Whangamata Amateur Swimming Club
Waikato · North Island
A typical Whangamata Amateur 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 Whangamata Amateur?
7 swimmers raced for Whangamata Amateur in 2026 so far. Each has a page of their own.
How often do they set personal bests?
Of their races in an event they had swum before, 82 in 100 were personal bests; for swimmers of the same age who race as often, 66 in 100.
Personal bests per 100 races in an event the swimmer had swum before.
| Per 100 races | |
|---|---|
| Whangamata Amateur | 82 |
| Swimmers of the same age who race as often | 66 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 7 swimmers
Who stays with Whangamata Amateur?
4 of 13 Whangamata Amateur swimmers from the same months of 2025 raced for Whangamata Amateur again this year, less than the 64 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age.
Swimmers of 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025, per 100: whether they raced for Whangamata Amateur in the same months of 2026.
| Swimmers of 2025 | Per 100 |
|---|---|
| Raced for Whangamata Amateur | 31 |
| Raced for another club | 0 |
| No race this year | 69 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2025 and 2026 · n = 13 swimmers of 2025
How has Whangamata Amateur changed over the years?
7 swimmers raced for Whangamata Amateur in 2026 so far (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 75% more than in the same months of 2016; none in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; 46% fewer than in 2025; across New Zealand, 5% fewer than in 2016.
Swimmers with at least one race for Whangamata Amateur from 1 Jan to 10 Nov of each year.
| Year | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 13 |
| 2026 | 7 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov of every year 2016 to 2026
Who joined Whangamata Amateur, and who left?
7 swimmers raced for Whangamata Amateur in 2026, against 13 in 2025 (1 Jan to 10 Nov): 4 stayed, 9 left (9 stopped racing, 0 raced for other clubs); 3 joined: 3 new to racing, 0 from other clubs, 0 back after a break.
Swimmers with a race for Whangamata Amateur 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 Whangamata Amateur swimmer is faster than 53 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand. Yet they overlap: 47 in 100 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 Whangamata Amateur swimmer | 53 |
| 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 = 7 swimmers with points
How does Whangamata Amateur compare with other clubs?
It is 32nd of 106 clubs in New Zealand for how fast its swimmers are for their age and 6th of 29 clubs of 5 to 24 swimmers (4th of 11 in Waikato).
Places count clubs with at least 5 swimmers in the period, highest value first; equal values share a place.
Places
| Whangamata Amateur | In NZ | Clubs of 5 to 24 |
|---|---|---|
| Faster than … of 100 peers53 of 100 | 32nd of 106 | 6th of 29 |
| Swimmers7 | 99th of 106 | 22nd of 29 |
| Kept, beyond their age−33 in 100 | 103rd of 104 | 26th of 27 |
| Under a NZ Age Group time1 | 65th of 105 | 5th of 29 |
Where are they strongest?
Beside swimmers of the same age and gender, Whangamata Amateur swimmers rank highest in breaststroke (faster than 49 of every 100) and lowest in backstroke (30); by distance, they stand highest at 50 m (52).
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 | 46 | 7 |
| Backstroke | 30 | 6 |
| Breaststroke | 49 | 6 |
| 50 m | 52 | 7 |
| 100–200 m | 47 | 6 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · each stroke and distance against peers who raced it · n = 7 swimmers with points
Where did Whangamata Amateur race?
Whangamata Amateur swimmers raced at 9 meets in 2026 so far.
The latest threeEvery meet
Did Whangamata Amateur swimmers race at school meets?
1 swimmer from Whangamata Amateur swam 8 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?
They are 9 to 13 years old; 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 |
|---|---|
| 9 | 1 |
| 10 | 2 |
| 11 | 3 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 7 swimmers
How often do they race?
A typical swimmer raced 7 times, at 2 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 | 4 |
| 11 to 20 | 2 |
| 21 to 30 | 1 |
| 31 to 40 | 0 |
| 41 to 50 | 0 |
| 51 or more | 0 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 7 swimmers
When do Whangamata Amateur swimmers race?
The busiest day in 2026 so far was 7 Nov, with 18 races; all told, 71 races and about 6.4 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 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 |
| 8 | 5 |
| 9 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 11 |
| 12 | 0 |
| 13 | 6 |
| 14 | 0 |
| 15 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 12 |
| 19 | 0 |
| 20 | 0 |
| 21 | 0 |
| 22 | 0 |
| 23 | 0 |
| 24 | 4 |
| 25 | 0 |
| 26 | 7 |
| 27 | 8 |
| 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 | 18 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 1 Jan to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 71 races