Moss Burmester

Moss was one of New Zealand's top ranked backstroke competitors. He was a gold medalist at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in the 200m butterfly and bronze in the 100m butterfly.

Moss has been selected for three Commonwealth Games (Manchester 2002, Melbourne 2006 and Delhi 2010). Also a two time Olympian competing at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Holder of the Commonwealth record for the 200m butterfly set at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in a time of 1:54:35 and held until 2010 when Chad le Clos of South Africa broke the record with a time of 1:56:64 and reset again in 2014 with a new time of 1:55:07.

Moss also had successful World Championship campaigns in Shanghai 2006 winning a Silver medal for the 200m butterfly and again in the same event a Gold medal during the Manchester 2008 World Champs.