When performance counts, pools choose Anti Wave.
For over five decades, Anti Wave has been dedicated to the design, innovation, and production of the world’s finest performance swimming, water polo, leisure, pool deck, and pool programming equipment.
Proudly an Australian, family-run company with a truly global reach, Anti Wave delivers top-performance aquatic technologies through a strong and growing network of Authorised Licensees and Distributors around the world.
Founded in 1971 by former professional water polo player Anti Kajlich, Anti Wave equipment was first selected for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, followed by the 1st World Aquatics Championships in Cali, Colombia (1975). These early selections set the foundation for a long history of excellence and trust in global competition environments.
Since then, Anti Wave has led the world in aquatic product innovation and development. Anti Wave equipment has been chosen for elite facilities including Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games venues, FINA World Cup events, National Swimming and Water Polo Championships, and countless state, regional, and community aquatic centres worldwide.
Today, Anti Wave maintains licensed production in nine countries, with distribution in every continent, and operates under the direction of Anti’s son Anton, a former Australian Youth Water Polo goalkeeper – with over 25 years experience in the aquatics sector, who now manages the company in line with the long-established principles of innovation, durability, and global accessibility.
Anti Wave continues to expand worldwide availability, ensuring that the highest-quality top performance aquatic sports equipment is accessible to an ever-growing number of countries and sport communities.
2026 SwimSwam Article – Anti Wave Racing Lanes: More Than Five Decades of Engineering Calmer Water for Faster Swimming (link)
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The Anti Wave Story:
Anti Wave Founder Anti Kajlich:
Anti Wave Founder, Anton (Anti) Kajlich, grew up in the small Spa town of Piestany, now Slovakia – renowned for its aquatic sports – with river, pools and thermal spas hosting a range of aquatic activities and renowned in the region as a centre for healing and rejuvenation. As a young man he grew up with a love of Polo, going on to be selected as Goalie for the Czechoslovakia National Polo team 1962-1967, his team becoming Czechoslovakian Club Champions in 1965. Notably, he also played as honorary Goalie for the Cuban Water Polo team in 1964, while visiting Cuba with his Czech national team for training and competitions that year!
With a brilliant and ambitious mind, far too restricted under the severe Iron curtain of communist Czechoslovakia, using an Austrian Polo competition as his cover, Anti then defected from the Communist regime bound for the United States in 1967. He studied Chemical Engineering at University of California Berkley, gaining the University’s first sports scholarship for Water Polo, and going on to be selected for the ‘All American’ Team as Goalie in 1967.
Drawing on his engineering background and his years as a Water Polo goalkeeper in the United States, Anti recognised a unique opportunity to design and manufacture high-quality Water Polo Goals and Swimming Racing Lanes for competition swimming. Working from his garage, he produced what would become the Munich 1972 Olympic model of the original ‘Anti Goal’. Patented in 1974, the goal rapidly became the best-selling polo goal in the USA and soon gained worldwide adoption. Fast forward to today, the Anti range of goals remains the best-selling and most widely distributed in history.
Anti’s uniquely engineered ‘Anti Wave’ Racing Lanes followed shortly after. First manufactured in 1973, they were selected for the 1975 1st World Swimming Championships in Cali, Colombia. These new lanes were a major advancement over previous designs, offering superior wave-minimisation and unmatched durability. Very quickly, Patented Anti Wave Racing Lanes became the global standard for high-performance aquatic facilities and were selected at top facilities around the world.
In 1981, Anti and his family moved to Brisbane, Australia, establishing what would become the long-term headquarters for Anti Wave’s global operations. Over the decades, Anti worked tirelessly to expand the Anti Wave range into a comprehensive suite of world-class aquatic equipment. This included Racing Lanes, Starting Blocks, Water Polo Goals, Pool Gratings, StoReels, and a wide array of other products essential to competitive and commercial aquatic facilities worldwide. His designs were grounded in durability, innovation, practicality, and global availability – principles that remain at the heart of Anti Wave today.
Masters Polo Champion:
Anti continued to play FINA Masters 80+ Polo well into his 80’s, securing a Gold Medal at the FINA World Cup Masters competition in Montreal in 2014 with his team the ‘Golden Oldies,’ and his team gaining a Silver Medal at the 2017 FINA World Masters Championship – with the oldest age group in the competition’s history of +70 age group in Budapest. He remained firmly committed to his sport right up to his last days, committed to his great swim and polo mates world wide, and dedicated to a lifetime of service to the aquatics industry around the world.
Anti Wave – Next Generation – Building the Next 50 Years:
In July 2025, we sadly said goodbye to our founder, Anti Kajlich, following his courageous battle with cancer. His vision, creativity, and relentless pursuit of excellence remain the foundation upon which Anti Wave stands today.
Today, his son, Anton Kajlich, proudly leads the company forward – continuing the principles, innovation, and long-term global vision established by his father. A former Australian Youth Water Polo goalkeeper, Anton brings more than 25 years of international experience in the aquatics industry. Since formally stepping into leadership in 2018, Anton has driven the development of next-generation product innovations while significantly expanding Anti Wave’s global licensed manufacturing and distribution network. Today, Anti Wave Global has Licensed Production in 9 countries and Authorised Distribution across approximately 200 partners worldwide.
Having grown up immersed in both competitive sport and the aquatics industry, Anton has developed deep expertise across product design and engineering, global manufacturing systems, elite competition requirements, and international distribution and networks. This foundation now underpins Anti Wave’s global operations. Under his leadership, Anti Wave has evolved into a truly global aquatic infrastructure company – delivering world-class competition equipment, engineering systems, and project solutions across every continent.
