Moss Burmester

Moss Burmester
OLY
Burmester in 2007
Personal information
Full nameMoss James Burmester
Born (1981-06-19) 19 June 1981 (age 43)
Hastings, New Zealand
Sport
SportSwimming
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  New Zealand
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2008 Manchester 200 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2006 Shanghai 200 m butterfly
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne[1] 200 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Melbourne 100 m butterfly

Moss James Burmester OLY (born 19 June 1981) is a New Zealand swimmer and diver. His specialist event is the 200m butterfly in which he holds the Commonwealth record of 1:54.35 set at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Burmester was born in Hastings, New Zealand. He grew up in Tauranga and received his education at Otumoetai College.[2] His career highlights in the 200m butterfly are 4th at the 2008 Olympics and gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne where he set a Commonwealth Games record of 1:56.64.

He was the bronze medallist in the 100m butterfly at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a time of 52.73 and set a New Zealand record of 52.37 when qualifying for New Zealand's 2008 Olympic team.

After he retired from swimming, he became an unassisted diver.

  1. ^ "Swimming Schedule and Results". Archived from the original on 11 August 2007. Retrieved 22 August 2007.
  2. ^ Dunham, David (28 December 2006). "TOP STORY: Moss is our pick for 2006". Bay of Plenty Times. Retrieved 4 November 2016.