Career
He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, 1952 and 1956. He became a swimming coach, and gave television commentaries on several Olympics. Hurring was born in Dunedin in 1931.
In the 1950s, Hurring was a student at the University of Iowa on an athletic scholarship, while competing for the university"s Iowa Hawkeyes swimming and diving team
In 2001 he was inducted into the University of Iowa Hall of Fame. From 1954 Hurring and Jean Stewart coached swimming at Three Kings School in Auckland, and in 1975 they moved to the Takapuna Municipal Pool.
In 1993, aged 61, he collapsed and died on Milford Beach, Auckland from a heart attack.
