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Nude swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is " skinny dipping ". In both British and American English, to swim means "to move through water by moving the body or parts of the body". [ 1 ] In British English, bathing also means swimming ...
Nude swimming in US indoor pools. Nude swimming in US indoor pools was common for men and boys from the late 1880s until the early 1970s, but rare for women and girls. For much of that time period, indoor pool use was primarily for physical education or athletic competition, not recreation. Male nude swimming had been customary in natural ...
Died. August 27, 1938. (1938-08-27) (aged 53) Sport. Sport. Swimming. Charlotte "Eppy" Epstein (1884–1938), coached the United States Women's Olympic Swimming Team in the 1920s and founded the Women's Swimming Association. She was known as "Mother of Women's Swimming in America".
Lilly King. Lillia Camille King[3] (born February 10, 1997) [5] is an American swimmer who specializes in breaststroke. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke competition and also won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay, in which she swam the breaststroke leg.
800 m freestyle. Shirley Frances Babashoff (born January 31, 1957) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in multiple events. Babashoff set six world records and earned a total of nine Olympic medals in her career. [1] She won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay in both the 1972 and ...
Nancy Edberg popularized women's swimming in Stockholm from 1847. She made swimming lessons accessible for both sexes and later introduced swimming lessons for women in Denmark and Norway. [17] Her public swimming exhibitions from 1856 with her students were likely among the first public exhibitions of women swimming in Europe [17]
Laure Manaudou (French pronunciation: [lɔʁ manodu]; born 9 October 1986) is a retired [1] French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She has held the world record in freestyle events between 200 and 1500 meter. She is the older sister of Florent Manaudou who is also an Olympic gold medalist swimmer.
Simone Manuel. Simone Ashley Manuel (born August 2, 1996 [1]) is an American professional swimmer specializing in freestyle events. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won two gold and two silver medals: gold in the 100-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter medley, and silver in the 50-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.