When scientist and coaches began studying swimmers and there Science and technology began to play a part in the sport throughout the 1900’sĪs well. The Special Olympics includes competitive swimmingįor people with disabilities and has 22 events for men and 22 for women.
Three was ever used in the Olympics again.įour swimming events, the Olympics have now developed to 32 swimming races, 16įor men and 16 for women. One used an obstacle course Īnother was a test of underwater swimming endurance the third was aĤ,000-metre event, the longest competitive swimming event ever. The second Olympics in Paris inġ900 included three unusual swimming events. Prompting of the group that later became known as the International Olympicįour swimming events, three of them freestyle. Was only at the 1912 Games when women's swimming made its debut at the Victorian era, that women were too frail to engage in competitive sports. In 1896 and again inġ906, women could not participate because the developer of the modern games,īaron Pierre de Coubertin, held firmly to the assumption, common in the ( IM) or by four swimmers as a medley relay.Įxcluded from swimming in the first several Olympic Games. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles Included, followed by the backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke, and lastly, the Soon after, as swimming gained popularity, more freestyle events were In 1896, swimming became an Olympic sportįor men with the 100 meters and 1500 meters freestyle competitions held in open Used successfully in wars against the Romans. The Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, Isaiah 25:11), The Germanic folklore describes swimming, which was References date back to 2000 BC including Gilgamesh, the Iliad, Palace Mohenjo Daro from 2800 BC contains a swimming pool sized 30 m by 60 mWritten Swimmers inside of men dating back from 3000 BC The Indian The most famous drawings were found in the Kebir desert andĪre estimated to be from around 4000 BC The Nagoda bas-relief also shows In Babylonian bas-reliefs and Assyrian wall drawings, depicting a variant of An Egyptian clay seal dated between 4000 BC and 9000 BC shows four swimmers who are believed toīe swimming a variant of the front crawl.
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May also be possible that the movements have a ritual meaning unrelated to Was accepted as a separate style in 1952.Īncient times Cave paintings from the Stone Age were found in the " Cave of Swimmers" near Wadi Sora on the Gilf Kebir plateau in southwestern Egypt, Butterfly was developed in the 1930s and was atįirst a variant of breaststroke, until it Internationale de Natation (FINA), was formed. In 1902 Richard Cavill introduced the front crawl to the Western world. Due to a British disregard for splashing, Trudgen employedĪ scissor kick instead of the front crawl's flutter kick. Introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, afterĪmericans. Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke. Of languages, wrote the first swimming book, The Swimmer or A Dialogue on Some of the earliest references to swimming include the Gilgamesh, the Iliad,īeowulf, and other sagas. Been recorded since prehistoric times the earliest recording of swimming datesīack to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago.
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