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Swimming emerged as a competitive sport in the early 1800s in England. In 1828, the first indoor swimming pool, St George's Baths, was opened to the public. [ 12 ] By 1837, the National Swimming Society was holding regular swimming competitions in six artificial swimming pools, built around London .
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, [1] with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual ...
Category: History of swimming. 3 languages. ... Swimming at multi-sport events (32 C, 22 P) Swimming films (3 C, 43 P) Swimming record progressions (1 C, 6 P) T.
The fresh-faced teen would go on to become a four-time world champion and 400m individual medley world record holder. Paris was, therefore, primed for the teen to make the step up from prodigy to ...
The Amateur Sports Act of 1978 enabled the governance of sports in the US by organizations other than the AAU. This act made each sport set up its own National governing body (NGB). Each of these governing bodies would be part of the United States Olympic Committee, but would not be run by the committee. Thus, USA Swimming was born. [12]
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water or other liquid, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that results in directional motion.
Canadian swimming prodigy Summer McIntosh tells CNN’s Amanda Davies what the secrets and keys are to the success which has seen her win three Olympic golds in Paris.
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