Hazel Vanessa Ouwehand

EVENTS: Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Butterfly specialist Hazel Ouwehand will compete in the 100m Butterfly at the Paris Olympic Games.

The Phoenix Aquatics swimmer set a New Zealand record at the 2024 NZ Swimming Championships, stopping the clock in 57.43sec, almost half a second under the Paris Olympics qualifying time of 57.92sec, and comfortably inside the previous national record (57.76sec).

Ouwehand has also competed for New Zealand at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, contesting the 50m butterfly, 50m backstroke, 100m butterfly and 100m backstroke.

Ouwehand is based in Auckland.