Kowhai Swimming Club
Auckland · North Island
A typical Kowhai 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 Kowhai?
9 swimmers raced for Kowhai in 2025. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
4 of 6 swimmers who also raced in 2024 scored higher in 2025, with a typical change of +14 points; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand: +48.
Swimmers who scored higher than in 2024, per 100; only those who raced in both years.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Kowhai | 67 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 86 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 against 2024 · n = 6 swimmers
Who stays with Kowhai?
25 in 100 Kowhai swimmers from 2024 raced for Kowhai again in 2025, less than the 63 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 2024, per 100: whether they raced for Kowhai in 2025.
| Swimmers of 2024 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Kowhai | 25 |
| Raced for another club | 14 |
| No race in 2025 | 61 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 2024 and 2025 · n = 28 swimmers of 2024
Where do Kowhai swimmers come from, and go?
14 swimmers joined Kowhai from another club and 12 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most came from Coast (11), the most went to Coast (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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coast | 11 | 5 |
| North Shore | – | 4 |
| Other clubs | 3 | 3 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 26 moves
Who is still racing for Kowhai years later?
Of Kowhai swimmers of a year, 62 in 100 raced for Kowhai again the next year and 40 in 100 two years on; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 65 in 100 and 43 in 100.
Swimmers of each year since 2016 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): the share with a club race for Kowhai 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kowhai | 62 | 40 | 28 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 65 | 43 | 29 | 19 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 318 swimmer-years one year on
How has Kowhai changed over the years?
No swimmer has raced for Kowhai in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov) yet; in the same months of 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov), 9.
Swimmers with at least one race for Kowhai from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 29 |
| 2017 | 38 |
| 2018 | 40 |
| 2019 | 43 |
| 2020 | 40 |
| 2021 | 36 |
| 2022 | 27 |
| 2023 | 28 |
| 2024 | 28 |
| 2025 | 9 |
| 2026 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Kowhai, and who left?
0 swimmers raced for Kowhai in 2026, against 9 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 0 stayed, 9 left (6 stopped racing, 3 raced for other clubs); nobody joined.
Swimmers with a race for Kowhai 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 Kowhai swimmer is faster than 48 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand.
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 Kowhai swimmer | 48 |
| 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 = 9 swimmers with points
How does Kowhai compare with other clubs?
It is 49th of 117 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 11th of 37 clubs of 5 to 24 swimmers (14th of 20 in Auckland).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Kowhai | In NZ | Clubs of 5 to 24 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers48 of 100 | 49th of 117 | 11th of 37 |
| Swimmers9 | 104th of 117 | 24th of 37 |
| Kept, beyond their age−38 in 100 | 111th of 114 | 31st of 34 |
| Gained more than their peers17 in 100 | 106th of 109 | 26th 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, Kowhai swimmers rank highest in breaststroke (faster than 57 of every 100) and lowest in freestyle (35).
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 | 35 | 9 |
| Backstroke | 37 | 6 |
| Breaststroke | 57 | 9 |
| Medley | 38 | 7 |
| 50 m | 51 | 8 |
| 100–200 m | 40 | 7 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 9 swimmers with points
Where did Kowhai race?
Kowhai swimmers raced at 11 meets in 2025.
The latest threeEvery meet
How old are the swimmers?
Nearly 4 in 5 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 9 are 9 to 13 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 9 | 3 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 1 |
| 12 | 1 |
| 13 | 2 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · n = 9 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 5 times, at 1 meet; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand raced 17 times.
Number of swimmers by the number of races they swam in 2025; typical is the median.
| Races | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | 5 |
| 11 to 20 | 4 |
| 21 to 30 | 0 |
| 31 to 40 | 0 |
| 41 to 50 | 0 |
| 51 or more | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · n = 9 swimmers
When do Kowhai swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2025 was 23 Feb, with 14 races; all told, 85 races and about 7.9 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 | 6 |
| 8 | 14 |
| 9 | 0 |
| 10 | 2 |
| 11 | 9 |
| 12 | 8 |
| 13 | 0 |
| 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 0 |
| 19 | 0 |
| 20 | 13 |
| 21 | 0 |
| 22 | 0 |
| 23 | 0 |
| 24 | 0 |
| 25 | 0 |
| 26 | 17 |
| 27 | 7 |
| 28 | 0 |
| 29 | 0 |
| 30 | 3 |
| 31 | 0 |
| 32 | 3 |
| 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 2025 · n = 85 races