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File: Sport Ppt 81314 | Swimming
history of swimming competitive swimming is as old as 36 bc japanese held the first known swimming races earliest published writing on swimming was in 1538 written by nicolas wynman ...

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            History of Swimming
     • Competitive swimming is as old as 36 BC
     • Japanese held the first known swimming 
       races
     • Earliest published writing on swimming 
       was in 1538, written by Nicolas Wynman
     • English- considered the first modern 
                            
       society to develop swimming as a sport
                    History cont.
     • First municipal pool in the U.S. was built in 
       Massachusetts in 1887
     • Plato considered a man who didn’t know 
       how to swim uneducated
     • Julius Caesar and Charlemagne were 
       known as great swimmers
     • By 1837, regular swimming competitions 
       were being held in London
                              
                 History cont. 
    • Amateur Swimming Association of 
      Great Britain was organized in 1880
    • August 24, 1875, Captain Matthew 
      Webb became the first man to swim the 
      English Channel
                           
                                  The Pool
        •  Long course racing pool- 50 meters
        •  Short course racing pool- 25 meters
        •  Competitive pool has a minimum of 8 racing lanes
            – each lane must be7-9 feet wide
        •  The pool must be at least 4 feet deep
        •  The water temperature must be between 78 and 80 
           degrees Fahrenheit
        •  The front of the starting block must be 30 inches 
           above the surface of the water
                                             
                    The Meet
     • 14 individual events
     • 3 relays
     • Olympics- there are only 13 
       individual events and 3 relays
     • Men do not swim 800 meter freestyle 
       in the Olympics and women do not 
       swim 1500 meter freestyle  
                           
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