​Norwood Swimming Club has enjoyed enormous success over the years, with Australia’s most successful Paralympian Matt Cowdrey our greatest achiever.

Closer to home, our swimmers have enjoyed great success at the State Age and Open long and short course championships, Division 1, Division 2 and JX (Junior Excellence) and State Open Water competitions over many years, consistently finishing ranked one or two.

In 2017, Norwood Swimming Club claimed 11th spot at the 2017 Australian Age Championships, up from 18th in 2016, and maintained our spot as the top-ranked club in SA. Over the week of competition in Brisbane, Norwood had 22 individual finalists and claimed 10 medals. Swimmers from well over 200 clubs contested these championships, so an 11th-place finish is an incredible result and something we should all be proud of. 

Congratulations to our medal winners...

• GOLD
  Emily White, 12/13 years, 800 free
  Emma-Lee Arnold, 16 years, 100 fly
• SILVER
  Emily White, 12/13 years, 400 IM
  Emily White, 12/13 years, 400 free
  Emily White, 12/13 years, 200 fly
  Emily White, 12/13 years, 200 IM
  Emily White, 12/13 years, 200 free
• BRONZE
  Emilie Muir, bronze, 14 years, 200 back
  Mitchell Follett, 16 years, 100 fly
  Emily White, 12/13 years, 100 fly

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At the Australian Open Championships, also in Brisbane, our Rio Paralympian Liam Bekric claimed the silver medal in the 50 breast MC event and contested a number of finals. 

Our Age multi-class team of Sophie Pontifex and Mattias McCarthy also had an impressive national campaign, swimming multiple personal best times. 

In 2016, we had a record 37 swimmers qualify to swim at the Australian Age Championships - the highest number of any SA club. We finished the meet with one gold, two silvers and two bronze medals, with more than 20 finalists, and ranked 18th in Australia and the top SA club.

We had a further 13 swimmers competiting in the Australian Open Championships, which doubles as the Olympic selection trIal.

In 2015, we had 25 swimmers compete in the Australian Age and Australian Open championships. Norwood finished the Age championships ranked 34th in Australia and second in SA. Norwood swimmers claimed six medals and contested 17 finals.

Also in 2015, Norwood swimmer Dan Gill represented his birth country of Seychelles at the FINA World Championships. Norwood's James Wong has also represented his home country, Malaysia, internationally.

Norwood Swimming Club has consistently had the highest number of swimmers from any SA club on the State primary and secondary schools teams