Harper Nakamura
FINA points compare performances across courses.
Progression
Last raced 22 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
Faster times sit lower — the line drops as the swimmer improves. Dashed lines mark the qualifying time for each tier at the current age.
Stroke Strengths
Best result in each stroke vs the qualifying ladder for this age
Rings: Metro · State Age · Aus Age. A dash means the stroke hasn't been raced.
Athlete Profile
What the race results show — measured, not inferred
Strongest event
100m Backstroke
Top 45% for age · 220 FINA points
Per year
+11.5%
PBs / 12mo
15
Last PB
2mo ago
Harper's strongest event is the 100m Backstroke (yet to make a Metro time). Improving — about 11.5% faster across events over the past year, with 15 personal bests in the last 12 months.
Race Rhythm
How often they’re racing
The season chart needs a little more history — it appears once there are about eighteen months of results to draw.
Harper has raced 3 meets across 2 seasons, typically about every 7 months.
Race Diet
What they actually swim
Race exposure, not best times — broad development or narrowing focus.
Stroke balance
Sprint vs distance
Every pool race entered, both courses. Bands are 50m · 100–150m · 200m and over.
Season Gains
How each season went
How much came off inside each season, by stroke — with the monthly pace beneath it.
Measured within each season, not over a rolling 12 months — a stroke can lead one and trail the other.
| Stroke | 2025/26 |
|---|---|
| Freestyle | 6.4%1.1%/mo pace |
| Backstroke | 5.5%0.9%/mo pace |
| Ind. Medley | 7.2%1.2%/mo pace |
For every event raced at least twice in the season, the best of its earlier races against the best of its later ones, per month between them — then averaged by stroke. Each pool is measured against itself. The headline is that season's whole drop; the pace beneath it is per MONTH and is not an annual figure — time comes off in bursts, so multiplying by twelve overstates a year badly. A season whose races fell close together can show a fast pace on a small total. This is also the short view of one season; the multi-season trend on the pathway page answers a different question and will not match.
Drop Curve
When the time came off
Average improvement on a personal best, half-year by half-year.
15 times a personal best was beaten, across 2 half-year periods · 8 in Jul–Dec 26, which is still running. A first race in a new event sets a baseline and is not counted as a drop; * marks the half-year still in progress.
Racecraft
Front-enderAcross 10 raced splits, Harper’s back half runs +6.6% vs the front (dive-adjusted) — spends early and pays late — back-end endurance is the cheapest time on offer. ≈1.7s a race is sitting in the back half — available from pacing alone.
Qualifications
Personal Bests & Progress
“To next milestone” is how much time must come off the PB to clear the next tier. “12-mo gain” compares the last year’s best with the best before it.