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  2. Aquatic timing system - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the 1950s, competitive swimmers relied on the sound of a starting pistol to start their races and mechanical stopwatches to record their times at the end of a race. A limitation of analog timekeeping was the technology's inability to reliably record times accurately below one tenth (0.1) of a second. [ 3 ]

  3. Fully automatic time - Wikipedia

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    The system is commonly used in track and field as well as athletic performance testing, horse racing, dog racing, bicycle racing, rowing and auto racing. In these fields a photo finish is used. It is also used in competitive swimming, for which the swimmers themselves record a finish time by touching a touchpad at the end of a race. In order to ...

  4. List of swimming competitions - Wikipedia

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    Race to Prince's Bridge, 1913 to 1963 and 1987 to 1991; Rottnest Channel Swim; ... Commonwealth Games, included as part of the swimming program, since 2002;

  5. Doodle Champion Island Games - Wikipedia

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    All the mini-games cover different genres of video games. For example, the Artistic Swimming event takes the form of a Dance Dance Revolution style rhythm game, whilst the Skateboarding event features a trick system similar to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. [6] Additionally, each region holds plenty of side quests for the player to seek out.

  6. 100 metre freestyle - Wikipedia

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    The switch to mid-race in a 100 m freestyle. The 100 metre freestyle is often considered to be the highlight ( Blue Ribbon event) [ 1 ] of the sport of swimming , like 100 metres in the sport of Athletics , symbolizing the pinnacle of speed and athleticism in swimming competitions.

  7. Titmus sets a women’s 200-meter freestyle world record at ...

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    Ariarne Titmus set a world record in the women’s 200-meter freestyle on Wednesday at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials. Titmus finished in 1 minute, 52.23 seconds in the final, taking almost ...

  8. World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) - Wikipedia

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    The World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m), formerly known as the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), [1] also referred to as 'short course worlds', [2] [3] [4] are an international swimming competition staged by the internationally recognized governing body of the sport, World Aquatics (formerly FINA).

  9. Starting pistol - Wikipedia

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    Eight women participate in a hobble skirt race. Starter gun has just been fired by man in straw boater hat. A starting pistol or starter pistol is a blank handgun [1] or, more recently, an electronic toy gun or device with a button connected to a sound system that is fired to start track and field races as well as some competitive swimming races.