Search our list of inductees below or filter to a specific sport using the list on the left. Filter Inductees by Category Choose a sporting category View all inductees AdministrationAthleticsAviationBadmintonBasketballBilliardsBowlsBoxingCanoeingCricketCyclingDisabled sportEquestrianGolfHarness racingHockeyJetboatingMotorsportMountaineeringMultisportNetballRowingRugby LeagueRugby UnionShearingSkiingSoccerSoftballSports broadcastingSquashSwimmingTennisThoroughbred racingWeightliftingWoodchoppingWrestlingYachting Close Categories Find an inductee by name Reset search You searched for Swimming. Inductees are shown below...Our Inductees Malcolm Champion One of New Zealand’s greatest swimmers, Champion was the first New Zealander to win an Olympic gold medal - though he won it in the name of Australasia, the combined team that took part in the 1908 and 1912 Olympics. Read more Barrie Devenport The challenge, to be the first in recorded history, to swim Cook Strait was likened to other sporting challenges such as Roger Bannister’s first sub-four minute mile and Sir Edmund Hillary’s conquest of Everest. Read more Dave Gerrard Dave Gerrard was a champion butterfly swimmer whose life has been inextricably linked with sport. Read more Philippa Gould By the time she was 17, Philippa Gould’s swimming career was behind her but she’d already earned herself enduring fame in New Zealand sport. Read more Gary Hurring The Commonwealth Games 200 metres backstroke champion in 1978, Hurring was denied a chance to extend his success to the Olympic arena by swimming’s withdrawal for political reasons from the Games in Moscow in 1980. Read more Duncan Laing Duncan Laing’s sporting exploits began in Taranaki where he was a strong and effective surf lifesaver – he captained the New Zealand team against Australia - and was a lock for the provincial rugby team. Read more Danyon Loader When the names of New Zealand's greatest Olympians are remembered, that of Danyon Loader is of the first rank. Read more Meda McKenzie She first made her mark on sport when she was 15 and swum Cook Strait. It was the first of many triumphs. Read more Anthony Mosse Anthony Mosse was the standardbearer for New Zealand swimming through the 1980s. Read more Rebecca Perrott Rebecca Perrott was a champion swimmer, ranked with the best in the world, and has the unusual distinction of being the catalyst for the formation of the New Zealand Sports Foundation, the principal sports funding body. Read more Philip Rush Regarded as too slow to be a competitive pool swimmer, Rush turned to endurance swimming and became one of the best there has been. Read more Jean Stewart Jean Stewart, who married champion swimmer Lincoln Hurring, was the outstanding New Zealand woman swimmer of the early 1950s. Read more