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Georgia Marris

New Zealand swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ51620350
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Georgia Marris (born 15 November 1996) is a New Zealand swimmer. In 2018 she is competing in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the 100m butterfly event.

Marris was born and grew up on the North Shore, Auckland. She began learning to swim from 6 months old, and from the age of three had lessons with New Zealand swimming representative, Phillipa Gower (née Gould). Marris first competed for New Zealand at the 2012 Trans-Tasman Tri Series, followed by the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in 2013.

She has broken a number of New Zealand age group short course records including 13 years 100m freestyle, 16 years 200m freestyle and 17 years 100m freestyle. In 2015 and 2017 she competed at the World University Games.

She is currently based in the United States where she has a scholarship at the University of Florida.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Georgia Marris” is new Zealand swimmer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Georgia, Marris and Zealand, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2018, 2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-11-15. For this dossier, Georgia, Marris and Zealand is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Georgia Marris” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.