RNZAF Base Swimming
Auckland · North Island
A typical RNZAF Base 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 RNZAF Base?
6 swimmers raced for RNZAF Base in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
6 of 6 swimmers who also raced in the same months of 2025 scored higher this year, with a typical change of +35 points; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand: +49.
Swimmers who scored higher than in the same months of 2025, per 100; only those who raced in both years.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| RNZAF Base | 100 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 76 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 6 swimmers
Who stays with RNZAF Base?
6 of 7 RNZAF Base swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for RNZAF Base again this year; for swimmers of the same age across New Zealand, 61 in 100.
Swimmers of 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025, per 100: whether they raced for RNZAF Base in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for RNZAF Base | 86 |
| Raced for another club | 0 |
| No race this year | 14 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 7 swimmers of 2025
Where do RNZAF Base swimmers come from, and go?
3 swimmers joined RNZAF Base from another club and 8 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most went to North Shore (7).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| North Shore | – | 7 |
| Other clubs | 3 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 11 moves
Who is still racing for RNZAF Base years later?
Of RNZAF Base swimmers of a year, 60 in 100 raced for RNZAF Base again the next year and 34 in 100 two years on; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 65 in 100 and 44 in 100.
Swimmers of each year since 2016 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): the share with a club race for RNZAF Base 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RNZAF Base | 60 | 34 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 65 | 44 | 29 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 146 swimmer-years one year on
How has RNZAF Base changed over the years?
6 swimmers raced for RNZAF Base in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 76% fewer than in the same months of 2016; 14% fewer than in 2025; across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.
Swimmers with at least one race for RNZAF Base from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 25 |
| 2017 | 24 |
| 2018 | 22 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 |
| 2026 | 6 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined RNZAF Base, and who left?
6 swimmers raced for RNZAF Base in 2026, against 7 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 6 stayed, 1 left (1 stopped racing, 0 raced for other clubs); nobody joined.
Swimmers with a race for RNZAF Base 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 RNZAF Base swimmer is faster than 36 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: 3 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 RNZAF Base swimmer | 36 |
| 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 = 6 swimmers with points
How does RNZAF Base compare with other clubs?
It is 79th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 18th of 29 clubs of 5 to 24 swimmers (14th of 15 in Auckland).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| RNZAF Base | In NZ | Clubs of 5 to 24 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers36 of 100 | 79th of 106 | 18th of 29 |
| Swimmers6 | 101st of 106 | 24th of 29 |
| Kept, beyond their age+25 in 100 | 1st of 104 | 1st of 27 |
| Gained more than their peers50 in 100 | 37th of 100 | 5th 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, RNZAF Base swimmers rank highest in butterfly (faster than 43 of every 100) and lowest in medley (31); by distance, they stand lowest at 100–200 m (27).
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 | 34 | 6 |
| Backstroke | 36 | 5 |
| Breaststroke | 39 | 6 |
| Butterfly | 43 | 6 |
| Medley | 31 | 6 |
| 50 m | 41 | 6 |
| 100–200 m | 27 | 6 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 6 swimmers with points
Where did RNZAF Base race?
RNZAF Base swimmers raced at 6 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
Did RNZAF Base swimmers race at school meets?
1 swimmer from RNZAF Base swam 1 race 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?
They are 11 or older; across New Zealand, nearly 2 in 3 are 10 to 14.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2026 so far.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 11 | 1 |
| 12 | 1 |
| 13 | 0 |
| 14 | 1 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 1 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 and over | 2 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 6 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 16 times, at 3 meets; swimmers of the same age across New Zealand raced 18 times.
Number of swimmers by the number of races they swam in 2026 so far; typical is the median.
| Races | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | 2 |
| 11 to 20 | 2 |
| 21 to 30 | 2 |
| 31 to 40 | 0 |
| 41 to 50 | 0 |
| 51 or more | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 6 swimmers
When do RNZAF Base swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 15 Feb, with 25 races; all told, 98 races and about 8.8 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 | 36 |
| 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 25 |
| 8 | 5 |
| 9 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 |
| 12 | 9 |
| 13 | 5 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 0 |
| 19 | 18 |
| 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 | 0 |
| 43 | 0 |
| 44 | 0 |
| 45 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 98 races
How much slower is the second half?
A typical RNZAF Base swimmer swims the second half of a race 7% slower than the first; swimmers of the same age and gender in the same events across New Zealand: 9%.
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 | |
|---|---|
| RNZAF Base | 7% |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 9% |
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 = 6 swimmers