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Butterfly to backstroke is a two-hand touch open turn. Once a legal touch has been made, the swimmer may turn in any manner, but the shoulders must be at or past vertical towards the back when the swimmer leaves the wall. Backstroke to breaststroke the swimmer must first touch on their back. Once a legal touch has been made, the swimmer may ...
This elementary backstroke swim was used in the 1900 and 1908 Olympics. The backcrawl swim supplanted the elementary backstroke swim after 1908 as the competitive back swim and it is now referred to as the backstroke. Another variant is the old style of swimming backstroke, where the arm movement formed a complete circle in a windmill type pattern.
Ryosuke Irie is credited with having the most graceful and effective backstroke technique in the world. [10] Before, he did a lot of backstroke training with a water bottle on his head (Invented by East Carolina University Swim and Dive, 1990's), to ensure that his head is very steady, and to maintain the smoothness of his stroke. Irie has paid ...
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Maya DiRado won the women's 200 meters backstroke, reeling in Katinka Hosszu in the closing meters to deny her a fourth gold medal.
Elementary backstroke: Both arms move synchronized (They begin out like an airplane, then go beside the body like a soldier then they run up the sides and back out to an airplane position) with whip kick. Inverted butterfly: Similar to elementary backstroke, but with a dolphin kick. This is often used for training.
Pages in category "Backstroke" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
McKeown and Smith have owned women’s backstroke events since they were teens. Smith first snatched the world record at age 17, in 2019. In a span of roughly 48 hours at world championships that ...