Regular Events

• Monthly drinks – first Thursday of the month after swimming

Upcoming Events

• Rainbow Games 2024 – Auckland April 4-8 – the swimming event will incorporate the annual TAMS-DSW swim meet

Past Events

• The Gay Games in 2023 were in Hong Kong and Guadalajara in November
• The next Capital Swim Meet: is on Saturday 30 January 2021, 9.30am-1pm at Karori Pool: Details are here
• Raumati Masters swim meet – 19 October 2019 – Registration Form
• IGLA 2020 – Melbourne – 20-25 February 2020 – the annual international LGBTQI+ swim meet – https://www.melbourne2020.org
• Rainbow Fun Triathlon 2019 – Saturday 9 March
• Out in the Park fair – Saturday 16 March
  https://www.facebook.com/OutintheParkWellington/
  Rainbow Team Wellington will have a stall at the fair – and we need volunteers!
  Register to help here
• The annual TAMS-DSW swim meet for 2019 took place at 2-5pm on Saturday 26 January 2019 at Kilbirnie Pool in Wellington.

• The annual TAMS-DSW swim meet for 2018 is on Saturday 10 February 2018 hosted by TAMS in Auckland.   Come up to Auckland for the weekend!  There’s a sea swim as well as the indoor swim meet, and this all happens the day before the Big Gay Out festival in Auckland.
• Rainbow Fun Triathlon 2018
• Rainbow Fun Triathlon 2017
• Wellington Pride Festival 11-19 March 2017
• Pride Parade + Out in the Park Festival – Saturday 18 March
  We’ll walk in the Parade and hold an information stall with Rainbow Team Wellington at the Festival
• The annual TAMS-DSW swim meet

Event Calendar

Past Events

• Rainbow Sport and Culture Weekend – 27-29 January 2017
• Capital Swim Meet 28 January 2017
  Details and final results are here
• Out in the Park Pool Party Hosted by DSW
  7-9pm, 13 March 2016, Thorndon Pool, 26 Murphy St, Wellington

  At the end of a busy week of activity at the Wellington Pride festival, come along to the relaxed atmosphere of Thorndon Summer Pool, 5-7pm on Sunday 13 March.

  Entry includes a barbecue and soft drinks.

  Come along and play in the pool, soak in the spa pool, and have dinner with friends and family.

  Tickets are $15 per person ($10 concessions), and will are available in advance from the Rainbow Team Wellington stall at Out in the Park (Sat 12 March), or at the  pool entrance.  (Note – all ticket sales are cash only.)

  

• Out in the Park: Saturday 12 March 2016
  Out in the Park is Wellington’s annual LGBT fair at Waitangi Park
  DSW co-hosted a stall with Rainbow Team Wellington
  There was a parade starting from Frank Kitts Park – assemble at 10am
  The fair ran from 11am-6pm

• Rainbow Fun Triathlon – 5 March 2016

• Proud2Play – Auckland, February 2016

• Capital Swim Meet – 2015

Asia Pacific LGBTI Swimming Records

• At the Proud 2 Play event in Auckland in February 2016, five LGBTI swimming teams (TAMS, DSW, Wett Ones, Aqualicious and the Glamourhead Sharks) founded the Asia-Pacific LGBTI Swimming Forum.  We agreed that at Asia-Pacific events to which we were all invited a set of swimming records would be kept, swum against, and updated.Click here for the current records.

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