Swimming Records Women

Women's swimming is a great and popular part of the Olympics that has produced the great women athletes like Misty Hyman, Amanda Beard, Janet Evans, Inge de Bruijn, Brooke Bennett, Yana Klochkova, Coughlin and Jodie Henry.

Swimming Records in Olympics - Women

• Heike Friedrich of East Germany holds the record of women's 200 meter freestyle swimming event. In the 1988 Seoul Summer Games, he made the record timing of 1:57.65 seconds.
• Janet Evans of USA had the timing of 4:03.85 seconds in women's 400 meter freestyle swimming event. The event was 1988 Seoul Olympics.
• Inge De Bruijn of Netherlands holds the Olympic record in women's 50 meter freestyle and 100 meter butterfly swimming events. Her timing was 24.13 seconds and 56.61 seconds in both the events respectively and the records were made in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
• Jodie Henry of Australia holds the Olympic record in women's 100 meter freestyle swimming event. In the 2004 Athens Summer Games, she made the record timing of 53.52 seconds.
• Brooke Bennett of USA holds the Olympic record in women's 800 meter freestyle swimming event. Her timing was 8:19.67 seconds and the event was the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
• Natalie Coughlin of USA holds the record of women's 100 meter backstroke swimming event. With a record timing of 59.68 seconds, it was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
• Krisztina Egerszegi of Hungary finished women's 200 meter backstroke swimming event in record 2:07.06 seconds. The event was 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
• Xuejuan Luo of China holds the Olympic record in women's 100 meter breaststroke swimming event. With the timing of 1:06.64 seconds, the record was made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.
• Amanda Beard of USA finished the women's 200 meter breaststroke swimming event with the record timing of 2:23.37 seconds. The event was the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
• Misty Hyman of USA completed the women's 200 meter butterfly swimming event with the record timing of 2:05.88 seconds. The achievement was in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.
• An Australian team comprising Alice Mills, Lisbeth Lenton, Petria Thomas and Jodie Henry holds the Olympic record in women's 4X100 meter freestyle relay swimming event. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games with a timing of 3:35.94 seconds.
• An Australian team of Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas and Jodie Henry holds the Olympic record in women's 4X 100 meter medley relay swimming event. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games with a timing of 3:57.32 seconds.
• A USA team of Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, dana Vollmer and Kaitlin Sandeno holds the Olympic record in women's 4X200 meter freestyle relay swimming event. The event was 2004 Athens Summer Games and the timing was 7:53.42 seconds.
• Yana Klochkova of Ukraine holds the twin records in women's 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley swimming events. Both the records were made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games. In the 200 meter individual medley and 400 meter individual medley, Yana's timing was of 2:10.68 seconds and 4:33.59 seconds respectively.

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Swimming Records Men

As swimming is was although popular but not a part of Ancient Olympics. Before first AD, Europe and Japan were the host of the swimming competitions. But it bfecame the popular sport when it was introduced in 1896 in modern Olympics.

• Alexander Popov of Russia holds the current Olympic record in men's 50 meter freestyle swimming competition. His timing was. The record was made in the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games with the timing of 21.91 seconds.
• Ian Thorpe of Australia holds Olympic records for men's 200 meter freestyle swimming and men's 400 meter freestyle swimming. He made the record in men's 200 meter freestyle swimming with a timing of 1:44.71 seconds in the 2004 Athens Summer Games while the record in the men's 400 meter freestyle swimming was made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games. The timing was 3:40.59 seconds.
• Grant Hackett of Australia holds the current Olympic record in men's 1500 meter freestyle swimming event. He made the record in the 2004 Athens Summer Games with the timing of 14:43.40 seconds.
• Pieter Van Den Hoogenband of the Netherlands holds the current Olympic record in men's 100 meter freestyle swimming competition. The record was made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games with the timing of 47.84 seconds.
• Aaron Peirsol of USA holds the Olympic record in men's 100 meter and 200 meter backstroke swimming events. Timing achieved in the 100 meter backstroke swimming event was 53.45 seconds while in 200 meter backstroke swimming, the time taken was 1:54.95 seconds. Both records were made in 2004 Athens Games.
• Kosuke Kitajima of Japan holds the Olympic record in men's 200 meter breaststroke swimming event. The record was made by in the 2004 Athens Summer Games and the timing was 2:09.44 seconds.
• Michael Phelps of USA holds the record of men's 100 meter butterfly swimming event with the timing was 51.25 seconds. The event was 2004 Athens Olympics. He also finished the 200 meter individual medley in 1:57.14 seconds in same event creating a new Olympic record.
• Brendan Hansen of USA holds the record of men's 100 meter breaststroke in the 2004 Athens Summer Games. The timing was 1:00.01 seconds.
• Australian team of Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim, Todd Pearson and Bill Kirby holds the Olympic record in men's 4X200 meter freestyle relay. With the timing of 7:07.05 seconds, the record was made in 2000 Sydney Olympics. .
• South African team of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling holds the Olympic record in men's 4X100 meter freestyle relay swimming event. The record, which has the timing of 3:13.17 seconds, was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics.
• A team of the USA comprising Aaron Peirsol, Brenden Hansen, Ian Crocker and Jason Lezak holds the Olympic record in men's 4X 100 meter medley relay. With a timing of 3:30.68 seconds, the record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics

