Hokitika Amateur Swim Club
Canterbury & West Coast · South Island
A typical Hokitika Amateur 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 Hokitika Amateur?
34 swimmers raced for Hokitika Amateur in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
Of 21 swimmers in both years, 29 in 100 gained more points than is typical for swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before, clearly fewer than half; a typical gain of +28 points; swimmer by swimmer, typically 15 points fewer than them.
Each swimmer’s gain in best points* since the same months of 2025, at each age with 5 or more of them, set beside New Zealand swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before - level meaning the same quarter of best points for their age and gender then.
Columns: the typical gain in points at each age. Over them: points beyond swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before - more, fewer, grey where not clear.
| Age | Swimmers | Typical gain, points | Beyond swimmers of the same age, gender and level a year before, points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 7 | 19 | −15 |
| 12 | 5 | 49 | −5 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 21 swimmers
Who stays with Hokitika Amateur?
58 in 100 Hokitika Amateur swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Hokitika Amateur 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 Hokitika Amateur in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Hokitika Amateur | 58 |
| Raced for another club | 3 |
| No race this year | 39 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 36 swimmers of 2025
Where do Hokitika Amateur swimmers come from, and go?
2 swimmers joined Hokitika Amateur from another club and 8 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most went to Greymouth (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 |
|---|---|---|
| Greymouth | – | 5 |
| Other clubs | 2 | 3 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 10 moves
Who is still racing for Hokitika Amateur years later?
Of Hokitika Amateur swimmers of a year, 66 in 100 raced for Hokitika Amateur again the next year and 43 in 100 two years on; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 66 in 100 and 46 in 100.
Swimmers of each year since 2016 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): the share with a club race for Hokitika Amateur 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hokitika Amateur | 66 | 43 | 27 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 66 | 46 | 31 | 21 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 342 swimmer-years one year on
How has Hokitika Amateur changed over the years?
34 swimmers raced for Hokitika Amateur in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 10% more than in the same months of 2016 and 42% more than in 2023, the fewest; 6% fewer than in 2025; the most were in 2019 (46); across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.
Swimmers with at least one race for Hokitika Amateur from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 31 |
| 2017 | 35 |
| 2018 | 41 |
| 2019 | 46 |
| 2020 | 33 |
| 2021 | 25 |
| 2022 | 33 |
| 2023 | 24 |
| 2024 | 38 |
| 2025 | 36 |
| 2026 | 34 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Hokitika Amateur, and who left?
34 swimmers raced for Hokitika Amateur in 2026, against 36 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 21 stayed, 15 left (14 stopped racing, 1 raced for other clubs); 13 joined: 13 new to racing, 0 from other clubs, 0 back after a break.
Swimmers with a race for Hokitika Amateur 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 Hokitika Amateur swimmer is faster than 10 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 Hokitika Amateur swimmer | 10 |
| 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 = 34 swimmers with points
How does Hokitika Amateur compare with other clubs?
It is 105th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 59th of 59 clubs of 25 to 99 swimmers (17th 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
| Hokitika Amateur | In NZ | Clubs of 25 to 99 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers10 of 100 | 105th of 106 | 59th of 59 |
| Swimmers34 | 65th of 106 | 47th of 59 |
| Kept, beyond their age−8 in 100 | 76th of 104 | 45th of 59 |
| Gained more than their peers29 in 100 | 86th of 100 | 55th of 59 |
| Under a NZ Age Group time0 | 86th of 105 | 56th of 58 |
Where are they strongest?
Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Hokitika Amateur swimmers rank highest in breaststroke (faster than 12 of every 100) and lowest in medley (8).
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 | 11 | 33 |
| Backstroke | 10 | 31 |
| Breaststroke | 12 | 23 |
| Butterfly | 10 | 6 |
| Medley | 8 | 13 |
| 50 m | 10 | 34 |
| 100–200 m | 10 | 25 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 34 swimmers with points
Where did Hokitika Amateur race?
Hokitika Amateur swimmers raced at 5 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
How old are the swimmers?
2 in 3 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; 23 of the 34 are 10 to 12 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 8 and under | 1 |
| 9 | 6 |
| 10 | 8 |
| 11 | 7 |
| 12 | 8 |
| 13 | 2 |
| 14 | 2 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 34 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 | 18 |
| 11 to 20 | 9 |
| 21 to 30 | 5 |
| 31 to 40 | 2 |
| 41 to 50 | 0 |
| 51 or more | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 34 swimmers
When do Hokitika Amateur swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 8 Nov, with 135 races; all told, 397 races and about 32.8 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 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 |
| 8 | 117 |
| 9 | 0 |
| 10 | 68 |
| 11 | 0 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 28 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 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 | 49 |
| 43 | 0 |
| 44 | 0 |
| 45 | 135 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 397 races
How much slower is the second half?
A typical Hokitika Amateur swimmer swims the second half of a race 11% slower than the first, about the same as the 8% typical for swimmers of the same age and gender in the same events.
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 | |
|---|---|
| Hokitika Amateur | 11% |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 8% |
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 = 17 swimmers