ppt FOR GRADE 11

1. PRESENTED BY: SHIELA

4. BRIEF
HISTORY
OF
SWIMMING
PRESENT DAY
SWIMMING
ESSENTIAL
INFORMATION
STROKES IN
THE PAST
THE START OF
COMPETITIVE
SWIMMING

5. Since before 6000 BC, people have learned
to travel, navigate, and swim in water.
Swimming was a competitive sport for
centuries but not admitted into the Olympic
givens. Even though the greeks held
swimming with wide respect. It was not
part of the Olympic games until over 2000
years latter. Back in B.C, it was a way to
relax and get goods to trade with other
people and get clean
ESSENTIAL
INFORMATION

6. The strokes we know today are based off
all the original strokes. They’ve evolved
from the one’s in 6000 BC. Pictures depict
people used to swim a stroke similar to
the front crawl and something similar to
breastroke. Around 1700, British
swimmers swam breastroke and the
sidestroke which was an evolution from
the “doggie paddle”
STROKES IN
THE PAST

7. The Japanese started swimming
competitions in the 1600’s. IN 1603, the
Emperor made a decree that school
children should swim. IN the 1800’s, the
British started swimming competitively.
In 1837, around 7 indoor pools existed in
London where swimming competitions
took place
THE START OF
COMPETITIVE
SWIMMING

8. In 1896, swimming became part of the
Olympic games in Athens. In the first few
summer games, only men were able to
compete in swimming events, but they
admitted women in 1912. Butterfly was
added in 1956. Then the first world
championship was held by FINA in
1988/89
PRESENT DAY
SWIMMING

9. BRIEF
HISTORY
OF
SWIMMING
PRESENT DAY
SWIMMING
ESSENTIAL
INFORMATION
STROKES IN
THE PAST
THE START OF
COMPETITIVE
SWIMMING

12. 1896
1904
1908
1912
1940
1956

13. 1896
1904
1908
1912
1940
1956
 Swimming was first introduced in
the Olympic games in Athens
 Swimming has featured on the
program of all editions of the
Games
 The very first Olympic events
were freestyle (crawl) or
breaststroke

14. 1896
1904
1908
1912
1940
1956
Backstroke
was added in
the olympics

15. 1896
1904
1908
1912
1940
1956
 The world swimming
association was
introduced called
Federation
Internationale de
Natation (FINA)

16. 1896
1904
1908
1912
1940
1956
 Women’s swimming
became Olympic at the
Stockholms Games. Since
then, it has been part of
every edition in games.
The freestyle distance is
800 meters for women and
1500 for men

17. 1896
1904
1908
1940
1956
1912
 Breaststrokers
discovered that they
could go faster by
bringing both arms
forward over their
heads. This practice was
immediately forbidden
but gave birth to
butterfly

18. 1896
1904
1908
1912
1940
1956
 The first official
appearance of the
butterfly technique at
the Games in
Melbourne. This style
is now one of the four
strokes used in
competition

20. WHAT AM I?

21. WHAT AM I?
SWIMSUIT

22. .
WHAT AM I?
GOGGLES

23. WHAT AM I?
FINS

24. WHAT AM I?
STARTING GUN/PISTOL

25. WHAT AM I?
SWIMMING TRUNKS

26. WHAT AM I?
TOUCH PAD

27. WHAT AM I?
STARTING BLOCK

28. WHAT AM I?
CAP/SWIMMING CAP

29. WHAT AM I?
KICKBOARD

30. BASIC
SWIMMING
STROKE

31. FRONT CRAWL
- Also called
FREESTYLE
- Fastest and most
efficient swimming
technique

32. BUTTERFLY
- Powerful and
Graceful Technique
- The most difficult
and most exhausting
technique
- Powerful and
Graceful Technique
- The most difficult
and most exhausting
technique

33. BREASTSTROKE
- The slowest of the four
styles in competitive
swimming
- Requires comparable
endurance and strength
to other strokes

34. BACKSTROKE
- Has the advantage of easy
breathing, but the
swimmers can’t see where
they are going
- The only swimming
competition style that has
different start

35. BASIC SWIMMING STROKE
BREASTSTROKE
FRONT CRAWL BACKSTROKE
BUTTERFLY

36. HAPPY LEARNING, HAPPY SWIMMING!
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