ANGELO DELOS SANTOS

SWIMMING BY:

MARY KRIS ER-ER MA. THERESE SAYON

KIENTH GERTRUDE
VILLACERAN
JESSICA GIO LOPEZ
MERIAM DELA PENA

MIGGY LOBRES
 WHAT IS SWIMMING?

• Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, usually for

recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through
coordinated movement of the limbs, the body, or both. Humans can hold
their breath underwater and undertake rudimentary locomotive swimming
within weeks of birth, as a survival response.
 TYPES OF SWIMMING STROKES

FREE STYLE BACK STROKE

BUTTERFLY BREAST STROKE

 HISTORY OF SWIMMING
• HISTORY
• Swimming can be dated back to the Stone Age, but did not truly become an organised sport until the early 19th century.
• AN ANCIENT DISCIPLINE
• 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.
 
DAWN OF A SPORT
• 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.

DISCOVERING THE CRAWL

• 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 travelled to the South Seas, where he saw the natives performing a crawl with a flutter kick. Cavill settled in Australia, where he taught the stroke
that was to become the famous Australian crawl.

OLYMPIC HISTORY
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• Women’s swimming became Olympic in 1912 at the Stockholm Games. Since then, it has been part of every edition of the Games. The men’s and
women’s programmes are almost identical, as they contain the same number of events, with only one difference: the freestyle distance is 800 metres for
women and 1,500 metres for men.
 PURPOSE OF SWIMMING
RECREATION
SAFETY SPORT

HEALTH
 RISKS IN SWIMMING HYPOTHERMIA

PANIC

EXHAUSTION

BLUNT TRAUMA

DEHYDRATION
 EQUIPMENTS
• EARPLUGS
• NOSE CLIPS
• GOGGLES
• SWIMCAPS
• KICKBOARDS
• POOL BUOYS
• SWIM FINS
• HAND PADDLES
• SNORKELS
• POOL NOODLES
• SAFETY FENCING
THANK YOU