Glenn Snyders

Glenn Andrew Mark Snyders was born on 7 April 1987 in Klerksdorp. His parents, Barry and Sue, moved from South Africa when their son was 12 and settled in England, where he attended Milverton House School in Nuneaton. It was here that Snyders really started swimming. "A teacher said I had a natural breaststroke kick, just the movements of it. I was able to grasp them very quickly. Out of the four strokes I was just good at breaststroke."

The family then moved to Auckland in 1999, where he swam with the North Shore Swimming Club and was the 2011 New Zealand Swimmer of the Year. After 12 years at the club he moved to California to swim under coach Dave Salo at the University of Southern California. 

He won the silver medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in a time of 27.67 seconds. 

Snyders is also the first man in New Zealand to swim the 100 breaststroke in under 1:00 - 59,78 at the 2012 Olympic Games. 

He also competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2008 Summer Olympics. In the latter, he swam the breaststroke leg for the New Zealand team which finished fifth in the final of the Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay.

Glenn also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and the 4 x 100 metre medley relay. 

In 2024 he still holds the New Zealand records for the 50, 100, and 200m breaststroke, in both longcourse (LC) and shortcourse (SC).  With fellow South African and Western Transvaler Corney Swanepoel (Potchefstroom), he was also a member of the New Zealand team which set the national record for the 4×100m medley relay, at the 2009 FINA World Championships held in Rome.