Hawera Swimming Club
Taranaki · North Island
A typical Hawera 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 Hawera?
24 swimmers raced for Hawera in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
6 of 7 swimmers who also raced in the same months of 2025 scored higher this year, with a typical change of +74 points; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand: +60.
Swimmers who scored higher than in the same months of 2025, per 100; only those who raced in both years.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Hawera | 86 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 95 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 7 swimmers
Who stays with Hawera?
8 of 12 Hawera swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Hawera again this year, about the same as 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 Hawera in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Hawera | 67 |
| Raced for another club | 17 |
| No race this year | 17 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 12 swimmers of 2025 · shares are rounded, so they add to 101
Where do Hawera swimmers come from, and go?
3 swimmers joined Hawera from another club and 15 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most went to Stratford Flyers (9).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stratford Flyers | – | 9 |
| Other clubs | 3 | 6 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 18 moves
Who is still racing for Hawera years later?
Of Hawera swimmers of a year, 60 in 100 raced for Hawera again the next year and 40 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 Hawera 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawera | 60 | 40 | 22 | 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 = 186 swimmer-years one year on
How has Hawera changed over the years?
24 swimmers raced for Hawera in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 8% fewer than in the same months of 2016 and 100% more than in 2025, the fewest; across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.
Swimmers with at least one race for Hawera from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 26 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 19 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 20 |
| 2023 | 23 |
| 2024 | 23 |
| 2025 | 12 |
| 2026 | 24 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Hawera, and who left?
24 swimmers raced for Hawera in 2026, against 12 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 8 stayed, 4 left (2 stopped racing, 2 raced for other clubs); 16 joined: 14 new to racing, 0 from other clubs, 2 back after a break.
Swimmers with a race for Hawera 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 Hawera swimmer is faster than 22 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: nearly 1 in 6 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 Hawera swimmer | 22 |
| 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 = 24 swimmers with points
How does Hawera compare with other clubs?
It is 99th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 25th of 29 clubs of 5 to 24 swimmers (5th of 5 in Taranaki).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Hawera | In NZ | Clubs of 5 to 24 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers22 of 100 | 99th of 106 | 25th of 29 |
| Swimmers24 | 78th of 106 | 1st of 29 |
| Kept, beyond their age+1 in 100 | 56th of 104 | 11th of 27 |
| Gained more than their peers71 in 100 | 1st of 100 | 1st of 23 |
| Under a NZ Age Group time0 | 86th of 105 | 13th of 29 |
Where are they strongest?
Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Hawera swimmers rank highest in freestyle (faster than 22 of every 100) and lowest in backstroke (18); by distance, they stand highest at 50 m (24).
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 | 22 | 24 |
| Backstroke | 18 | 19 |
| Breaststroke | 18 | 24 |
| Butterfly | 22 | 9 |
| Medley | 19 | 6 |
| 50 m | 24 | 24 |
| 100–200 m | 24 | 19 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 24 swimmers with points
Where did Hawera race?
Hawera swimmers raced at 19 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
Did Hawera swimmers race at school meets?
1 swimmer from Hawera swam 9 races at 1 school meet 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?
83 in 100 swimmers are 10 to 12 years old; across New Zealand, 44 in 100.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2026 so far; 20 of the 24 are 10 to 12 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 9 | 3 |
| 10 | 4 |
| 11 | 7 |
| 12 | 9 |
| 13 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 24 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 16 times, at 4 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 | 7 |
| 11 to 20 | 9 |
| 21 to 30 | 5 |
| 31 to 40 | 0 |
| 41 to 50 | 1 |
| 51 or more | 2 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 24 swimmers
When do Hawera swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 22 Jul, with 72 races; all told, 510 races and about 31.7 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 | 88 |
| 6 | 6 |
| 7 | 19 |
| 8 | 0 |
| 9 | 10 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 4 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 0 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 32 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 59 |
| 19 | 0 |
| 20 | 0 |
| 21 | 6 |
| 22 | 10 |
| 23 | 14 |
| 24 | 0 |
| 25 | 0 |
| 26 | 0 |
| 27 | 0 |
| 28 | 0 |
| 29 | 91 |
| 30 | 0 |
| 31 | 0 |
| 32 | 9 |
| 33 | 0 |
| 34 | 0 |
| 35 | 0 |
| 36 | 57 |
| 37 | 0 |
| 38 | 57 |
| 39 | 0 |
| 40 | 27 |
| 41 | 0 |
| 42 | 0 |
| 43 | 0 |
| 44 | 21 |
| 45 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 510 races