History Of Swimming

Swimming has been known prehistory. From the pictures that come from the stone age caves known for swimmers near Wadi Sora southwest Egypt. In Japan, bathing is the ability to be possessed by the samurai. History records, the first pool match organized by Emperor Suigui in 36 BC.

Swimming game for the championship has started in Europe around 1800 and mostly using the breaststroke. Freestyle swimming first introduced by Arthur Trudgen. The combined force then began kicking leg style by Richard Cavill in 1902. In the Middle Ages, including the seven swimming skills that must be owned by the Knights, including swimming with weapons.

Outdoor sports competed in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens, Greece. At the Olympics, only four numbers that competed from the original plan of six numbers. Each of these is the 100 meters, 500 meters, 1,200 meters, free number, and 100 meters for sailors. The second Olympics held in Paris, France in 1900 and the fight for the 200 m, 1,000 m, 4,000 m, free number, 200 m breaststroke and 200 m team number.

Unity International Pool (Federation Internationale De Natation Amateur / FINA) was formed in 1908 initially set, butterfly style is a variation of the breaststroke. This new style became a separate style in 1952. New women allowed to take part in the swimming competition at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, the Netherlands.

Freestyle, which was then called the Trudge, introduced in 1973 by John Arthur Trudge, copy it from the Native Americans. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 the Trudgen updated by Richard Cavil, using shaking jolt. In 1908, the world swimming association, the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA / Federation Internationale Natation de Amateur) was formed. Butterfly first is a variation of breaststroke, until finally he was accepted as a separate style in 1952.

Swimming in the Olympic games held in 1896 in Athens. Special competition of men (see also swimming at the summer Olympics in 1896). Six matches have been planned, but only four are actually held: 100 m, 500 m, and 1200 m freestyle and 100 m for sailors. The first gold medal was won by Alfred Hajos of Hungary with a time of 1:22:20 for the 100 m freestyle.

Hajos also won the match 1200 m, and are not able to win the 500 m, which was won by Paul Neumann of Australia. Other swimming competitions from 100 m to the sailors, including three Greek sailors in the Bay of Zea near Piraeus, starting with a boat paddle. The winner was ioannis malokinis with a time of two minutes and 20 seconds. 1500 m race was also held.

In 1897, Capt. Henry Sheffield make cans rescuer or rescue cylinder, which is now known as rescue aids in Baywatch. The edges make it slide more quickly on the surface of the water, although it can cause injury. The second Olympic Games held in Paris in 1900 featuring 200 m, 1000 m, and 4000 m freestyle, 200 m backstroke, and 200 m race team (see also swimming in the summer Olympics in 1900).

There are two additional pool match unusual (though quite common at the time), barriers to implementation of swimming in the river Seine (swim with the flow), and the water in the swimming race. 4000 m any style by John Arthur Jarvis won with a record time of under an hour, the longest Olympic swimming perlombangan ever held. Backstroke was also introduced at the Olympic Games in Paris, as well as with water polo. Osborne Swimming Club from Manchester beat club teams from Belgium, France and Germany with great ease.

Trudgen style developed by the swimming teacher and swimmer Australian English descent named Richard (Fred, Frederick) Cabill. Like Trudgen, he noticed the natives of the Solomon Islands, using freestyle. But unlike Trudgen, he saw kicks wag, and study it carefully. He uses this new surge of shaking off the breaststroke or scissor kick from Trudgen.

He uses this movement in 1902 at the International Championships in the UK to create a new world record by swimming outside the force carried by all swimmers Trudgen at 100 yards with a time of 0:58.4 (some sources say that it is her in record time 0 : 58.8). He teaches this style to her six children, each will be a championship swimmer.

Technique became known as freestyle Australia until 1950, when it was shortened to just freestyle, technically known as the front crawl. Olympics 1904 in St. Louis covers the race 50 yard, 100 yard, 220 yard, 440 yard, 880 yard and a mile freestyle, 100-yard backstroke and 440-yard breaststroke, and 4-50 yard freestyle relay (see also swimming 1904 Summer Olympics ).

The race to distinguish between breaststroke freestyle, so now there are two defined styles (breaststroke and backstroke) and freestyle, where most people swim with style Trudgen. It also describes the race for the long jump competition, where the distance without swimming, after jumping into the pool measured.

In 1907 the swimmer Annette Kellerman from Australia visited the United States as an "underwater ballerina", another version of the alignment pool, diving into glass tanks. He was arrested for showing things that are not polite, which appeared swimsuit arms, legs and neck.

Kellerman changed bathing into a long-sleeved shirt, long pants over, and collar, while still maintaining tight clothes that reveal body shape underneath. She later starred in several films, one of them about his personal life. In 1908, the world swimming association of the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA / Federation Internationale de Natation de Amateur) was formed.