Jonathan Winter

Jonathan Winter

Personal information
Full name	Jonathan David Winter
Nickname(s)	Jon
Nationality	New Zealand
Born	(1971-08-18) 18 August 1971 Masterton, Wellington
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke
Club	Coach at Raumati Swimming Club, New Zealand
Medal record World Championships (SC) 1995 Rio de Janeiro 4x100m Medley

Jonathan Winter (born 18 August 1971 in Masterton) is a member of the Ngai Tahu Maori tribe and a former backstroke swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, for his native country. At the 1995 FINA World SC Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil he won the gold medal with the Men's 4 × 100 medley relay team.

Winter also competed in three consecutive Commonwealth Games, starting in 1994. His first outing for the National Team was in Spain at the first World Short Course Championships (1993). Winter also won four consecutive Backstroke categories (1993/94/95/96) at the Oceania Grand Prix and represented his Country in All strokes and Individual Medley. He held National Records in Butterfly, Backstroke and Individual Medley. Winter made a come back in 2002 (Manchester Commonwealth Games - placed 6th 50 Butterfly) and became the oldest Male to win a National Title in the 50 Freestyle aged 31yrs. He is the youngest grandson of Frank Winter. He began coaching the Heretaunga Sundevils swimming club in Flaxmere, Hastings in 1998. Winter is currently the head coach at Raumati Swimming club in Wellington and Coach for the Tongan Olympic Swimming Team at London 2012.

References

• Profile on NZ Olympic Committee
• sports-reference