* Swimmers are those who raced at a meet in Swimming New Zealand’s results; club members who did not race are not counted.
Which clubs raced?
1 club from Hawke's Bay & Poverty Bay; the most swimmers came from Greendale (37 swimmers).
How strong was the field?
A typical swimmer here is faster than 40 of every 100 swimmers of the same age and gender across New Zealand, by their best race of 2025.
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). Each swimmer is set by their best race of 2025, not of this meet alone: the figure says how strong the swimmers who came are.
| Faster than … of 100 | |
|---|---|
| A typical swimmer here | 40 |
| A typical New Zealand swimmer | 50 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 2025 · n = 36 swimmers with points, each set beside New Zealand swimmers of the same age and gender
How many personal bests?
Of the races in an event the swimmer had swum before, 61 in 100 were personal bests, about the same as the 64 in 100 typical for swimmers of the same age who race as often.
Personal bests per 100 races in an event the swimmer had swum before.
| Per 100 races | |
|---|---|
| This meet | 61 |
| Swimmers of the same age who race as often | 64 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 28 Feb 2025 against 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2025 · n = 37 swimmers
How many swam national qualifying times?
None of the 8 swimmers aged 13 to 16 swam a race here faster than the 2026 NZ Age Group qualifying time for their age.
Swimmers aged 13 to 16 at this meet, with a race faster than the qualifying time for their age, gender, event and pool.
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 28 Feb 2025 · n = 8 swimmers aged 13 to 16
Who raced for the first time?
For 9 swimmers of the 37 this was the first meet in the records; most often among those aged 10: 4 of 7.
Swimmers with no club race before this meet in the records, which start in 2016.
| Age | First meet | Swimmers |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | 4 | 7 |
| 11 | 0 | 6 |
| 12 | 2 | 6 |
| 14 | 0 | 5 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 2016 to 10 Nov 2026 · n = 37 swimmers
Which events were swum most?
50 Breaststroke, SC was swum most: 24 races by 24 swimmers; 10 events in all.
Events by races swum, SC and LC counted apart.
How old are the swimmers?
51 in 100 swimmers are 10 to 12 years old.
Number of swimmers by age at their last race of the meet; 19 of the 37 are 10 to 12 years old.
| Age | Swimmers |
|---|---|
| 8 and under | 4 |
| 9 | 5 |
| 10 | 7 |
| 11 | 6 |
| 12 | 6 |
| 13 | 1 |
| 14 | 5 |
| 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 1 |
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 and over | 1 |
Source: Swimming New Zealand results, 28 Feb 2025 · n = 37 swimmers