History of

Swimming
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History of
Swimming
Overview
Swimming is an individual or
team racing sport that requires
the use of one's entire body to
move through water. The sport
takes place in pools or open
water 

Fact about swimming

 Competitive swimming is one of
the most popular Olympic sports
Swimming became an
Olympic sport in 1896.
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History of Swimming

10,000-year-old rock paintings of
people swimming were found in the 
Cave of Swimmers near Wadi Sura in
southwestern Egypt. These pictures
seem to show breaststroke or 
doggy paddle, although it is also
possible that the movements have a
ritual meaning unrelated to swimming. More references to swimming are
An Egyptian clay seal dated between  found in the Babylonian and Assyrian
9000 BC and 4000 BC shows four  wall drawings, depicting a variant of
people who are believed[by whom?] to be the breaststroke.
swimming a variant of the front crawl.
Since swimming was done in a state of
undress, it became less popular as
society became more conservative in
the Early Modern period.

 Leonardo da Vinci made early

sketches of lifebelts. In 1538,

Nikolaus Wynmann, a Swiss–German

professor of languages, wrote the
earliest known complete book about
swimming, Colymbetes, sive de arte
natandi dialogus et festivus et
iucundus lectu (The Swimmer, or A
Dialogue on the Art of Swimming and
Joyful and Pleasant to Read ).[3] His
purpose was to reduce the dangers of 
drowning. 
1828
Swimming emerged as a
competitive sport in the early
1800s in England. In 1828,
the first indoor swimming
pool, St George's Baths, was
opened to the public.
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1844
A swimming competition was held in London with
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British competitor used the traditional 
breaststroke, while the Native Americans swam a
variant of the front crawl, which had been used by
people in the Americas for generations but was not
known to the British. The winning medal went to
'Flying Gull' who swam the 130-foot length in 30
seconds – the Native American swimming method
proved to be a much faster style than the British
breaststroke. 

1837
Swimming emerged as a competitive sport in the
early 1800s in England. By 1837, the 
National Swimming Society was holding regular
swimming competitions in six artificial swimming
pools, built around London.
1875-1880
1875 • learned how to swim in open water in the River
Severn in Coalbrookdale.
• at the age of 12 trained on the HMS Conway and
joined the merchant navy as an apprentice.
• he dived into the mid-Atlantic in an attempt to
save a man who had fallen overboard.
• He went on to rescue his 12-year-old brother
Thomas from drowning in the Severn near
Ironbridge.
• In 1873, when he read about a man who had
attempted to swim the English Channel and failed.
He trained for the challenge.
• He first tried to cross the channel on 12
August 1875, but poor weather and sea
conditions forced him to abandon his attempt.
Captain Matthew Webb • Twelve days later, he set off again and,
despite several jellyfish stings and strong
First man to swim the English currents, he completed the swim,
• Webb wrote his own book, titled ‘The Art of
Channel
Swimming’ and took part in exhibition
Breaststroke
swimming matches and stunts.
21.26 miles • 1883, He drowned while attempting to cross
In 21 hours and 45 minutes the Whirlpool Rapids below Niagara Falls.
• Webb was inducted into the International
Swimming Hall of Fame in 1965
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Other European countries also established swimming
federations; The administering international competition in
water sports. It is on of several international federations
which administer a given sportor discipline for the IOC and
international community.
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The first European amateur
swimming competitions were
in 1889 in Vienna.
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1892-1896
 1892 the world’s first women’s swimming
championship was held in Scotland.

• With quite remarkably modern thinking Scotland held

the world's first ever women's swimming contest in
1892.   With growing worldwide popularity, it was
inevitable that an international championship would
follow the national championships. The first Olympics
to feature swimming as an official sport was in 1896
in Athens with 100m, 500m, and 1200m races.
• Nancy Edberg popularized women's swimming in
Stockholm from 1847. * The first-ever women’s
Olympic swimming event held at the Olympic Game in
Stockholm was the 100m freestyle. The competition
was held from Monday to Friday, July 8-12, 1912.
1896 – swimming became part of the most modern
Olympic Games in Athens.
1896 swimming became part of the most modern Olympic
Games in Athens.

• Swimming has been part of the Olympic

schedule since the very first modern Olympic
Games in 1896. It’s one of only four
disciplines to have been retained, appearing
in every summer Olympics since – the others
being athletics, artistic gymnastics and
fencing. * The Olympic Games were held in
1896 in Athens, a male-only competition.
They were planned and organized by the Sub-
Committee for Nautical Sports. The athletic
festival held in Athens that took place April
6–15, 1896. in the Bay of Zea. There was a
total of 13 participants from 4 countries
competing.
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1902
In 1902, the Australian Richmond Cavill
introduced the front crawl to the Western
world .

Australian, Richmond “Dick” Cavill, was inspired

by Solomon Islander Alick Wickham in the
early 1900s. They watched Wickham and
experimented, developing a modified Trudgen
stroke which ultimately became known as the
“Australian Crawl”. Front crawl/
Australian crawl
or American crawl

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The “Fédération Internationale de Natation”
(FINA) was founded in London July 19, 1908,
during the Olympic Games in London (GBR).
Eight national federations were responsible
for the formation of FINA: Belgium, ● Today, FINA controls the development of the
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great
following aquatic events:
Britain, Hungary and Sweden.
● Swimming: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke,
butterfly, medley, relays, mixed relays

● Water polo: men and women - Diving: springboard

(1m, 3m), platform (10m), synchronized diving
(3m and 10m), mixed and team events

● Artistic swimming: solo, duet, mixed duet, team

and free combination - High Diving: men (27m)
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 1930
Butterfly stroke was
developed.
The history of butterfly stroke started in the
1930s when it developed as a style of swimming
breaststroke. Swimmers and coaches began to
realize that breaststroke was quicker when a
swimmer recovered their arms forward above the
water and the arm technique – as well as the
swimming term ‘butterfly’ – was born.
1962
1962 – the national collegiate athletic
association. NCAA approve the use of touch
pads for all swim meets.
The controversial finish of 1960 was a catalyst
for encouraging the commercialization of Bill
Parkinson’s recently successful

1957 invention, the touchpad. These

touchpads allowed swimmers to stop the clock
with their own hand, reducing the manual
poolside timekeepers to “back-up” status. As a
professor of physics at the University of
Michigan, Bill wanted to solve two problems:
human error during timing as well as a very
crowded swimming deck.
1968
Debbie Meyer
(Deborah Elizabeth
Meyer )
● 16 years old
● First woman swimmer to
win three individual gold
medals at one Olympics.

Roland Matthes
● won gold medals in both the 100-
metre and 200-metre backstroke
● the most successful backstroke
swimmer of all time.
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