My Story In Full | The story of Tony Christiansen"


Throughout Tony's life, he has taken on and succeeded at some huge feats. More detail on some of these below...

Surf Lifesaver

'I was the only 10 year old kid at school who could swim a mile, and I had no legs!'

After friends of Tony's parents, who were swimming coaches, read an article that said teaching disabled people to swim was a great form of physiotherapy, Tony was literally thrown in at the deep end and learnt to swim. Swimming became an important part of Tony's life.

He went on to become a champion national and international swimmer and gave many years service to the Omanu Pacific Surf Club as a qualified life guard.

Tony was involved in over 33 rescues and honored by the World Surf Life Saving Organisation.