Geraldine Swimming Club
Canterbury & West Coast · South Island
A typical Geraldine swimmer in 2022, 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 Geraldine?
10 swimmers raced for Geraldine in 2022. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
6 of 8 swimmers who also raced in 2021 scored higher in 2022, with a typical change of +14 points; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand: +58.
Swimmers who scored higher than in 2021, per 100; only those who raced in both years.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Geraldine | 75 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 88 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2022 against 2021 · n = 8 swimmers
Who stays with Geraldine?
8 of 15 Geraldine swimmers from 2021 raced for Geraldine again in 2022, about the same as the 61 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 2021, per 100: whether they raced for Geraldine in 2022.
| Swimmers of 2021 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Geraldine | 53 |
| Raced for another club | 0 |
| No race in 2022 | 47 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 2021 and 2022 · n = 15 swimmers of 2021
Where do Geraldine swimmers come from, and go?
2 swimmers joined Geraldine from another club and 5 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most went to Swim Timaru (5).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Swim Timaru | – | 5 |
| Other clubs | 2 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 7 moves
Who is still racing for Geraldine years later?
Of Geraldine swimmers of a year, 56 in 100 raced for Geraldine again the next year and 35 in 100 two years on; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 66 in 100 and 44 in 100.
Swimmers of each year since 2016 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): the share with a club race for Geraldine 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geraldine | 56 | 35 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 66 | 44 | 29 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 128 swimmer-years one year on
How has Geraldine changed over the years?
No swimmer has raced for Geraldine in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov) yet; in the same months of 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov), 0.
Swimmers with at least one race for Geraldine from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 28 |
| 2017 | 23 |
| 2018 | 23 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 13 |
| 2021 | 15 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Geraldine, and who left?
0 swimmers raced for Geraldine in 2023, against 10 in 2022 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 0 stayed, 10 left (8 stopped racing, 2 raced for other clubs); nobody joined.
Swimmers with a race for Geraldine 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 2023
How fast are they for their age?
A typical Geraldine swimmer is faster than 28 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: nearly 1 in 10 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 Geraldine swimmer | 28 |
| A typical New Zealand swimmer | 50 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2022 · each set beside New Zealand swimmers of the same age and gender · n = 10 swimmers with points
How does Geraldine compare with other clubs?
It is 95th of 112 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 21st of 28 clubs of 5 to 24 swimmers (14th of 17 in Canterbury & West Coast).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Geraldine | In NZ | Clubs of 5 to 24 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers28 of 100 | 95th of 112 | 21st of 28 |
| Swimmers10 | 103rd of 112 | 19th of 28 |
| Kept, beyond their age−7 in 100 | 77th of 106 | 12th of 25 |
| Gained more than their peers6 in 100 | 102nd of 104 | 21st of 23 |
| Under a NZ Age Group time0 | 90th of 111 | 14th of 27 |
Where are they strongest?
Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Geraldine swimmers rank highest in breaststroke (faster than 42 of every 100) and lowest in medley (21); by distance, they stand lowest at 100–200 m (15).
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 | 29 | 10 |
| Backstroke | 25 | 9 |
| Breaststroke | 42 | 6 |
| Butterfly | 31 | 5 |
| Medley | 21 | 6 |
| 50 m | 35 | 8 |
| 100–200 m | 15 | 9 |
| 400 m and longer | 16 | 5 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2022 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 10 swimmers with points
How many swim national qualifying times?
0 of 6 Geraldine swimmers aged 13 to 16 swam at least one race faster than the 2026 NZ Age Group qualifying time for their age; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 29 in 100.
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 | |
|---|---|
| Geraldine | 0 |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 29 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2022 · age at the last race · n = 6 swimmers aged 13 to 16
Where did Geraldine race?
Geraldine swimmers raced at 11 meets in 2022.
The latest threeEvery meet
How old are the swimmers?
7 in 10 swimmers are 11 to 14 years old; across New Zealand, 53 in 100.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2022; 7 of the 10 are 11 to 14 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 10 | 1 |
| 11 | 3 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 1 |
| 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2022 · n = 10 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 10 times, at 3 meets; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand raced 22 times.
Number of swimmers by the number of races they swam in 2022; typical is the median.
| Races | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | 5 |
| 11 to 20 | 3 |
| 21 to 30 | 0 |
| 31 to 40 | 2 |
| 41 to 50 | 0 |
| 51 or more | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2022 · n = 10 swimmers
When do Geraldine swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2022 was 8 Jan, with 70 races; all told, 157 races and about 18.9 km of racing.
Each cell is a week of 2022, 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 | 70 |
| 3 | 11 |
| 4 | 15 |
| 5 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 |
| 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 25 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 11 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 10 |
| 19 | 2 |
| 20 | 3 |
| 21 | 0 |
| 22 | 0 |
| 23 | 0 |
| 24 | 2 |
| 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 |
| 46 | 0 |
| 47 | 0 |
| 48 | 0 |
| 49 | 0 |
| 50 | 0 |
| 51 | 0 |
| 52 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2022 · n = 157 races