3. SWIMMING
- is an individual
or team sport that uses arms
and legs to move the body
through water. The sport takes
place in pools or open water
(e.g., in a sea or lake).
5. Swimming can be dated back to
the Stone Age, but did not truly
become an organised sport until
the early 19th century.
6. Prehistoric man learnt to swim in order to
cross rivers and lakes – we know this
because cave paintings from the Stone
Age depicting swimmers have been found
in Egypt. Swimming was also referred to
in Greek mythology.
7. Swimming was not widely practised
until the early 19th century, when the
National Swimming Society of Great
Britain began to hold competitions.
Most early swimmers used the
breaststroke, or a form of it.
8. Based on a stroke used by
native South Americans, the
first version of the crawl
featured a scissor kick. In the
late 1880s, an Englishman
named Frederick Cavill
9. travelled to the South
Seas, where he saw the
natives performing a
crawl with a flutter kick.
10. Swimming has featured on the
programme of all editions of the
Games since 1896. The very first
Olympic events were freestyle
(crawl) or breaststroke.
Backstroke was added in 1904.
11. In the 1940s, breaststrokers
discovered that they could go
faster by bringing both arms
forward over their heads. This
practice was immediately
forbidden in breaststroke
12. , but gave birth to butterfly, whose
first official appearance was at the
1956 Games in Melbourne. This
style is now one of the four strokes
used in competition.
15. FREE STYLE
Freestyle is a category
of swimming competition,defined
by the rules of the
International SwimmingFederation
(FINA), in which competitors are
subject to few limited restrictions
on their swimming stroke.
19. BREAST STROKE
a style of swimming on one's
front, in which the arms are
pushed forward and then swept
back in a circular movement, while
the legs are tucked in toward the
body and then kicked out in a
corresponding movement.
21. BUTTERFLY
The butterfly (colloquially
shortened to the fly) is a swimming
stroke swum on the chest, with
both arms moving symmetrically,
accompanied by the butterfly kick
(also known as the "dolphin kick").
23. Sidestroke is a swimming stroke swimmers
perform on their side. Unlike other strokes,
such as the freestyle crawl, backstroke,
breaststroke, and butterfly stroke, the
sidestroke is not competitive. Instead, it is
most often used to conserve energy in long-
distance swimming or in emergency
situations.
25. The elementary backstroke is a
foundational swimming stroke,
alongside the breaststroke, sidestroke,
front crawl, and freestyle. To perform
the elementary backstroke, the
swimmer faces upward and uses their
arms and legs to propel themselves
through the water.
