Results to 10 Nov 2026

Aquabladz NP

Taranaki · North Island

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Key figures (4)2026 so far

swimmers* raced for Aquabladz NP at 34 meets

56 in 100

swimmers gained more points since the same months of 2025 than is typical for their age, gender and level

72 in 100

Aquabladz NP swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Aquabladz NP again; swimmers of the same age: 65 in 100

63 of 100

swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand are slower than a typical Aquabladz NP swimmer

* Swimmers are those who raced at a meet in Swimming New Zealand’s results; club members who did not race are not counted.

01Swimmers2026 so far

Who raced for Aquabladz NP?

78 swimmers raced for Aquabladz NP in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.

02Year on year2026 so far

Do they get faster?

Of 66 swimmers in both years, 56 in 100 gained more points than is typical for swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before; a typical gain of +48 points; swimmer by swimmer +6 beyond them, not a clear difference.

Each swimmer’s gain in best points* since the same months of 2025, at each age with 5 or more of them, set beside New Zealand swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before - level meaning the same quarter of best points for their age and gender then.

Columns: the typical gain in points at each age. Over them: points beyond swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before - more, fewer, grey where not clear.

Typical gain in best points since the same months of 2025, by age
Age	Swimmers	Typical gain, points	Beyond swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before, points
11	11	79	+20
12	12	64	+5
13	8	65	+3
14	10	48	0
15	13	43	+7

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 66 swimmers

03Returning2026 so far

Who stays with Aquabladz NP?

72 in 100 Aquabladz NP swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Aquabladz NP again this year, more than the 65 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.

Swimmers of 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025, per 100: whether they raced for Aquabladz NP in the same months of 2026.

Aquabladz NP swimmers of 2025, per 100
Swimmers of 2025	Per 100
Raced for Aquabladz NP	72
Raced for another club	0
No race this year	28

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 94 swimmers of 2025

04Moves2016 to 2026

Where do Aquabladz NP swimmers come from, and go?

41 swimmers joined Aquabladz NP from another club and 8 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most came from Stratford Flyers (14).

Swimmers who raced for one club in a year and for another the next; each band as wide as the number who moved, and the clubs stand in the same order on both sides. Clubs with fewer than 3 moves are together as “other clubs”.

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Aquabladz NP: moves from and to other clubs
Club	Came	Went
Stratford Flyers	14	–
Okato	8	–
Highlands Amateur	6	–
Other clubs	13	8

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 49 moves

05Still racing2016 to 2026

Who is still racing for Aquabladz NP years later?

Of Aquabladz NP swimmers of a year, 71 in 100 raced for Aquabladz NP again the next year and 50 in 100 two years on; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 64 in 100 and 42 in 100.

Swimmers of each year since 2016 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): the share with a club race for Aquabladz NP one, two, three… years on, in the same months. Peers are New Zealand swimmers of the same start year, age and gender.

Years on, per 100 swimmers of the start year.

Share still racing, per 100
	one year on	two years on	three years on	four years on	five years on	six years on	seven years on	eight years on	nine years on	ten years on
Aquabladz NP	71	50	34	23	15	10	5	2	1	1
Same age and gender across New Zealand	64	42	27	18	12	7	5	3	2	1

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 799 swimmer-years one year on

06Over the years2016 to 2026

How has Aquabladz NP changed over the years?

78 swimmers raced for Aquabladz NP in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 4% fewer than in the same months of 2016 and 28% more than in 2020, the fewest; 17% fewer than in 2025; the most were in 2018 (96); across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.

Swimmers with at least one race for Aquabladz NP from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.

Swimmers raced for Aquabladz NP by year
Year	Swimmers
2016	81
2017	90
2018	96
2019	84
2020	61
2021	66
2022	77
2023	75
2024	75
2025	94
2026	78

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026

07Joined and left2016 to 2026

Who joined Aquabladz NP, and who left?

78 swimmers raced for Aquabladz NP in 2026, against 94 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 68 stayed, 26 left (26 stopped racing, 0 raced for other clubs); 10 joined: 7 new to racing, 1 from other clubs, 2 back after a break.

Swimmers with a race for Aquabladz NP in the same months of each year (1 Jan to 10 Nov), set beside the year before.

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026

08Peers2026 so far

How fast are they for their age?

A typical Aquabladz NP swimmer is faster than 63 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: 35 in 100 of them are slower than New Zealand’s typical swimmer of their age.

Peers are New Zealand swimmers of the same age and gender, compared by the World Aquatics points of their best race (one scale for every stroke and distance; 1,000 is about world-record speed).

Faster than … of every 100 peers
	Faster than … of 100
A typical Aquabladz NP swimmer	63
A typical New Zealand swimmer	50

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each set beside New Zealand swimmers of the same age and gender · n = 78 swimmers with points

09Places2026 so far

How does Aquabladz NP compare with other clubs?

It is 13th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 5th of 59 clubs of 25 to 99 swimmers (1st of 5 in Taranaki).

Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.

Places

Aquabladz NP	In NZ	Clubs of 25 to 99
Faster than … of 100 peers63 of 100	13th of 106	5th of 59
Swimmers78	30th of 106	12th of 59
Kept, beyond their age+7 in 100	36th of 104	24th of 59
Gained more than their peers56 in 100	23rd of 100	16th of 59
Under a NZ Age Group time17	14th of 105	2nd of 58

10Strengths2026 so far

Where are they strongest?

Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Aquabladz NP swimmers rank highest in freestyle (faster than 66 of every 100) and lowest in butterfly (46).

Each stroke and distance sets a swimmer’s best race in it against the best of New Zealand swimmers of the same age and gender who raced it; 50 is the typical swimmer. Faded bars are not clearly different from 50, or have too few swimmers to tell.

