Fiordland Swimming Club
Southland · South Island
A typical Fiordland swimmer in 2025, 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 Fiordland?
8 swimmers raced for Fiordland in 2025. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
8 of 8 swimmers who also raced in 2024 scored higher in 2025, with a typical change of +16 points; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand: +44.
Swimmers who scored higher than in 2024, per 100; only those who raced in both years.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Fiordland | 100 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 92 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 against 2024 · n = 8 swimmers
Who stays with Fiordland?
8 of 15 Fiordland swimmers from 2024 raced for Fiordland again in 2025, about the same as the 69 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 2024, per 100: whether they raced for Fiordland in 2025.
| Swimmers of 2024 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Fiordland | 53 |
| Raced for another club | 0 |
| No race in 2025 | 47 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 2024 and 2025 · n = 15 swimmers of 2024
Who is still racing for Fiordland years later?
Of Fiordland swimmers of a year, 53 in 100 raced for Fiordland again the next year and 27 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 Fiordland 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiordland | 53 | 27 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 67 | 47 | 32 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 5 | — | — | — |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 70 swimmer-years one year on
How has Fiordland changed over the years?
No swimmer has raced for Fiordland in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov) yet; in the same months of 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov), 8.
Swimmers with at least one race for Fiordland from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 0 |
| 2017 | 4 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 8 |
| 2026 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Fiordland, and who left?
0 swimmers raced for Fiordland in 2026, against 8 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 0 stayed, 8 left (8 stopped racing, 0 raced for other clubs); nobody joined.
Swimmers with a race for Fiordland 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 Fiordland swimmer is faster than 46 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: 45 in 100 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 Fiordland swimmer | 46 |
| A typical New Zealand swimmer | 50 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · each set beside New Zealand swimmers of the same age and gender · n = 8 swimmers with points
How does Fiordland compare with other clubs?
It is 56th of 117 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 12th of 37 clubs of 5 to 24 swimmers (3rd of 7 in Southland).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Fiordland | In NZ | Clubs of 5 to 24 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers46 of 100 | 56th of 117 | 12th of 37 |
| Swimmers8 | 107th of 117 | 27th of 37 |
| Kept, beyond their age−15 in 100 | 92nd of 114 | 17th of 34 |
| Gained more than their peers0 in 100 | 108th of 109 | 28th of 29 |
| Under a NZ Age Group time0 | 87th of 113 | 14th of 33 |
Where are they strongest?
Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Fiordland swimmers rank highest in freestyle (faster than 46 of every 100) and lowest in medley (20); by distance, they stand highest at 50 m (47).
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 | 46 | 8 |
| Backstroke | 33 | 8 |
| Breaststroke | 23 | 8 |
| Medley | 20 | 6 |
| 50 m | 47 | 8 |
| 100–200 m | 22 | 7 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 8 swimmers with points
Where did Fiordland race?
Fiordland swimmers raced at 8 meets in 2025.
The latest threeEvery meet
Did Fiordland swimmers race at school meets?
6 swimmers from Fiordland swam 21 races at 1 school meet in 2025.
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 9 in 10 swimmers are 9 to 13 years old; across New Zealand, nearly 2 in 3.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2025; 7 of the 8 are 9 to 13 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 9 | 2 |
| 10 | 1 |
| 11 | 3 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 1 |
| 14 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · n = 8 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 8 times, at 2 meets; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand raced 16 times.
Number of swimmers by the number of races they swam in 2025; typical is the median.
| Races | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | 7 |
| 11 to 20 | 0 |
| 21 to 30 | 0 |
| 31 to 40 | 1 |
| 41 to 50 | 0 |
| 51 or more | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · n = 8 swimmers
When do Fiordland swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2025 was 1 Mar, with 22 races; all told, 81 races and about 5.6 km of racing.
Each cell is a week of 2025, 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 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 |
| 8 | 0 |
| 9 | 22 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 8 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 0 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 0 |
| 19 | 0 |
| 20 | 7 |
| 21 | 0 |
| 22 | 5 |
| 23 | 0 |
| 24 | 0 |
| 25 | 10 |
| 26 | 0 |
| 27 | 0 |
| 28 | 0 |
| 29 | 0 |
| 30 | 0 |
| 31 | 0 |
| 32 | 0 |
| 33 | 0 |
| 34 | 0 |
| 35 | 0 |
| 36 | 0 |
| 37 | 6 |
| 38 | 0 |
| 39 | 0 |
| 40 | 0 |
| 41 | 0 |
| 42 | 0 |
| 43 | 0 |
| 44 | 0 |
| 45 | 0 |
| 46 | 11 |
| 47 | 12 |
| 48 | 0 |
| 49 | 0 |
| 50 | 0 |
| 51 | 0 |
| 52 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · n = 81 races