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Swimming emerged as a competitive sport in the early 1800s in England. In 1828, the first indoor swimming pool, St George's Baths, was opened to the public. [ 12 ] By 1837, the National Swimming Society was holding regular swimming competitions in six artificial swimming pools, built around London .
The International Olympic Committee recognises the fastest performances in pool-based swimming events at the Olympic Games. Men's swimming has been part of the official program of the Summer Olympics since the Games' modern inception in 1896; it was not until 1912 that women's events were held.
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports , [ 1 ] with varied distance events in butterfly , backstroke , breaststroke , freestyle , and ...
Bill Lippman, the last head of the Swimming Committee, and Ross Wales, the first president of United States Swimming, worked together to ease the transition. This process was made more complex because the United States boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics and, during this time, the leadership of the sport was in flux.
Hal Henning, FINA's president from 1972 through 1976, and their first American President, was highly instrumental in starting the first World Aquatics Championships, and in retaining the number of swimming events in the Olympics, which gave an advantage to nations with larger, more balanced swim teams.
The fresh-faced teen would go on to become a four-time world champion and 400m individual medley world record holder. Paris was, therefore, primed for the teen to make the step up from prodigy to ...
The new book 'Swimming Pretty' traces an art form and a sport to its inception, back when women were discouraged from swimming for modesty's sake. Synchronized swimming is even more impressive ...
Swimming at multi-sport events (32 C, 22 P) Swimming films (3 C, 43 P) Swimming record progressions (1 C, 6 P) T. ... Pages in category "History of swimming"