By stroke

By distance

Faster than … of every 100 peers, by stroke and distance
	Faster than … of 100	Swimmers
Freestyle	66	77
Backstroke	56	69
Breaststroke	58	67
Butterfly	46	54
Medley	54	64
50 m	61	77
100–200 m	58	74
400 m and longer	65	30

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 78 swimmers with points

11Qualifying times2026 so far

How many swim national qualifying times?

47 in 100 Aquabladz NP swimmers aged 13 to 16 swam at least one race faster than the 2026 NZ Age Group qualifying time for their age, about the same as the 35 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age and gender.

Swimmers aged 13 to 16, per 100, with a race faster than the qualifying time for their age, gender, event and pool, beside New Zealand swimmers of the same age and gender.

Swimmers aged 13 to 16 with a race faster than the qualifying time for their age, gender, event and pool, per 100, NZ Age Group times
	Per 100
Aquabladz NP	47
Swimmers of the same age and gender	35

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · age at the last race · n = 36 swimmers aged 13 to 16

12Meets2026 so far

Where did Aquabladz NP race?

Aquabladz NP swimmers raced at 34 meets in 2026 so far.

The latest threeEvery meet

Steelformers West Coast Champs (Nov 2026)1 Nov 2026 · 6 swimmers · 22 races · 23% PBs North Island Showdown 2026 - (Formely CNI)23–25 Oct 2026 · 37 swimmers · 338 races · 52% PBs Stratford Flyers October Carnival 20264 Oct 2026 · 16 swimmers · 68 races · 50% PBs

13School meets2026 so far

Did Aquabladz NP swimmers race at school meets?

24 swimmers from Aquabladz NP swam 168 races at 2 school meets in 2026 so far.

School meets are entered for schools, not clubs: a school race counts for the club the swimmer raced for before and after the meet, or in the three months before it when there is nothing after yet. They count in how fast the club’s swimmers were, never as races for the club.

2026 Zespri AIMS Games5–8 Sep 2026 · 10 swimmers · 81 races · 52 PBs 2026 New Zealand Secondary School Swimming Championships30 Jul – 2 Aug 2026 · 14 swimmers · 87 races · 53 PBs

14Ages2026 so far

How old are the swimmers?

3 in 4 swimmers are 11 to 15 years old; across New Zealand, nearly 3 in 5.

Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2026 so far; 59 of the 78 are 11 to 15 years old.

Swimmers by age
Age	Swimmers
9	6
10	3
11	14
12	14
13	8
14	10
15	13
16	5
17	4
18 and over	1

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 78 swimmers

15Races2026 so far

How often do they race?

A typical swimmer raced 38 times, at 6 meets; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand raced 20 times.

Number of swimmers by the number of races they swam in 2026 so far; typical is the median.

Swimmers by the number of races
Races	Swimmers
1 to 10	17
11 to 20	12
21 to 30	6
31 to 40	7
41 to 50	11
51 or more	25

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 78 swimmers

16The year2026 so far

When do Aquabladz NP swimmers race?

The busiest day in 2026 so far was 12 Jun, with 174 races; all told, 3,046 races and about 366 km of racing.

Each cell is a week of 2026, from the first of January; the darker, the more races. Empty cells are weeks without a race; the outline fades for weeks still to come.

Races each week of 2026
Week	Races
1	0
2	0
3	0
4	0
5	81
6	43
7	301
8	43
9	155
10	6
11	17
12	114
13	164
14	13
15	54
16	154
17	0
18	0
19	0
20	9
21	167
22	37
23	71
24	279
25	0
26	39
27	11
28	0
29	314
30	61
31	0
32	0
33	293
34	3
35	48
36	91
37	3
38	0
39	40
40	75
41	0
42	0
43	338
44	22
45	0

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 3,046 races

17Pacing2026 so far

How much slower is the second half?

A typical Aquabladz NP swimmer swims the second half of a race 9.0% slower than the first; swimmer by swimmer, they slow down typically 1.0% more than swimmers of the same age and gender in the same events.

Each swimmer’s typical race of 100 m or more in one stroke, beside New Zealand swimmers of the same age and gender in the same event and pool. The first half holds the start, so even an evenly swum race has a slower second half.

The second half against the first, % slower
	% slower
Aquabladz NP	9.0%
Swimmers of the same age and gender	8.0%

Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · with the halfway split recorded in a race of 100 m or more · n = 40 swimmers

Week	Races
1	0
2	0
3	0
4	0
5	81
6	43
7	301
8	43
9	155
10	6
11	17
12	114
13	164
14	13
15	54
16	154
17	0
18	0
19	0
20	9
21	167
22	37
23	71
24	279
25	0
26	39
27	11
28	0
29	314
30	61
31	0
32	0
33	293
34	3
35	48
36	91
37	3
38	0
39	40
40	75
41	0
42	0
43	338
44	22
45	0

Week	Races
1	0
2	0
3	0
4	0
5	81
6	43
7	301
8	43
9	155
10	6
11	17
12	114
13	164
14	13
15	54
16	154
17	0
18	0
19	0
20	9
21	167
22	37
23	71
24	279
25	0
26	39
27	11
28	0
29	314
30	61
31	0
32	0
33	293
34	3
35	48
36	91
37	3
38	0
39	40
40	75
41	0
42	0
43	338
44	22
45	0

Week	Races
1	0
2	0
3	0
4	0
5	81
6	43
7	301
8	43
9	155
10	6
11	17
12	114
13	164
14	13
15	54
16	154
17	0
18	0
19	0
20	9
21	167
22	37
23	71
24	279
25	0
26	39
27	11
28	0
29	314
30	61
31	0
32	0
33	293
34	3
35	48
36	91
37	3
38	0
39	40
40	75
41	0
42	0
43	338
44	22
45	0