Central Hawkes Bay Swimming
Hawke's Bay & Poverty Bay · North Island
A typical Central Hawkes Bay 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 Central Hawkes Bay?
64 swimmers raced for Central Hawkes Bay in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
Of 41 swimmers in both years, 49 in 100 gained more points than is typical for swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before; a typical gain of +39 points; swimmer by swimmer 0 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.
| Age | Swimmers | Typical gain, points | Beyond swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before, points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 8 | 35 | −25 |
| 12 | 6 | 60 | +3 |
| 13 | 6 | 36 | −25 |
| 18+ | 5 | 21 | +23 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 41 swimmers
Who stays with Central Hawkes Bay?
81 in 100 Central Hawkes Bay swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Central Hawkes Bay again this year, more than the 64 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025, per 100: whether they raced for Central Hawkes Bay in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Central Hawkes Bay | 81 |
| Raced for another club | 0 |
| No race this year | 19 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 52 swimmers of 2025
Where do Central Hawkes Bay swimmers come from, and go?
3 swimmers joined Central Hawkes Bay from another club and 3 left for one, 2016 to 2026; they came from 2 clubs and went to 3 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 = 6 moves
Who is still racing for Central Hawkes Bay years later?
Of Central Hawkes Bay swimmers of a year, 71 in 100 raced for Central Hawkes Bay again the next year and 50 in 100 two years on; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 65 in 100 and 45 in 100.
Swimmers of each year since 2016 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): the share with a club race for Central Hawkes Bay 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Hawkes | 71 | 50 | 33 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 65 | 45 | 31 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 375 swimmer-years one year on
How has Central Hawkes Bay changed over the years?
64 swimmers raced for Central Hawkes Bay in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 73% more than in the same months of 2016 and 106% more than in 2020, the fewest; 23% more than in 2025; across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.
Swimmers with at least one race for Central Hawkes Bay from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 37 |
| 2017 | 32 |
| 2018 | 36 |
| 2019 | 36 |
| 2020 | 31 |
| 2021 | 33 |
| 2022 | 44 |
| 2023 | 35 |
| 2024 | 39 |
| 2025 | 52 |
| 2026 | 64 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Central Hawkes Bay, and who left?
64 swimmers raced for Central Hawkes Bay in 2026, against 52 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 42 stayed, 10 left (10 stopped racing, 0 raced for other clubs); 22 joined: 21 new to racing, 0 from other clubs, 1 back after a break.
Swimmers with a race for Central Hawkes Bay 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 Central Hawkes Bay swimmer is faster than 37 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: 1 in 3 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 Central Hawkes Bay swimmer | 37 |
| 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 = 59 swimmers with points
How does Central Hawkes Bay compare with other clubs?
It is 78th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 45th of 59 clubs of 25 to 99 swimmers (5th of 7 in Hawke's Bay & Poverty Bay).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Central Hawkes Bay | In NZ | Clubs of 25 to 99 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers37 of 100 | 78th of 106 | 45th of 59 |
| Swimmers64 | 41st of 106 | 23rd of 59 |
| Kept, beyond their age+17 in 100 | 6th of 104 | 4th of 59 |
| Gained more than their peers49 in 100 | 45th of 100 | 29th 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, Central Hawkes Bay swimmers rank highest in butterfly (faster than 54 of every 100) and lowest in medley (27).
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 | 38 | 58 |
| Backstroke | 39 | 42 |
| Breaststroke | 39 | 41 |
| Butterfly | 54 | 22 |
| Medley | 27 | 36 |
| 50 m | 38 | 59 |
| 100–200 m | 36 | 44 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 59 swimmers with points
How many swim national qualifying times?
4 of 15 Central Hawkes Bay 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 | |
|---|---|
| Central Hawkes Bay | 27 |
| 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 = 15 swimmers aged 13 to 16
Where did Central Hawkes Bay race?
Central Hawkes Bay swimmers raced at 22 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
Did Central Hawkes Bay swimmers race at school meets?
17 swimmers from Central Hawkes Bay swam 126 races at 3 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.
How old are the swimmers?
Nearly 7 in 10 swimmers are 10 to 14 years old; across New Zealand, nearly 2 in 3.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2026 so far; 44 of the 64 are 10 to 14 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 8 and under | 4 |
| 9 | 4 |
| 10 | 10 |
| 11 | 14 |
| 12 | 10 |
| 13 | 6 |
| 14 | 4 |
| 15 | 3 |
| 16 | 2 |
| 17 | 2 |
| 18 and over | 5 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 64 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 16 times, at 3 meets; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand raced 16 times.
Number of swimmers by the number of races they swam in 2026 so far; typical is the median.
| Races | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | 25 |
| 11 to 20 | 12 |
| 21 to 30 | 8 |
| 31 to 40 | 5 |
| 41 to 50 | 2 |
| 51 or more | 12 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 64 swimmers
When do Central Hawkes Bay swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 26 May, with 210 races; all told, 1,518 races and about 108 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 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 |
| 5 | 55 |
| 6 | 4 |
| 7 | 165 |
| 8 | 0 |
| 9 | 127 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 26 |
| 12 | 62 |
| 13 | 0 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 6 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 0 |
| 19 | 80 |
| 20 | 14 |
| 21 | 210 |
| 22 | 6 |
| 23 | 4 |
| 24 | 73 |
| 25 | 0 |
| 26 | 187 |
| 27 | 0 |
| 28 | 0 |
| 29 | 0 |
| 30 | 0 |
| 31 | 0 |
| 32 | 5 |
| 33 | 196 |
| 34 | 0 |
| 35 | 0 |
| 36 | 0 |
| 37 | 89 |
| 38 | 0 |
| 39 | 31 |
| 40 | 4 |
| 41 | 0 |
| 42 | 0 |
| 43 | 0 |
| 44 | 174 |
| 45 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 1,518 races
How much slower is the second half?
A typical Central Hawkes Bay swimmer swims the second half of a race 11.8% slower than the first; swimmer by swimmer, they slow down typically 1.6% 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.
| % slower | |
|---|---|
| Central Hawkes Bay | 11.8% |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 10.3% |
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 = 29 swimmers