Corney Swanepoel
Appearance
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Nationality | New Zealander | ||||||||
Born | Potchefstroom, South Africa | 17 March 1986||||||||
Sport | |||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||
Medal record
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Corney Swanepoel (born 17 March 1986 in Potchefstroom, South Africa) is a butterfly swimmer from New Zealand. He swam for New Zealand at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
At the 2008 Olympics, he swam the 100 fly, where he finished 12th, and swam on New Zealand's 5th-place finishing 4 × 100 medley relay.
He holds the New Zealand Records in the 50m Butterfly (both long course and short course) and 100m Butterfly (both long course and short course).
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Corney Swanepoel at World Aquatics
- Corney Swanepoel at Olympics.com
- Corney Swanepoel at Olympedia
- Corney Swanepoel at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Corney Swanepoel at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
Categories:
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers for New Zealand
- South African emigrants to New Zealand
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- People educated at Rangitoto College
- New Zealand male butterfly swimmers
- Sportspeople from Potchefstroom
- 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen
- New Zealand swimming biography stubs