Eve Thomas is an Auckland-based swimmer who spent a large part of her career training in Dean Boxall’s “Super Squad” in Australia, where she made significant gains alongside some of the Australia’s biggest stars, including Ariarne Titmus.

Thomas is a distance swimmer who specialises in the 800m freestyle but also competes in the 400m and 1500m individually, as well as the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay.

Thomas made her debut as an Aquablack at the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships and has since competed at the 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 editions of the championships, alongside the Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Birmingham 2022 and Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, and the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m).

She made her first international final in the women’s 800m freestyle at the 2022 FINA World Aquatics Championships at the age of 21.

Thomas has been an integral part of the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay at every international pinnacle competition since her Aquablack debut in 2019. Most recently, Thomas and her teammates won bronze at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first New Zealand relay team in over a decade to step onto the podium and setting a new national record in the process.

Thomas was also part of the history-making quartet that became New Zealand’s first women’s relay team to make an Olympic final, when she and her teammates placed eighth in the women’s 4x200m freestyle at Paris 2024.

Thomas and the team have made numerous world championship finals over the past seven years, with a highest placing of fifth at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha.

The 2024 world championships produced one of Thomas’s best international outings to date, with her making the final in all her events and placing fourth in both the 800m and 1500m freestyle, seventh in the 400m freestyle, and fifth with the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay team.