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Freestyle races are the most common of all swimming competitions, with distances beginning with 50 meters (55 yards) and reaching 1,500 meters (1,600 yards), [2] also known as the mile. The term 'freestyle stroke' is sometimes used as a synonym for 'front crawl', [3] as front crawl is the fastest surface swimming stroke. [4]
[1] [3] The kick is sometimes cited as the fastest way to swim. [2] [3] [4] An article published by Slate described it as the "fastest way for a human to swim" when executed properly. [4] An article in the International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport noted that the kick provides "an incontestable advantage from a hydrodynamic point of ...
Event Time Name Nationality Date Meet Location Ref 50 m freestyle: 21.04 +0.13: Caeleb Dressel United States 27 July 2019: World Championships: Gwangju, South Korea [1]200 m freestyle
Katie Ledecky fired the first salvo in her duel with Ariarne Titmus, posting the fastest time the preliminaries of the women's 400-meter freestyle Saturday as the swimming competition began at the ...
He was sixth-fastest in the preliminaries of the men's 200 butterfly at 1:55.26 and returned about two hours later to post the third-best time in the 200 breaststroke at 2:09.55, setting another ...
50m freestyle: 24.31 h: Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace Bahamas 17 July 2015: Pan American Games: Toronto, Canada [14] 100m freestyle: 53.73 h: Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace Bahamas 1 August 2012: Olympic Games: London, United Kingdom [15] 200m freestyle: 1:58.03 Joanna Evans Bahamas 21 July 2018: CAC Games: Barranquilla, Colombia [16] 400m freestyle ...
The front crawl or forward crawl, also known as the Australian crawl [1] or American crawl, [2] is a swimming stroke usually regarded as the fastest of the four front primary strokes. [3] As such, the front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle swimming competition, and hence freestyle is used metonymically for the
Graphs of the progression of the World Records in all four strokes (50m, 100m and 200m distances). This is a history of the progression of the world record for the 200 metres freestyle swimming event.