kiwis at Glasgow 2014
High Performance Sport New Zealand, which allocates government funding for elite sport, will carry out a reviews of all the sports it funds that competed in Glasgow. Triathlon failed to win a medal in Glasgow and swimming relied on Lauren Boyle and para swimmer Sophie Pascoe to win medals. Both sports each received about $2…
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NZ swimming goes even further off the Boyle
Lauren Boyle’s Commonwealth Games success, on the back of last year’s memorable triple bronzes at the world championships, was one of the most uplifting sights in Glasgow but has underlined a recurring problem — what to do about New Zealand swimming? Boyle’s gold and silver at Glasgow have again highlighted how much she is towing…