Blenheim Swimming Club
Nelson Marlborough · South Island
A typical Blenheim swimmer in 2026 so far, stroke by stroke: faster than … of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender in New Zealand. 50 is typical.
* Swimmers are those who raced at a meet in Swimming New Zealand’s results; club members who did not race are not counted.
Who raced for Blenheim?
52 swimmers raced for Blenheim in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
87 in 100 swimmers who also raced in the same months of 2025 scored higher this year, with a typical change of +51 points; swimmer by swimmer, typically 17 points more than swimmers of the same age gained.
Swimmers who scored higher than in the same months of 2025, per 100; only those who raced in both years.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Blenheim | 87 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 79 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 30 swimmers
Who stays with Blenheim?
70 in 100 Blenheim swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Blenheim again this year, about the same as the 62 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025, per 100: whether they raced for Blenheim in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Blenheim | 70 |
| Raced for another club | 2 |
| No race this year | 28 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 43 swimmers of 2025
Where do Blenheim swimmers come from, and go?
8 swimmers joined Blenheim from another club and 8 left for one, 2016 to 2026; they came from 7 clubs and went to 6 clubs, none with 3 or more.
A move is a swimmer who raced for one club in a year and for another the next. Clubs with fewer than 3 moves are not named, so as not to point at one or two children.
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 16 moves
Who is still racing for Blenheim years later?
Of Blenheim swimmers of a year, 72 in 100 raced for Blenheim again the next year and 54 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 Blenheim 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.
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blenheim | 72 | 54 | 40 | 29 | 21 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 3 |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 64 | 42 | 28 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 487 swimmer-years one year on
How has Blenheim changed over the years?
52 swimmers raced for Blenheim in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 30% more than in the same months of 2016 and 63% more than in 2022, the fewest; 21% more than in 2025; the most were in 2019 (65); across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.
Swimmers with at least one race for Blenheim from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 40 |
| 2017 | 57 |
| 2018 | 58 |
| 2019 | 65 |
| 2020 | 56 |
| 2021 | 46 |
| 2022 | 32 |
| 2023 | 44 |
| 2024 | 46 |
| 2025 | 43 |
| 2026 | 52 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Blenheim, and who left?
52 swimmers raced for Blenheim in 2026, against 43 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 30 stayed, 13 left (12 stopped racing, 1 raced for other clubs); 22 joined: 21 new to racing, 0 from other clubs, 1 back after a break.
Swimmers with a race for Blenheim 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
How fast are they for their age?
A typical Blenheim swimmer is faster than 40 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: 2 in 5 of them are faster 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 100 | |
|---|---|
| A typical Blenheim swimmer | 40 |
| 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 = 52 swimmers with points
How does Blenheim compare with other clubs?
It is 64th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 38th of 59 clubs of 25 to 99 swimmers (4th of 5 in Nelson Marlborough).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Blenheim | In NZ | Clubs of 25 to 99 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers40 of 100 | 64th of 106 | 38th of 59 |
| Swimmers52 | 48th of 106 | 30th of 59 |
| Kept, beyond their age+7 in 100 | 35th of 104 | 23rd of 59 |
| Gained more than their peers65 in 100 | 7th of 100 | 4th of 59 |
| Under a NZ Age Group time4 | 47th of 105 | 29th of 58 |
Where are they strongest?
Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Blenheim swimmers rank highest in medley (faster than 47 of every 100) and lowest in breaststroke (36); by distance, they stand highest at 400 m and longer (59) and lowest at 100–200 m (35).
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 100 | Swimmers | |
|---|---|---|
| Freestyle | 41 | 51 |
| Backstroke | 42 | 41 |
| Breaststroke | 36 | 43 |
| Butterfly | 42 | 32 |
| Medley | 47 | 34 |
| 50 m | 39 | 52 |
| 100–200 m | 35 | 51 |
| 400 m and longer | 59 | 13 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 52 swimmers with points
How many swim national qualifying times?
20 in 100 Blenheim 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 31 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.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Blenheim | 20 |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 31 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · age at the last race · n = 20 swimmers aged 13 to 16
Where did Blenheim race?
Blenheim swimmers raced at 23 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
Did Blenheim swimmers race at school meets?
2 swimmers from Blenheim swam 10 races at 1 school meet 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.
How old are the swimmers?
Nearly 3 in 5 swimmers are 12 to 15 years old; across New Zealand, 43 in 100.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2026 so far; 30 of the 52 are 12 to 15 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 9 | 3 |
| 10 | 2 |
| 11 | 7 |
| 12 | 12 |
| 13 | 9 |
| 14 | 6 |
| 15 | 3 |
| 16 | 2 |
| 17 | 2 |
| 18 and over | 6 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 52 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 20 times, at 5 meets; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand raced 18 times.
Number of swimmers by the number of races they swam in 2026 so far; typical is the median.
| Races | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | 19 |
| 11 to 20 | 7 |
| 21 to 30 | 4 |
| 31 to 40 | 7 |
| 41 to 50 | 5 |
| 51 or more | 10 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 52 swimmers
When do Blenheim swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 15 Aug, with 175 races; all told, 1,457 races and about 176 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.
| Week | Races |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 81 |
| 4 | 88 |
| 5 | 79 |
| 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 8 |
| 8 | 6 |
| 9 | 51 |
| 10 | 86 |
| 11 | 41 |
| 12 | 36 |
| 13 | 106 |
| 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 4 |
| 16 | 23 |
| 17 | 4 |
| 18 | 0 |
| 19 | 4 |
| 20 | 36 |
| 21 | 0 |
| 22 | 0 |
| 23 | 0 |
| 24 | 72 |
| 25 | 0 |
| 26 | 0 |
| 27 | 60 |
| 28 | 0 |
| 29 | 0 |
| 30 | 92 |
| 31 | 0 |
| 32 | 0 |
| 33 | 271 |
| 34 | 0 |
| 35 | 28 |
| 36 | 0 |
| 37 | 129 |
| 38 | 0 |
| 39 | 41 |
| 40 | 7 |
| 41 | 0 |
| 42 | 52 |
| 43 | 0 |
| 44 | 50 |
| 45 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 1,457 races
How much slower is the second half?
A typical Blenheim swimmer swims the second half of a race 10.2% slower than the first, about the same as the 10.1% typical for 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.
| % slower | |
|---|---|
| Blenheim | 10.2% |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 10.1% |
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 = 45 swimmers