Taupo Swimming Club
Bay of Plenty · North Island
A typical Taupo 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 Taupo?
13 swimmers raced for Taupo in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
Do they get faster?
6 of 8 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: +54.
Swimmers who scored higher than in the same months of 2025, per 100; only those who raced in both years.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Taupo | 75 |
| Swimmers of the same age across New Zealand | 90 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 against the same months of 2025 · n = 8 swimmers
Who stays with Taupo?
8 of 17 Taupo swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Taupo again this year, less than 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 Taupo in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Taupo | 47 |
| Raced for another club | 12 |
| No race this year | 41 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 17 swimmers of 2025
Where do Taupo swimmers come from, and go?
9 swimmers joined Taupo from another club and 40 left for one, 2016 to 2026; the most went to Te Arawa (20).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Te Arawa | – | 20 |
| Swim Rotorua | – | 6 |
| Other clubs | 9 | 14 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026, each year against the year before · n = 49 moves
Who is still racing for Taupo years later?
Of Taupo swimmers of a year, 57 in 100 raced for Taupo again the next year and 33 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 Taupo 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taupo | 57 | 33 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Same age and gender across New Zealand | 65 | 43 | 28 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026 · n = 488 swimmer-years one year on
How has Taupo changed over the years?
13 swimmers raced for Taupo in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 82% fewer than in the same months of 2016; 24% fewer than in 2025; the most were in 2018 (82); across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.
Swimmers with at least one race for Taupo from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 73 |
| 2017 | 79 |
| 2018 | 82 |
| 2019 | 79 |
| 2020 | 39 |
| 2021 | 32 |
| 2022 | 28 |
| 2023 | 26 |
| 2024 | 33 |
| 2025 | 17 |
| 2026 | 13 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Taupo, and who left?
13 swimmers raced for Taupo in 2026, against 17 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 8 stayed, 9 left (7 stopped racing, 2 raced for other clubs); 5 joined: 4 new to racing, 0 from other clubs, 1 back after a break.
Swimmers with a race for Taupo 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 Taupo swimmer is faster than 38 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: 1 in 5 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 Taupo swimmer | 38 |
| 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 = 13 swimmers with points
How does Taupo compare with other clubs?
It is 75th of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 17th of 29 clubs of 5 to 24 swimmers (6th of 8 in Bay of Plenty).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Taupo | In NZ | Clubs of 5 to 24 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers38 of 100 | 75th of 106 | 17th of 29 |
| Swimmers13 | 92nd of 106 | 15th of 29 |
| Kept, beyond their age−19 in 100 | 94th of 104 | 20th of 27 |
| Gained more than their peers25 in 100 | 90th of 100 | 15th 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, Taupo swimmers rank highest in freestyle (faster than 38 of every 100) and lowest in medley (27); by distance, they stand highest at 100–200 m (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 | 38 | 12 |
| Backstroke | 33 | 12 |
| Breaststroke | 36 | 11 |
| Butterfly | 29 | 8 |
| Medley | 27 | 11 |
| 50 m | 39 | 13 |
| 100–200 m | 41 | 13 |
| 400 m and longer | 30 | 6 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 13 swimmers with points
How many swim national qualifying times?
0 of 5 Taupo swimmers aged 13 and over swam at least one race faster than the 2026 NZ Open qualifying time; swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand: 33 in 100.
Swimmers aged 13 and over, per 100, with a race faster than the qualifying time for their gender, event and pool, beside New Zealand swimmers of the same age and gender.
| Per 100 | |
|---|---|
| Taupo | 0 |
| Swimmers of the same age and gender | 33 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · age at the last race · n = 5 swimmers aged 13 and over
Where did Taupo race?
Taupo swimmers raced at 14 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
How old are the swimmers?
77 in 100 swimmers are 11 to 14 years old; across New Zealand, 53 in 100.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race in 2026 so far; 10 of the 13 are 11 to 14 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 10 | 1 |
| 11 | 4 |
| 12 | 3 |
| 13 | 0 |
| 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 1 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 and over | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 13 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 22 times, at 4 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 | 4 |
| 11 to 20 | 2 |
| 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 = 13 swimmers
When do Taupo swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 9 Aug, with 36 races; all told, 250 races and about 29.1 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 | 43 |
| 4 | 0 |
| 5 | 4 |
| 6 | 1 |
| 7 | 24 |
| 8 | 21 |
| 9 | 17 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 34 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 2 |
| 18 | 0 |
| 19 | 0 |
| 20 | 0 |
| 21 | 0 |
| 22 | 29 |
| 23 | 0 |
| 24 | 0 |
| 25 | 0 |
| 26 | 14 |
| 27 | 0 |
| 28 | 0 |
| 29 | 0 |
| 30 | 0 |
| 31 | 0 |
| 32 | 36 |
| 33 | 17 |
| 34 | 0 |
| 35 | 0 |
| 36 | 0 |
| 37 | 0 |
| 38 | 0 |
| 39 | 0 |
| 40 | 0 |
| 41 | 0 |
| 42 | 0 |
| 43 | 8 |
| 44 | 0 |
| 45 | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 250 races