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This elementary backstroke swim was used in the 1900 and 1908 Olympics. The backcrawl swim supplanted the elementary backstroke swim after 1908 as the competitive back swim and it is now referred to as the backstroke. Another variant is the old style of swimming backstroke, where the arm movement formed a complete circle in a windmill type pattern.
Swimming underwater is faster than swimming on the surface. Underwater swimming is not its own category in the Olympics, but in the 1988 Olympics several competitors swam much of the backstroke race underwater. After that, the Olympics created a rule that swimmers are only allowed to stay underwater for the first 10 meters (later changed to 15 ...
TYR Pro Swim Series Indianapolis, United States [64] [65] 50m backstroke: 26.86 Kaylee McKeown Australia 20 October 2023: World Cup: Budapest, Hungary [66] 100m backstroke: 57.13 Regan Smith United States 18 June 2024: U.S. Olympic Trials: Indianapolis, United States [67] [68] 200m backstroke: 2:03.14 Kaylee McKeown Australia 10 March 2023: NSW ...
This is a history of the 100 m backstroke world record as swum in both long-course (50 m; Olympic) pools and short-course (25 m) pools—the two categories recognized/tracked by FINA. Graphic data for World Record Progression in Men and Women Swimming 50m-100m-200m Long and Short Course Butterfly-Backstroke-Breaststroke-Freestyle
The swimming events at the 1896 Olympic Games were held ... Races are held in four swimming categories: freestyle, backstroke, ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
Men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) Venue: Duna Arena: Location: Budapest, Hungary: Dates: 12 December (heats and semifinals) 13 December (final) Competitors: 51 from 45 nations: Winning time: 22.47 WJ: Medalists
This is a history of the progression of the world record for the 200-meter backstroke event. It is a listing of the fastest-time-ever swum in the event, in both lonfg course (50-meter) and short course (25-meter) swimming pools. These records are maintained/recognized by FINA, which oversees international competitive swimming and aquatics.
Swimming world records are maintained by World Aquatics, the international sports federation which oversees the sport. World records are recognized only in long course (50m) and short course (25m). Like the 50 m breaststroke, 50 m butterfly, and the 50 m backstroke, world record status and monitoring for this event first began in the 1990s.