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Olympic Games, pool since 1896, open water since 2008, for example swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics [1] [2] [3]; Youth Olympic Games, since 2010, for example swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Canberra Olympic Pool: Opened in 1955 in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, this was the first 10-metre diving platform tower built in Australia. Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre : host to the 2000 Olympic Games diving events and provides an ongoing venue for diving competitions with diving towers and springboards.
Women's diving debut happened at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the platform event and was expanded to springboard diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics. A parallel platform diving event for men, called "plain high diving", was presented at the Games of the V Olympiad. No acrobatic moves were allowed, only a simple straight dive off the platform. [3]
Keep swimming. Before the pandemic, Ayers, who became the club’s faculty advisor in 2015, said that Dive In started to evolve significantly. For the 2017-2018 academic year, Dive In won the ...
The highest level of collegiate competition is the NCAA Division 1 Swimming and Diving Championship. Events at the championship include 1 metre springboard, 3 metre springboard, and platform, as well as various swimming individual and relay events. The points scored by swimmers and divers are combined to determine a team swimming & diving champion.
Level 2 Fahrtenschwimmer (trail swimmer—badge with two waves and a silver pin) requires 15 minutes of swimming, dive jump or jump from 3-metre (10-foot) height, 10 metres (11 yards) of swimming underwater, pickup of a thick object from deep water (2 m [6.6 ft] water, 2.5 kg [5.5 lb] weight), 50 metres (55 yards) of back crawl, and 10 rules of ...
The Aquatics events at the 2006 Commonwealth Games were held at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC) and were divided into 3 separate disciplines, with medals awarded in 54 events: Diving (10) Swimming (42) Synchronized swimming (2)
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 February 2025. Self-propulsion through water This article is about standard human swimming. For competitive swimming, see Swimming (sport). For animal swimming, see Aquatic locomotion. For other uses, see Swimming (disambiguation) and Swimmer (disambiguation). A competitive swimmer performing the ...