Dunedin swimmer Caitlin Deans has been selected for her first Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
The Dunedin Olympian will compete in the 4x200m women’s freestyle relay alongside former Dunedin swimmer Erika Fairweather, Milana Tapper and Eve Thomas.<\/p>\n
She has also been given the green light to line up in the women’s 400m and 800m freestyle events.<\/p>\n
Deans made her Olympic debut in Paris, where she was part of the 4x200m relay that finished eighth.<\/p>\n
The Neptune swimmer is part of the 13-strong New Zealand team named today in Auckland, headlined by former world champions Fairweather and Lewis Clareburt.<\/p>\n
Fairweather, who relocated to Auckland last year, will compete in the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle, alongside the women’s relay and the 4x100m mixed freestyle relay.<\/p>\n
Team for\u00a0Glasgow Games<\/p>\n
Erika Fairweather: Women’s 200m, 400m, 800m & 1500m Freestyle; 4x200m Women’s Freestyle Relay; 4x100m Mixed Freestyle Relay\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lewis Clareburt: Men’s 200m & 400m Individual Medley\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hazel Ouwehand: Women’s 50m\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zoe Pedersen: Women’s 50m Butterfly\u00a0<\/p>\n
Caitlin Deans: 4x200m Women’s Freestyle Relay\u00a0<\/p>\n
Milana Tapper: 4x200m Women’s Freestyle Relay\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eve Thomas: 4x200m Women’s Freestyle Relay\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chelsey Edwards: 4x100m Mixed Freestyle Relay\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cameron Gray: 4x100m Mixed Freestyle Relay\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carter Swift: 4x100m Mixed Freestyle Relay\u00a0<\/p>\n
Josh Willmer: Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB9<\/p>\n
Amber George:\u00a0Women\u2019s 50m Backstroke\u00a0<\/p>\n
Savannah-Eve Martin: Women\u2019s 50m Backstroke\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 The following athletes have also been successfully granted permission to start in the following events at the Games:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lewis Clareburt:\u00a0Men\u2019s 200m Butterfly & 200m Freestyle\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hazel Ouwehand:\u00a0Women\u2019s 100m Butterfly\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chelsey Edwards: Women\u2019s\u00a050m Freestyle &\u00a0100m Freestyle\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cameron Gray:\u00a0Men\u2019s 100m Freestyle & 50m Butterfly\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carter Swift:\u00a0Men\u2019s 100m Freestyle\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zoe Pedersen: Women\u2019s\u00a050m Freestyle &\u00a0100m Freestyle\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Caitlin Deans:\u00a0Women\u2019s 400m Freestyle & 800m Freestyle\u00a0<\/p>\n
Milana Tapper: Women\u2019s\u00a050m Freestyle &\u00a0200m Freestyle\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eve Thomas:\u00a0Women\u2019s 400m Freestyle & 800m Freestyle\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amber George: Women\u2019s 100m Backstroke<\/p>\n
Savannah-Eve Martin: Women\u2019s 100m Backstroke<\/p>\n
\u2014 Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunedin swimmer Caitlin Deans has been selected for her first Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The Dunedin Olympian will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-466682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}