Chasing Frozen Ferns selection in near-freezing Alexandra pool
AROUND 40 of New Zealand’s toughest swimmers will descend on Alexandra next week, braving near-freezing water in pursuit of Frozen Ferns selection.
2025 IISA Aotearoa NZ National Open Water Championships
9th to 12th July 2025, Saint Bathans, Central Otago By Susan Sherwen This years event at St Bathans, marked our fourth National Ice Swimming Championship. We extend sincere appreciation to our dedicated volunteers, whose commitment of time, expertise, and enthusiasm is invaluable. Their contributions are essential to the success of these events. We sincerely thank […]
Frozen Ferns at the 6th IISA World Championships
Results and information about the 6th World Championships and the New Zealand team
Chairman’s Annual Report IISA Aotearoa NZ
2025 Chairman’s Annual Report by Roger Soulsby
IISA 5th World Championship in French Alps
ICE BREAKING NEWS IISA 5th World Championship in French AlpsDATES:12,13,14,15 January 2023 Arrival and registration Wed 11-Jan-2023 Swimming and awards Thu 12 Jan to Sun 15 Jan. It’s our first full 4 days of the Ice Swimming World Championship. Save the dates and make your plans. Exactly location and Program will be announced soon. See […]
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Welcome to International Ice Swimming Association – Aoteoroa New Zealand. This is the web site to allow us to promote Ice swimming and provide information and contact details for anyone who is interested
2024 NZ Ice Swimming Pool chaps – Entries now open
Venue: Alexandra Pool. Molyneux Park off Centennial Avenue, Alexandra, South Island, New Zealand Please familiarise yourself with IISA swimming rules and enter on the IISA websitehttps://internationaliceswimming.com/view-iisa-event/?event=170 Program Tuesday 10 July1-4 pm: Registration at the Alexandra pool. Later registration can be arranged by contacting the organisers. Wednesday 10 July Thursday 11 July Friday 12 July Saturday […]
David Coleman swims 6th Ice Mile
Congratulations to David Coleman who has now swum 6 Ice miles, the most of any Kiwi. His last mile was swum at Falcon Lake, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire UK. Well done David
NZ Openwater swimming events are ready for entries.
There are a number of events set up for this winter for kiwis to get their cold swimming in IISA Aotearoa NZ National Open Water Championships This will be held at Blue Lake, St Bathans this year, with events from 250m to 1000m. This will enable people to get qualifying in for any Ice Miles […]
Kiwi’s at the IISA World Champs
IISA 5 th World Championships 12 th – 15 th Jan 2023; Samoens, French Alps. The following are the outstanding results achieved by our Team attending their 1stInternational Event. As a Country we far exceeded expectations with a relatively smallTeam travelling the furthest to get there from mid-summer temperatures ‘Down-Under’. Congratulations to all involved in […]