Guides & data
Guides & data for swim families
Free to read, no account needed. Built from more than 160,000 Australian race results.
“Every state and national QT in one place”
Qualifying Times Calculator
Look up qualifying times, filter by event and age group, and enter a PB to see how close your swimmer is.
Read more →“What is a good time for their age?”
Average swim times by age
Median, top-25% and top-10% long course benchmarks for ages 8–16, across five events.
Read more →“Standards, windows, and courses — decoded”
How qualifying times work
A parent’s guide to state and national QTs, and how to judge which events are realistic targets.
Read more →“The median 10-year-old drops 7% a year”
How much do swimmers improve?
Year-on-year improvement rates by age, stroke, and gender — and why the teenage plateau is normal.
Read more →“Why 25m times are faster”
Short course vs long course
What the extra turns are worth, and why comparing an SC time to an LC time misreads progress.
Read more →“Marshalling, heats, DQs — explained”
Your child’s first swim meet
Entries, programs, what to pack, timekeeping duty, and how results get published.
Read more →See how your swimmer is really going.
Personal-best history, improvement trends, where they sit in the field, and how close they are to qualifying.
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