Dolphin Swimming Club
Manawatū–Whanganui · North Island
A typical Dolphin 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 Dolphin?
26 swimmers raced for Dolphin in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
15 of 19 swimmers who also raced in the same months of 2025 scored higher this year, with a typical change of +29 points; swimmer by swimmer, typically 25 points fewer 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 | |
|---|---|
| Dolphin | 79 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 93 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 19 swimmers
Who stays with Dolphin?
48 in 100 Dolphin swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Dolphin again this year, less than the 68 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025, per 100: whether they raced for Dolphin in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Dolphin | 48 |
| Raced for another club | 2 |
| No race this year | 50 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 48 swimmers of 2025
Where do Dolphin swimmers come from, and go?
12 swimmers joined Dolphin from another club and 24 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most came from Feilding Dolphin Amateur (6), the most went to Feilding Dolphin Amateur (11).
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”.
| Club | Came | Went |
|---|---|---|
| Feilding Dolphin Amateur | 6 | 11 |
| Kiwi West Aquatics | – | 6 |
| Te Kawau | 5 | – |
| Ice Breaker Aquatics | – | 5 |
| Other clubs | 1 | 2 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 36 moves
Who is still racing for Dolphin years later?
Of Dolphin swimmers of a year, 55 in 100 raced for Dolphin again the next year and 32 in 100 two years on; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 67 in 100 and 47 in 100.
Swimmers of each year since 2016 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): the share with a club race for Dolphin 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolphin | 55 | 32 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 67 | 47 | 33 | 22 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | — |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 296 swimmer-years one year on
How has Dolphin changed over the years?
26 swimmers raced for Dolphin in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 117% more than in the same months of 2016; 46% fewer than in 2025; the most were in 2024 (49); across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.
Swimmers with at least one race for Dolphin from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 22 |
| 2018 | 20 |
| 2019 | 30 |
| 2020 | 19 |
| 2021 | 34 |
| 2022 | 33 |
| 2023 | 29 |
| 2024 | 49 |
| 2025 | 48 |
| 2026 | 26 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Dolphin, and who left?
26 swimmers raced for Dolphin in 2026, against 48 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 23 stayed, 25 left (24 stopped racing, 1 raced for other clubs); 3 joined: 2 new to racing, 1 from other clubs, 0 back after a break.
Swimmers with a race for Dolphin 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 Dolphin swimmer is faster than 61 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: 44 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 100 | |
|---|---|
| A typical Dolphin swimmer | 61 |
| 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 = 26 swimmers with points
How does Dolphin compare with other clubs?
It is 17th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 9th of 59 clubs of 25 to 99 swimmers (1st of 8 in Manawatū–Whanganui).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Dolphin | In NZ | Clubs of 25 to 99 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers61 of 100 | 17th of 106 | 9th of 59 |
| Swimmers26 | 74th of 106 | 56th of 59 |
| Kept, beyond their age−20 in 100 | 95th of 104 | 57th of 59 |
| Gained more than their peers32 in 100 | 82nd of 100 | 52nd of 59 |
| Under a NZ Age Group time1 | 65th of 105 | 43rd of 58 |
Where are they strongest?
Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Dolphin swimmers rank highest in freestyle (faster than 63 of every 100) and lowest in butterfly (46); by distance, they stand highest at 50 m (64).
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 | 63 | 26 |
| Backstroke | 47 | 22 |
| Breaststroke | 50 | 21 |
| Butterfly | 46 | 21 |
| Medley | 54 | 19 |
| 50 m | 64 | 26 |
| 100–200 m | 60 | 25 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 26 swimmers with points
Where did Dolphin race?
Dolphin swimmers raced at 10 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
How old are the swimmers?
Nearly 7 in 10 swimmers are 9 to 12 years old; across New Zealand, 53 in 100.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2026 so far; 18 of the 26 are 9 to 12 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 8 and under | 4 |
| 9 | 6 |
| 10 | 1 |
| 11 | 7 |
| 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 1 |
| 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 26 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 8 times, at 2 meets; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand raced 15 times.
Number of swimmers by the number of races they swam in 2026 so far; typical is the median.
| Races | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | 15 |
| 11 to 20 | 5 |
| 21 to 30 | 5 |
| 31 to 40 | 0 |
| 41 to 50 | 1 |
| 51 or more | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 26 swimmers
When do Dolphin swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 15 Feb, with 95 races; all told, 329 races and about 33.2 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 | 95 |
| 6 | 16 |
| 7 | 95 |
| 8 | 1 |
| 9 | 28 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 39 |
| 12 | 11 |
| 13 | 13 |
| 14 | 1 |
| 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 29 |
| 18 | 0 |
| 19 | 0 |
| 20 | 0 |
| 21 | 0 |
| 22 | 0 |
| 23 | 0 |
| 24 | 0 |
| 25 | 0 |
| 26 | 0 |
| 27 | 0 |
| 28 | 0 |
| 29 | 0 |
| 30 | 0 |
| 31 | 0 |
| 32 | 0 |
| 33 | 0 |
| 34 | 0 |
| 35 | 0 |
| 36 | 0 |
| 37 | 0 |
| 38 | 0 |
| 39 | 0 |
| 40 | 0 |
| 41 | 0 |
| 42 | 0 |
| 43 | 0 |
| 44 | 0 |
| 45 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 329 races