HISTORY OF SWIIMING

• 1800 - competitive swimming started in United States and mostly performing breast stroke.
• 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 that highlighted the first swimming completion championship in the 440-yard race.
• 1869 - London founded. which inspired many more swimming in Europe. Amateur swimming association (ASA)
• 1896 - swimming was part of the first modern Olympics games in Athens.
• 1902 - Richmond Cavil introduced the front crawl to the western world.

  Richmond Cavil.
• 1908 - the world swimming association Federation Internationale de amateur (AFINA) was formed.
• AFINA's five discipline:

  1.Swimming

  2.OpenWater Swimming

  3.Diving

  4.Water Polo

  5.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, until it was accepted as separated style in 1992.
• 2005 - At the OIC Executive Board meeting in Lausanne, it was agreed to add the men’s and women’s 10km open event for the program of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008.
• In Europe, swimming was less popular during the Middle Ages (5th to 15th Century) because it was thought the cause of epidemic disease.
• In Japan, competitions were held as early as the 1st century BC.
• Swimming was highly esteemed in ancient Greece and Rome, especially as a form of training for warriors.
• One of the earliest representations of swimming is an ancient Egyptian wall that shows soldiers of Pharaoh Ramses II. In pursuing their enemies by swimming across the Orontes River between ancient Egypt and Asia Minor
• In  GREECE and ROME swimming was part of martial training and was, with the alphabet, also part of elementary education for males.
• swimming?

  -Is an individual or team sports that uses arms and legs to move the body through water.              

  -Is the act of propelling oneself through water limbs (arms and legs.) It is the act or the art of floating or moving progressively in the water by the hands and feet.