Hazel Ouwehand was destined for the water. “I was born in a birthing pool in Hamilton!” she laughs. “Mum was a learn-to-swim teacher too, so my sisters and I were always in the water when we were little.”
Hazel, 24, is in her final weeks of training before heading to the Paris Olympics, where she’ll swim in the 100-metre butterfly. It’s a specialist stroke that Hazel has thrown all her energy into since realising it was her
