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Slow butterfly (also known as "moth stroke"): Similar to butterfly, but with an extended gliding phase, Breathing during the pull/push phase, return head into the water during recovery. This style uses two kicks per cycle. Breaststroke: performed face down in the water without rotating the
Breaststroke is the slowest of the four official styles in competitive swimming.The fastest breaststrokers can swim about 1.70 meters (~5.6 feet) per second. It is sometimes the hardest to teach to rising swimmers after butterfly due to the importance of timing and the coordination required to move the legs properly.
Butterfly stroke Overhead shot of a swimmer performing the butterfly stroke Butterfly stroke, shortly before entering the water again; view from behind. The butterfly (shortened to fly [1]) is a swimming stroke swum on the chest, with both arms moving symmetrically, accompanied by the butterfly kick (also known as the "dolphin kick") along with the movement of the hips and chest.
breaststroke: American Record (50 m) U.S. Open Record (50 m) 50 breast: 26.45 Nic Fink (USA) 2022 World Championships June 21, 2022 / Budapest, Hungary: 26.52 [7] Michael Andrew (MA Swim Academy) 2022 USA International Team Trials April 28, 2022 / Greensboro, North Carolina: 100 breast: 58.14 [8] Michael Andrew (Race Pace Club) 2020 US Olympic ...
100 m breaststroke: 57.13 Adam Peaty Great Britain (GBR) 2016 Rio de Janeiro: 7 August 2016 [12] 200 m breaststroke: 2:05.85 Léon Marchand France (FRA) 2024 Paris: 31 July 2024 [13] 100 m butterfly: ♦49.45 Caeleb Dressel United States (USA) 2020 Tokyo: 31 July 2021 [14] 200 m butterfly: 1:51.21 Léon Marchand France (FRA) 2024 Paris: 31 July ...
The remaining strokes are sorted according to the speed, with breaststroke being the slowest, butterfly in the middle, and freestyle being the fastest stroke. The order of the strokes for medley relay is as follows: [5] Backstroke; Breaststroke; Butterfly; Freestyle: It can be any stroke except butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke. [2]
Butterfly and breaststroke swimmers must touch with two hands, [1] then one arm is typically dropped into the water to begin the turn while the other comes past the head to complete the turnaround from the wall and then the swimmer will push off into a streamline. See also Butterfly stroke#Turn and finish. [2]
In the mid-1930s, many breaststroke swimmers began practicing an early variant of the butterfly stroke that involved recovering the arms above the water in an effort to reduce drag. This technique was disallowed when the butterfly stroke was established as a distinct stroke with its own rules in 1953, and world records set using the technique ...