Kings Swim Club
Auckland · North Island
A typical Kings 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 Kings?
29 swimmers raced for Kings in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
10 of 11 swimmers who also raced in the same months of 2025 scored higher this year, with a typical change of +53 points, about the same as the +56 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 | |
|---|---|
| Kings | 91 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 94 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 11 swimmers
Who stays with Kings?
11 of 17 Kings swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Kings again this year, about the same as the 68 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025, per 100: whether they raced for Kings in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Kings | 65 |
| Raced for another club | 6 |
| No race this year | 29 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 17 swimmers of 2025
Where do Kings swimmers come from, and go?
7 swimmers joined Kings from another club and 1 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most came from Parnell (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 |
|---|---|---|
| Parnell | 5 | – |
| Other clubs | 2 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 8 moves
How has Kings changed over the years?
29 swimmers raced for Kings in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 71% more than in the same months of 2025, its first year with results in these months; across New Zealand, 2% fewer than in 2025.
Swimmers with at least one race for Kings from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 |
| 2026 | 29 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Kings, and who left?
29 swimmers raced for Kings in 2026, against 17 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 11 stayed, 6 left (5 stopped racing, 1 raced for other clubs); 18 joined: 13 new to racing, 5 from other clubs, 0 back after a break.
Swimmers with a race for Kings 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 2024 to 2026
How fast are they for their age?
A typical Kings swimmer is faster than 61 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: nearly 2 in 5 of them are slower 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 Kings swimmer | 61 |
| 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 = 29 swimmers with points
How does Kings compare with other clubs?
It is 17th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 9th of 59 clubs of 25 to 99 swimmers (8th of 15 in Auckland).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Kings | In NZ | Clubs of 25 to 99 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers61 of 100 | 17th of 106 | 9th of 59 |
| Swimmers29 | 70th of 106 | 52nd of 59 |
| Kept, beyond their age−3 in 100 | 68th of 104 | 40th of 59 |
| Gained more than their peers59 in 100 | 13th of 100 | 8th of 59 |
Where are they strongest?
Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Kings swimmers rank highest in breaststroke (faster than 65 of every 100) and lowest in butterfly (45).
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 | 49 | 29 |
| Backstroke | 55 | 26 |
| Breaststroke | 65 | 27 |
| Butterfly | 45 | 20 |
| Medley | 51 | 21 |
| 50 m | 61 | 29 |
| 100–200 m | 59 | 23 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 29 swimmers with points
Where did Kings race?
Kings swimmers raced at 19 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
Did Kings swimmers race at school meets?
4 swimmers from Kings swam 25 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?
Nearly 7 in 10 swimmers are 10 or 11 years old; across New Zealand, nearly 3 in 10.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2026 so far; 20 of the 29 are 10 or 11 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 8 and under | 2 |
| 9 | 4 |
| 10 | 8 |
| 11 | 12 |
| 12 | 3 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 29 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 19 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 | 11 |
| 11 to 20 | 6 |
| 21 to 30 | 5 |
| 31 to 40 | 5 |
| 41 to 50 | 1 |
| 51 or more | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 29 swimmers
When do Kings swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 24 May, with 80 races; all told, 554 races and about 45.8 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 | 18 |
| 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 40 |
| 8 | 0 |
| 9 | 73 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 57 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 0 |
| 19 | 1 |
| 20 | 0 |
| 21 | 80 |
| 22 | 0 |
| 23 | 7 |
| 24 | 0 |
| 25 | 14 |
| 26 | 65 |
| 27 | 0 |
| 28 | 0 |
| 29 | 22 |
| 30 | 5 |
| 31 | 0 |
| 32 | 0 |
| 33 | 47 |
| 34 | 0 |
| 35 | 24 |
| 36 | 0 |
| 37 | 0 |
| 38 | 31 |
| 39 | 0 |
| 40 | 0 |
| 41 | 0 |
| 42 | 12 |
| 43 | 0 |
| 44 | 0 |
| 45 | 58 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 554 races
How much slower is the second half?
A typical Kings swimmer swims the second half of a race 13.6% slower than the first; swimmer by swimmer, they slow down typically 3.4% more than 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 | |
|---|---|
| Kings | 13.6% |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 10.7% |
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 = 15 swimmers