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• Swimming Individual team sports
• SWIMMING Is an individual or team sports that uses arms and legs to move the body through water
• In GREECE and ROME swimming was part of martial training and was with the alphabet, also part of elementary education for males
• One of the earliest representations of swimming is an ancient Egyptian wall relief that shows soldiers of Pharaoh Ramses II
• pursuing their enemies by swimming across the Orontes River between ancient Egypt and Asia Minor
• In Japan, competitions were held as early as the 1st century BC.
• In Europe, swimming was less popular during the Middle Ages (5th to 15th Century)
• when immersion in water as sometime associated with the recurrent epidemic disease of the time.
• • competitive swimming started in United States and mostly performing breast stroke. 1800
• 1837 - the first swimming organization took place mostly in London while by then had six indoors pools with diving boards.
• 1864 - Australia held a swim meet 440-yard race.
• 1869 - London founded the amateur swimming association
• 1896 - first modern Olympics games in Athens
• 1902

  Richmond Cavil introduced the front crawl to the western world. 1902
• 1908

  the world swimming association Federation Internationale de amateur (AFIDA) was formed.
• FINA's five discipline Swimming

  Open Water Swimming

  Diving

  Water Polo Synchronised Swimming
• 1912

  • women’s swimming became Olympic at the Stockholm Games. The freestyle distance is 800 meters for Woman and 1,500 meters for men.
• 1930

  • Butterfly was developed and was it first as variant of breaststroke,
• 2005 it was agreed

   to add women's and men 10km
• 1907 -The construction

  of the firsts wimming pool in

  the country at fort McKinley

  YMCA
• 1911 -The first swimming

  championship meet wash held at the American Columbia club
• 1912 the meet was opened to filipinos wimmers.
• Second championship meet. Condrado Benitez
• 1913 During the Far Eastern games held at Manila, the

  Philippines Team composed

  of Condrado Benitez,

  J. del Pan, C. Aiville and L.

  Cristobal “won the

  championship against

  China and Japan.
• 1924 Teofilo E. Yldefonso,

  a Philippine Scout soldier of

  the US Army won recognition

  as the greatest Filipino

  swimmer for his feats

  (achievement
• 1931 Women swimmers

  competed in the

  National Women’s

  swimming

  championship at the

  Rizal Memorial Pool

  where the U.P won.
• 1948 Swimming

  competitions

  were resumed.
• 1951 The 1st Asian

  games held in

  (New Delhi)
• 1954 The 2nd Asian

  games held in

  (Manila)
• 1958 The 3rd Asian

  games held in

  (Tokyo)
• 1962 The 4th Asian

  games held in

  (Jakarta)
• OPEN WATER SWIMMING Where the events are swum in

  a body of open water (lake or

  sea), there are also 5km, 10km

  and 25 km events for men and

  women
• SWIMS STYLES In competitive swimming, four major styles have beene stablished. These have been relatively stable over the last 30-40 years with minor
• DOLPHIN KICK is used to maximize the

  speed at the start and after the

  turns in all styles. The first

  successful use of it was by David

  Berkoff.
• CRAWL You will use the flutter kick to complete the freestyle

  stroke technique.
• FLUTTER KICK is achieved by constantly moving your legs in a

  tight, scissor –like movement beneath the water.
• BACK STROKE is almost the mirror image of freestyles.

  The leg will be using the same flutter kick
• BREAST STROKE offers perhaps the greatest variability in style among the strokes.
• BUTTERFLY STROKE is one of the most difficult swimming strokes. A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together.