Papakura Swimming Club
Auckland · North Island
A typical Papakura 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 Papakura?
10 swimmers raced for Papakura in 2025. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
8 of 10 swimmers who also raced in 2024 scored higher in 2025, with a typical change of +41 points, about the same as the +56 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers who scored higher than in 2024, per 100; only those who raced in both years.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Papakura | 80 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 85 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 against 2024 · n = 10 swimmers
Who stays with Papakura?
10 of 17 Papakura swimmers from 2024 raced for Papakura again in 2025, about the same as the 64 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 2024, per 100: whether they raced for Papakura in 2025.
| Swimmers of 2024 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Papakura | 59 |
| Raced for another club | 6 |
| No race in 2025 | 35 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 2024 and 2025 · n = 17 swimmers of 2024
Where do Papakura swimmers come from, and go?
15 swimmers joined Papakura from another club and 22 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most came from Manurewa (6), the most went to Pukekohe (13).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pukekohe | 3 | 13 |
| Manurewa | 6 | – |
| Howick Pakuranga | – | 4 |
| Fulton Amateur Team | 3 | – |
| Other clubs | 3 | 5 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 37 moves
Who is still racing for Papakura years later?
Of Papakura swimmers of a year, 61 in 100 raced for Papakura again the next year and 36 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 Papakura 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Papakura | 61 | 36 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 65 | 43 | 28 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 340 swimmer-years one year on
How has Papakura changed over the years?
No swimmer has raced for Papakura in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov) yet; in the same months of 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov), 10.
Swimmers with at least one race for Papakura from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 39 |
| 2017 | 47 |
| 2018 | 44 |
| 2019 | 46 |
| 2020 | 50 |
| 2021 | 40 |
| 2022 | 28 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 17 |
| 2025 | 10 |
| 2026 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Papakura, and who left?
0 swimmers raced for Papakura in 2026, against 10 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 0 stayed, 10 left (5 stopped racing, 5 raced for other clubs); nobody joined.
Swimmers with a race for Papakura 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 Papakura swimmer is faster than 62 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: nearly 1 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 Papakura swimmer | 62 |
| 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 = 10 swimmers with points
How does Papakura compare with other clubs?
It is 17th of 117 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 4th of 37 clubs of 5 to 24 swimmers (7th of 20 in Auckland).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Papakura | In NZ | Clubs of 5 to 24 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers62 of 100 | 17th of 117 | 4th of 37 |
| Swimmers10 | 102nd of 117 | 22nd of 37 |
| Kept, beyond their age−5 in 100 | 74th of 114 | 12th of 34 |
| Gained more than their peers50 in 100 | 47th of 109 | 9th 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, Papakura swimmers rank highest in backstroke (faster than 74 of every 100) and lowest in breaststroke (41).
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 | 66 | 10 |
| Backstroke | 74 | 8 |
| Breaststroke | 41 | 6 |
| Butterfly | 70 | 9 |
| Medley | 65 | 7 |
| 50 m | 65 | 10 |
| 100–200 m | 65 | 10 |
| 400 m and longer | 61 | 8 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 10 swimmers with points
How many swim national qualifying times?
0 of 5 Papakura swimmers aged 13 and over who raced SC swam at least one race faster than the 2026 NZ Short Course qualifying time for their age; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 42 in 100.
Swimmers aged 13 and over who raced SC, 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 | |
|---|---|
| Papakura | 0 |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 42 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · age at the last race, with an SC race · n = 5 swimmers aged 13 and over
Where did Papakura race?
Papakura swimmers raced at 14 meets in 2025.
The latest threeEvery meet
How old are the swimmers?
3 in 5 swimmers are 11 to 15 years old; across New Zealand, nearly 3 in 5.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2025; 6 of the 10 are 11 to 15 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 10 | 2 |
| 11 | 2 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 1 |
| 14 | 1 |
| 15 | 2 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 2 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · n = 10 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 16 times, at 4 meets; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand raced 24 times.
Number of swimmers by the number of races they swam in 2025; typical is the median.
| Races | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | 2 |
| 11 to 20 | 5 |
| 21 to 30 | 2 |
| 31 to 40 | 1 |
| 41 to 50 | 0 |
| 51 or more | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · n = 10 swimmers
When do Papakura swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2025 was 23 Feb, with 22 races; all told, 168 races and about 31.8 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 | 13 |
| 4 | 23 |
| 5 | 13 |
| 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 18 |
| 8 | 40 |
| 9 | 0 |
| 10 | 20 |
| 11 | 2 |
| 12 | 20 |
| 13 | 2 |
| 14 | 11 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 2 |
| 19 | 0 |
| 20 | 4 |
| 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 | 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 = 168 races
How much slower is the second half?
A typical Papakura swimmer swims the second half of a race 8% slower than the first; swimmers of the same age and gender in the same events across New Zealand: 7%.
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 | |
|---|---|
| Papakura | 8% |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 7% |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · with the halfway split recorded in a race of 100 m or more · n = 6 swimmers