Holding a Master’s degree in Sustainable Development and Business Management from the University of Queensland, Anton has also driven Anti Wave’s export market development and product management initiatives, strengthening the company’s global reach while driving continuous product improvement and innovation. He speaks English and Spanish and is married with two children.
Anti Wave’s legacy lives on through continuous innovation, world-class quality, and a steadfast commitment to the future of aquatic sport – values established by Anti and carried forward by the next generation.
Director of Anti Wave Global, Anton Kajlich:
“The Anti Wave story and company history is based on continual ground level innovation and product development based on direct feedback from global athletes and teams.
We work tirelessly towards achieving the best possible product with the best possible global availability and service for all clubs and pools – from the smallest facilities – right up to key international events; we continue that history today with a diverse range of new products and ongoing research and development activities to keep Anti Wave at the forefront of design and innovation in the sector.
The needs of all clubs, facilities and athletes are always in the front and centre of our minds in all that we do, and as athletes ourselves, we proudly maintain strong connections to ground level swim and polo teams, clubs and pools around the world; the original incubators of so much swim and polo global talent, which are often forgotten and completely overlooked by the larger contemporary aquatics organisations.’
The Anti Wave Story (Link to SwimSwam Article Feb 2021):
The Original High Performance Swimming Racing Lane:
The Anti Wave MAXI Swimming Racing lanes were designed originally for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, where they contributed to one of the ‘fastest pools’ in competition history. The Anti Wave MAXI Racing Lanes have undergone continual and significant design improvements since their inception, and Anti Wave Racing Lanes continue to prove themselves as the worlds most popular top performance competition & training swimming racing lane system, with the widest global availability of any Lane maker today.
The latest models of the Anti Wave MIDI and MAXI Swimming Racing Lanes lead the world in their sophisticated innovative wave minimising design, highest quality materials and production, and unmatched world wide availability and selection in top performance pools and aquatic facilities around the world include FINA/WA and equivalent competitions (Above 2025 Canadian Swimming Trials – World Aquatics compliant feeder event).
The Global Anti Goal provides all clubs and pool around the world with a top quality premium full sized Polo Goal. Made in Australia, and shipped globally door to door by discount Air Courier direct to clubs and pools. So far the Global Anti Goal has been shipped to 65 Countries and has quickly become a global favourite for training and competition facilities alike.
The Global Anti Goal was featured at the 2024 USA Water Polo Junior Olympics in Irvine California, USA. Also selected by top clubs and facilities in Europe, Australia, Asia, the Gulf and beyond – now exported from Australia to 65 Countries!
Product Innovation & Availability:
Anti Wave’s continual focus on innovation and product development keeps Anti Wave at the front of the pack when it comes to design, function and product quality.
We continue to extend both our product range and innovations, and also our increased product availability and distribution around the world, for all clubs and pools to enjoy.
Anti Wave – We know Water Polo:
Since the selection of the original model of the Anti Goal at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Anti Wave has been at the forefront of the development and innovation of top performance polo equipment and supply around the world.
The Anti Goal, available today as the Anti Pro Goal and SNR/JNR Folding Goal models, has undergone continual updates and improvements since its initial development. We work closely with top teams around the world to ensure that each and every polo product is not only best in class, but exceeds the expectations and needs for the Polo community.
Designed and Tested in Australia:
Anti Wave products are designed, tested and engineered in Australia – and produced to withstand the harsh climate and conditions and heavy every day commercial use, found in many pools around the world.
Aquatic sports are very close to our heart at Anti Wave, given our long history providing top equipment, and our own close involvement in the sport of Water Polo since the 1960’s.
We work closely with top swimming and water polo coaches, athletes and facilities for research and development to stay ahead of the game in product innovation and development.
With our long history in the provision of top performance aquatic sports, leisure, and pool programming product design and manufacture, Anti Wave is well positioned to meet the needs of a dynamic and exciting industry
Over 50 Years of Aquatics Excellence:
Aquatic sports are very close to our heart at Anti Wave, given our long history designing and producing top aquatics equipment, and our own close involvement in the sport of Water Polo since the 1960’s.
Anti Wave has over 50 years experience in outfitting top performance aquatic venues around the world with competition swimming, water polo and pool deck and pool programming equipment.
Anti Wave supplied Lanes and polo equipment to the Munich 1972 Olympic Venue as well as the 1st World Aquatics Championships in Cali, Colombia in 1975.
Anti Wave Performance Swimming Racing Lanes were first patented in 1975 and used in the first World Swimming Championship in the same year. Since then Anti Wave products have continued to set the standard around the world for product quality and design and innovation.
We work closely with top swimming and water polo coaches and athletes for continual research and development to stay ahead of the pack when it comes to product development and innovation.
Fast forward to today, and Anti Wave continues to be the preferred equipment supplier to major event facilities around the world, as well as top national, regional and local facilities in over 150 countries.
From Munich 1972 Olympic Games to Beijing 2008 Olympics and on to 2019 FINA Water Polo World Cup New Zealand, 2020 FINA World Junior Men’s Water Polo Championships Kuwait, 2023 FINA South East Asian Games , 2024 USA Water Polo JNR Olympics, 2024 Australian Swimming Championships, 2023 & 2024 FIN Coppa Italia and more.
With our long history in the provision of top performance aquatic sports, leisure, and pool programming product design and manufacture, Anti Wave is well positioned to meet the needs of a dynamic and exciting industry.
