Swimming Information

Why is swimming compulsory?

1. You need to learn how to swim just in case you drown and you need to get to shore when no one is in your sight to rescue you.
2. Learning to swim is an absolutely good advantage for you to take when you need to learn more.
3. No matter how old you are you can still learn how to swim and swim in the pools or at the beach.

Different swimming skills.

1. Backstroke - Backstroke is wonderful for when your tired of swimming forwards.
2. Freestyle - Freestyle can be used when your having hard time getting back to shore when your good and doing freestyle properly.
3. Breaststroke - You can use breaststroke when you like to.

Water Safety:

1. Make sure someone is supervising you.
2. Never do flips and diving in shallow area of the pool.
3. Never run on the sides of the pool.
4. Don't play in the pool when someone is swimming.

Facts about swimming:

1. It could save you life.
2. Swimmers sweat in pools
3. The oldest stroke is backstroke.
4. Most of the United State’s population can’t swim.
5. In 1930 that's when rubber goggles were made.
6. Womens weren’t allowed to compete in the Olympics until 1912.
7. Swimming became an Olympic sport in 1908.
8. Australian swimmer, Fanny Durack, became the first woman to win gold medal in the 100 yard freestyle in the same year.
9. Children can take swim lessons as early as two months.
10. Swimmers use every muscle in their bodies.
11. Free Divers can hold their breath for more than 10 minutes.
12. Olympic pools hold 660,000 gallons of water, bathtubs can only hold 70 gallons.
13. Aleix Segura Vendrell is a man from Spanish who held his breath for 24 minutes and 3 seconds.
14. Nearly 2000 swimmers make it to the Olympics trials.
15. Swimmers lose 125ml of sweat inside the water.
16. Helps reduce stress.
17. Strengthens your lungs and heart.
18. Slowest Olympic swim stroke is breaststroke.
19. Started in 1896.
20. Gertrude Ederle a teenager in 1926 swan in the English Channel.
21. The Deep Eddy swimming pool was built in 1915, built in Texas.
22. Swim fins were invented by Benjamin Franklin.
23. Swimming first became an Olympic event in 1896.
24. Swimming first appeared in the Olympic during in the 1948 game.
25. The Fleishhacker Pool was the largest swimming pool in United States’. Opened on 23 April 1925.
26. It started on 1830.
27. Backstroke was added in, in 1904.
28. Womens’ swimming became Olympic in 1912.
29. Make you sweat.
30. Help you lose weight.