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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.
The Osborne Swimming Club from Manchester beat club teams from Belgium, France and Germany quite easily. The Trudgen stroke was improved by Australian-born Richmond Cavill. Cavill, whose father Frederick Cavill narrowly failed to swim the English Channel, is credited with developing the stroke after observing a young boy from the Solomon Islands.
Craig Russell Beardsley (born 1960) is an American former competition swimmer who was a world record-holder in the 200-meter butterfly for three years in the early 1980s. . Although he qualified as a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team, Beardsley could not compete in the Olympics because of the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympic
Schollander was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, [3] and learned competitive swimming from his uncle, Newt Perry, who ran a swimming school in Florida. [4] As a boy, Schollander moved with his family to Lake Oswego, Oregon. [5] Although his first sporting passion was football, he was too small to compete in high school football. [6] Instead ...
Charles Meldrum Daniels (March 24, 1885 – August 9, 1973) [1] was an American competition swimmer, eight-time Olympic medalist, and world record-holder in two freestyle swimming events. Daniels was an innovator of the front crawl swimming style, helping to develop the " American crawl ".
Curtis soon founded co-ed synchronized swimming clubs at two different teaching colleges in Chicago, and when the two groups held a synchro swim-off in 1939, it marked the sport’s first competition.
Hungarian National Swimming Championships; Irish Open Short Course Swimming Championships; Japan National Swimming Championships (Japan Swim) Italian National Championships (Spring - Absolute, Summer, Winter), open to international competition; Lithuanian Swimming Championships, for example 2020 Lithuanian Swimming Championships
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