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• Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water
• Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle
• Earliest evidence of recreational swimming found in Stone Age paintings


  Prehistoric times
• Colymbetes, sive de arte natandi dialogus et festivus et iucundus lectu


  The Swimmer, or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming and Joyful and Pleasant to Read
• Nikolaus Wynmann, a Swiss-German professor of languages, wrote the earliest known complete book about swimming


  1538
• Swimming emerged as a competitive recreational activity in England

  1830
• Two Native American participants at a swimming competition in London introduced the front crawl to a European audience


  1844
• Captain Matthew Webb


  First man to swim the English Channel (between England and France), in 1875 using the breaststroke technique
• The first national governing body, the Amateur Swimming Association, was formed, with over 300 regional clubs already in operation across the country

  1880
• The world's first women's swimming championship was held in Scotland

  1892
• Men's swimming became part of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens


  1896
• The Australian Richmond Cavill introduced freestyle to the Western world

  1902
• The World Swimming Association, Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), was formed


  1908
• Women's swimming was introduced into the Olympics


  1912
• Women's Olympiad was the first international swim meet for women outside the Olympics


  1922
• Butterfly was developed and was at first a variant of breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style in 1952


  1930
• Americans introduced swimming as a sport to the Philippines in the 1900s
• A number of local swimmers had emerged from different parts of the Philippines who competed against each other in championships organized by the Americans in 1912
• Teofilo E. Yldefonso


  Nicknamed the "Ilocano Shark," won the Philippines' first Olympic medal by winning bronze in the 200 m breaststroke event at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Teofilo E. Yldefonso repeated this feat in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, California, when he won his second bronze medal, becoming the first Filipino to win multiple medals in the Olympics
• The first Asian Games was held in New Delhi, India


  1951
• Artemio Salamat and Jacinto Cayco won gold medals for the 200m and 100m breaststroke events, respectively, at the first Asian Games
• Erik Buhain won a gold in the 400-meter individual medley at Southeast Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand


  1985
• Basic equipment used in swimming

  • Goggles
  • Kick Board
  • Swim Cap
  • Starting Gun
  • Swim Suit
  • Touch pad
  • Swimming trunks
• Front Crawl


  • It is popularly known as Freestyle. It is also considered as the fastest and most efficient swimming technique.
  • The body must be kept horizontal, stretched and streamlined.
  • Involves alternating over arm strokes and the flutter kick, the up and down movement of the legs.
  • The head remains in the water, the face alternating from side to side.
• Butterfly


  • It is a powerful and graceful technique; the most difficult and exhausting stroke.
  • Hands enter the water shoulder width apart.
  • Legs move in fishtail or dolphin kick, which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upward swing.
  • Arms move up and downward shoulder rotate bringing arms around.
• Breaststroke


  • It is the slowest of the four official styles in competitive swimming which requires comparable endurance and strength to other strokes.
  • Strokes begin with the body in a stretched out, horizontal position with the face in the water.
  • Upper body lifts as the arms pull and the head lifts to breathe.
  • Frog kick takes place under the water and begins with the legs in an extended position with feet together. Frog kick is leg movement where the knees primarily turned outward and the legs alternately separated and closed.
• Backstroke


  • It has the advantage of easy breathing, but has the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. This is the only competition swimming style that has a different start.
  • Push of the wall, on your back, in a streamline position.
  • The alternating kick originates from the hip and remains within the body width.
  • Toes are pointed with ankles relaxed and the knees bend slightly with each kick.
  • The leg kick and arm actions should be controlled and steady while maintaining a fixed head position.