Career
He began teaching at Moana Pool in 1966, and over forty years training in Dunedin included 11 Olympic athletes. In 2003, Michael Phelps visited New Zealand to train under Laing. He had since retired from professional coaching, and received treatment in 2006 for melanoma on his leg and a brain tumour.
He was born in New Plymouth on 20 June 1933, and died in Dunedin on 13 September 2008 at the age of 77.