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Olympic Swimming - Videos

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Pool: 28 July – 4 August 2012 at the London Aquatics Centre, and open water: on 9 & 10 August in The Serpentine in London's Hyde Park. Olympic Swimming Tickets are available at Sport Ticket Exchange at reasonable prices. SportTicketExchange  is an excellent place for Olympic fans to buy or sell Olympic Tickets especially Swimming Tickets.

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Olympic Swimming - Swimwear

Swimsuit: Competitive swimwear seeks to improve upon bare human skin for a speed advantage. swimsuit has rubber or plastic bumps that break up the water close to the body.
Swim cap: A swim cap keeps the swimmer's hair out of the way to reduce drag. Caps may be made of latex, silicone or Lycra.
Goggles: Goggles keep water and chlorine out of swimmers' eyes.

Swim-fins: Rubber fins are used to help kick faster.
Paddles: Training equipment used for ease of pulling. These are plastic, and attach to the hand with thick rubber tubes.
Snorkel: A standard snorkel is made out of rubber and is used to keep the head straight while swimming.

Olympic Swimming - Swimming Pools

Most swimming sport events are held in special competition swimming pools, which are either long course pools such as those used in the Olympic Games (50 m) or short course pools such as those used in the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m). Competition pools have starting blocks from which the competitor can dive in, and possibly also touch-sensitive pads to electronically record the swimming time of each competitor.

Olympic Swimming - Swimming Styles

Freestyle is an unregulated swimming style used in swimming competitions according to the rules of FINA. The term freestyle is often used as a synonym for the front crawl. Competitors in freestyle swimming can use any of the unregulated strokes such as front crawl, dog paddle, or sidestroke, etc. This style provides the greatest speed.

The breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on his or her chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to its stability and the ability to keep the head out of the water a large portion of the time. But in competitive swimming, the breaststroke is regarded as one of the most difficult strokes, requiring comparable endurance and leg strength to other strokes.

The backstroke or back crawl, is one of the four swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. This has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. The swimming style is similar to an upside down  front crawl.

The butterfly is a swimming stroke swum on the breast, with both arms moving simultaneously. The butterfly kick was developed separately, and is also known as the "dolphin kick". It is the newest swimming style swum in competition, first swum in 1933. Younger swimmers needs months and even years of practice.

Olympic Swimming - Overview

Swimming is one of the most popular recreational sports that can be enjoyed by all ages. The ability to swim enables people to participate in a wide variety of water sports such as snorkelling, water skiing, jet skiing, wind surfing, sailing, boating, fishing, rowing, and canoeing, without the fear of getting into trouble, and reduces the risk of drowning. Fear of water, particularly if a person suddenly gets out of their depth, prevents a lot of people going into a swimming pool or enjoying beach holidays. Many of the newer watersports require expertise in handling a craft as well as swimming proficiency.

Olympic Swimming - Swimming Principles

The basic principle of swimming is buoyancy. The human body has a high water content and its density is close to the density of water. Due to its cavities (most prominently the lungs), the average density of the human body is lower than that of water, so it naturally floats. There are two ways to swim faster:
    * increase power
    * reduce water resistance

Because the power needed to overcome resistance increases with the third power of the velocity the first option is not really effective.

Olympic Swimming - Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur

In 1908, the world swimming association, Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), was formed in several European countries from 1882 to 1889. It was recognized by the International Olympic Committee  (IOC), administering international competition in the aquatic sports. Its headquarter is in Lausanne, Switzerland. Now 171 countries affiliated with this organization.Current President of FINA is Dr. Julio César Maglione.

Olympic Swimming - History of Swimming

Swimming has been recorded of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BC. In 1578, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming. Competitive swimming in Europe  started around 1800. The English are considered the first modern society to develop swimming as a sport. By 1837 swimming competitions were being held in London’s six artificial pools, these competitions were organized by the National Swimming Society in England. As the sport grew in popularity many more swimming pools were built, and when a new governing body, the Amateur Swimming Association of Great Britain, was organized in 1880, it numbered more than 300 member clubs. Swimming is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation Amateur (FINA).

Olympic Swimming - History

Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens with the 100 meters and 1500 meters freestyle competitions held in open water. Soon after, as swimming gained popularity, more freestyle events were included. The first modern Olympic Games had only four swimming events, three of them freestyle. The second Olympics in Paris in 1900 included three unusual swimming events, the third was a 4,000-metre event, the longest competitive swimming event ever. The Olympics have now developed to 32 swimming races, 16 for men and 16 for women. The Special Olympics includes competitive swimming for people with disabilities and has 22 events for men and 22 for women.