Evolution Aquatics Tauranga
Bay of Plenty · North Island
A typical Evolution Aquatics Tauranga 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 Evolution Aquatics Tauranga?
51 swimmers raced for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
96 in 100 swimmers who also raced in the same months of 2025 scored higher this year, with a typical change of +45 points, about the same as the +50 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers who scored higher than in the same months of 2025, per 100; only those who raced in both years.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Evolution Aquatics Tauranga | 96 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 89 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 28 swimmers
Who stays with Evolution Aquatics Tauranga?
48 in 100 Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga again this year, less than the 66 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025, per 100: whether they raced for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga | 48 |
| Raced for another club | 3 |
| No race this year | 49 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 61 swimmers of 2025
Where do Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmers come from, and go?
82 swimmers joined Evolution Aquatics Tauranga from another club and 58 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most came from Greerton (64), the most went to Liz van Welie Aquatics (29).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Greerton | 64 | – |
| Liz van Welie Aquatics | 10 | 29 |
| Mt Maunganui | – | 15 |
| Te Arawa | – | 3 |
| Other clubs | 8 | 11 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 140 moves
Who is still racing for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga years later?
Of Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmers of a year, 56 in 100 raced for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga again the next year and 36 in 100 two years on; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 66 in 100 and 45 in 100.
Swimmers of each year since 2016 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): the share with a club race for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evolution Aquatics | 56 | 36 | 23 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 66 | 45 | 30 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 1,082 swimmer-years one year on
How has Evolution Aquatics Tauranga changed over the years?
51 swimmers raced for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 44% fewer than in the same months of 2016; 16% fewer than in 2025; the most were in 2020 (175); across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.
Swimmers with at least one race for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 91 |
| 2017 | 100 |
| 2018 | 102 |
| 2019 | 158 |
| 2020 | 175 |
| 2021 | 124 |
| 2022 | 103 |
| 2023 | 92 |
| 2024 | 76 |
| 2025 | 61 |
| 2026 | 51 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Evolution Aquatics Tauranga, and who left?
51 swimmers raced for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga in 2026, against 61 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 29 stayed, 32 left (30 stopped racing, 2 raced for other clubs); 22 joined: 17 new to racing, 3 from other clubs, 2 back after a break.
Swimmers with a race for Evolution Aquatics Tauranga 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 Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmer is faster than 44 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: nearly 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 Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmer | 44 |
| 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 = 49 swimmers with points
How does Evolution Aquatics Tauranga compare with other clubs?
It is 55th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 32nd of 59 clubs of 25 to 99 swimmers (3rd of 8 in Bay of Plenty).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Evolution Aquatics Tauranga | In NZ | Clubs of 25 to 99 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers44 of 100 | 55th of 106 | 32nd of 59 |
| Swimmers51 | 49th of 106 | 31st of 59 |
| Kept, beyond their age−18 in 100 | 93rd of 104 | 56th of 59 |
| Gained more than their peers43 in 100 | 60th of 100 | 39th of 59 |
| Under a NZ Age Group time3 | 54th of 105 | 36th of 58 |
Where are they strongest?
Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmers rank highest in butterfly (faster than 59 of every 100) and lowest in medley (37); by distance, they stand lowest at 100–200 m (28).
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 | 43 | 49 |
| Backstroke | 48 | 40 |
| Breaststroke | 40 | 34 |
| Butterfly | 59 | 21 |
| Medley | 37 | 32 |
| 50 m | 48 | 48 |
| 100–200 m | 28 | 47 |
| 400 m and longer | 52 | 8 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 49 swimmers with points
How many swim national qualifying times?
3 of 13 Evolution Aquatics Tauranga 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 33 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 | |
|---|---|
| Evolution Aquatics Tauranga | 23 |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 33 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · age at the last race · n = 13 swimmers aged 13 to 16
Where did Evolution Aquatics Tauranga race?
Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmers raced at 17 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
Did Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmers race at school meets?
13 swimmers from Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swam 58 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.
How old are the swimmers?
3 in 5 swimmers are 10 to 13 years old; across New Zealand, 56 in 100.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2026 so far; 31 of the 51 are 10 to 13 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 8 and under | 3 |
| 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 |
| 11 | 8 |
| 12 | 12 |
| 13 | 4 |
| 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 4 |
| 16 | 2 |
| 17 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 51 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 14 times, at 3 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 | 22 |
| 11 to 20 | 11 |
| 21 to 30 | 8 |
| 31 to 40 | 4 |
| 41 to 50 | 5 |
| 51 or more | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 51 swimmers
When do Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 29 Mar, with 131 races; all told, 891 races and about 83.5 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 | 66 |
| 4 | 0 |
| 5 | 32 |
| 6 | 42 |
| 7 | 83 |
| 8 | 0 |
| 9 | 24 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 131 |
| 14 | 4 |
| 15 | 10 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 4 |
| 19 | 0 |
| 20 | 0 |
| 21 | 0 |
| 22 | 131 |
| 23 | 0 |
| 24 | 0 |
| 25 | 0 |
| 26 | 81 |
| 27 | 0 |
| 28 | 0 |
| 29 | 8 |
| 30 | 104 |
| 31 | 0 |
| 32 | 10 |
| 33 | 83 |
| 34 | 0 |
| 35 | 0 |
| 36 | 0 |
| 37 | 0 |
| 38 | 32 |
| 39 | 0 |
| 40 | 0 |
| 41 | 0 |
| 42 | 0 |
| 43 | 42 |
| 44 | 0 |
| 45 | 4 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 891 races
How much slower is the second half?
A typical Evolution Aquatics Tauranga swimmer swims the second half of a race 9.4% slower than the first; swimmers of the same age and gender in the same events across New Zealand: 8.6%.
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 | |
|---|---|
| Evolution Aquatics Tauranga | 9.4% |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 8.6% |
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 = 9 swimmers