Evolution of Swimming

1. SWIMMING
PROGRESSION
By: Pavel Semochkin

2. HELLO!
My name is pavel Semochkin.
I am a former swimmer that has spent more than 16 years in the “water”. Through out of my
carrier I have always wondered how to find the perfect stroke, power, and speed in the water. I
have never been able why swimming has evolved so much. From year to year the top
swimmers keep showing incredibly fast times, and my main question has always been where is
the limit?

3. 1. Introduction
2. Target Audience
3. History Of Swimming
4. World Record
Progression5. Podcast #1
6.
7.
Aging
Popularity8.
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12.
Podcast #2
Top 10 times
Podcast #3
Podcast #4
Conclusion

4. MISSION STATEMENT
 Figure out how and why professional swimming has changed

5. TARGET AUDIENCE
 Swimming professionals (coaches)
 Athletes
 Parents of the athletes

6. HISTORY OF
SWIMMING
 It is considered that swimming is “young” sport. It
has become an Olympian Sport in 1896, but since
that lots of things has been changed. In 1896
there were no strokes in swimming. Only in 1902
a freestyle was introduced. It has been a little bit
over 100 years, and swimming has made a huge
leap forward
 Fly as a swimming stroke was introduced in 1956.
This project is going to take a closer look at the
swimming progression as a whole and results
specifically in Fly events.

7. WORLD
RECORD
PROGRESSION
100 METERS
BUTTERFLY
Starting with the first official men
world record time in 1957 (63.4
seconds)
New world record time is (49.5
seconds)
The question is… How?
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8. PODCAST
Vlad Polyakov (Three time Olympian swimmer, assistant coach for
Louisville swimming and diving team) Swimming has changed.
We have discussed how swimming program has changed.
1. Swimmers swim less.
2. Swimmers lift more.

9. AGING IN
SWIMMING
Every year more and more
aged athletes are competing at
the highest international
swimming competition. As an
example American Swimmer
Anthony Ervin at the age of 35
won his gold medal during
Olympic Games in Rio De
Janeiro

10. PODCAST
Zach Mertens, Assistant coach of Drury University. We have
discussed things like:
1. Aging in swimming. Swimming has made a huge progress which
led to more aged swimmers to show their best times.

11. The popularity of the sport
has recently increased,
before 2008 the growth of
the sport was not significant.
But after magnificent
success of American
swimmer Michael Phelps
during Olympic Games 2008
in Beijing the number of
swimmers has increased
significantly

12. PODCAST
Bryan Beatty is an Associate Athletics Director for Internal Affairs at
Drury University. Bryan has more than 20 years of experience in
dealing with swimmers in and out of the pool

13. SWIMMING HAS CHANGED,
SO DID SWIMMERS. THE
AVERAGE AGE OF THE
SWIMMERS HAS
INCREASED. MORE OFTEN
WE CAN SEE HOW OLDER
SWIMMERS ARE ABLE TO
COMPETE AT THE TOP
LEVELS. THEIR AGE IS THEIR
KNOWLEDGE AND POWER
Source: USA Swimming
https://www.usaswimming.org/times/event-rank-
search

14. PODCAST
Mixon Mathew is a coach at Sunkist Swimming Team in Jackson, MS.
Mathew is a new school coach and we have discussed different types
of programs and swimming evolution

15. CONCLUSION
 Swimming is a young sport
 There is not a lot of research made about this sport
 I have figure out three key points regarding my mission statement
1. Popularity
2. Knowledge and Communication
3. Science