Swimming - history, and what
The Charlemagne King of France has built ponds for swimming allow him to practice this kind of sport, and pursued by Louis XIV, who was staying games swimming in the River Seine and personally involving.
The emergence of the first book about swimming in 1538 (Epiphany), important evidence on the increased interest of people in this sport, which continued to evolve and spread, until the back of the book (Johnfrost) year 1816 for swimming the chest, and the author is a teacher of swimming explained the principles of the breaststroke in a scientific way.
The rapid development of the pool and its movements, it began when I moved to swim the seas and rivers to swimming pools and formed their associations and clubs which showed the National Association for swimming in London in 1837, and became the first union of private swimming amateur in England in 1896. The International Federation for swimming, delayed his appearance until the year 1908.
Development and spread of swimming:
Breaststroke began to spread from the year 1840, and held the first Msabaktha in 1844 which won the most Spaqatha a Red Indian. He then appeared with the advent of pool side arm out of the water in 1855.
The pool crawl on the belly, they are closely related as a family (Cavell) Fredrick Cafill who tried to cross the English Channel with his colleague, the English Captain (Web), but did not succeed, he traveled to Australia and worked as a teacher of swimming subscribe to one of his sons (Richard Cavell) in competitions conducted in 1902 in London. In 1903 he traveled (Cavell) to America, and the work of a coach in San Francisco, which has spread the way swimming crawl on the belly and most famous heroes of the time (Johnny Asmlr) In 1932 emerged the Japanese of this type of swimming and excelled, and then spread this way all over the world and adopted by most states and is still one of the most important and fastest ways of swimming.
In 1948 appeared butterfly or dolphin, while swimming back, it has evolved considerably since its inception after World War I in 1917 were movements lead such movements breaststroke, have developed and become strikes hands, such as strikes (Alkrol) swimming crawl on the belly, with strikes legs .
It is worth mentioning that the races long swim, before the races short Historically, the most important race is the race Channel, and these races are different from racing short is not in the distance, but in ways that training and implementation, but this type of swimming regulations and its law and methods of arbitration for, and the races are held at Sea and rivers and lakes and have a specific itinerary, and the most famous of these races are:
1. Race Channel (France - England) 33 kilometers in length.
2. Race Capri - Naples (Italy) 30 km in length.
3. Race Nile International (Helwan - Cairo) Egypt distance of 57 kilometers.
4. Race or Ontario (Canada) 45 km in length.
The sport of swimming short distances to contest one of the games that have entered the basic curriculum in the Olympic Olympics first held in Athens in 1896, and incorporated the sport of swimming for women in the curriculum at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912.
Pool of international specifications:
A length of fifty meters and width of twenty-one meters and a depth of one meter and eight-tenths of a meter (1.80 m).
The number of lane eight, and display a single two-meter and a half a meter, leaving a distance of half a meter outside each of the first lane, eighth and ropes must be put to separate lanes for these spaces.
Extends along the lane ropes pelvis, and each rope is made up of the signs of contiguous 0.05 m in diameter should be painted buoys and along a distance of five meters from the ends of the pool distinctive color from the rest of the floats.
Platforms off:
High platform above the water surface of half a meter to three-quarters of a meter in length (58 cm) and display (50 cm) minimum. Numbered each platform of platforms initiation of the four aspects, and the distance that separates the swimming pool for diving must be at least five meters.
The arbitral tribunal:
The arbitral tribunal is composed of:
Rule - the Chief Justice - Chief Almiqatien - Monitor turnover per lane judges performance - marked the start - Miqatyon per lane - three judges of the line of the end of each lane.
Swimming races:
The sport of swimming sport for the common men and women in the following distances:
Free swimming:
And meaning that leads the rider who wants to swim style, with the exception of race medley relay or individual event where diverse leads in any manner other than the butterfly or swimming pool or on the chest on the back.
In the freestyle swimmer during the rotation can to touch the wall in any part of his body, and is not mandatory that touched his hand.
Distances in the free-swimming:
100 meters - 200 meters - 400 meters - 800 meters - 1500 meters for men only relay 4 × 100 meters. Relay for men only 4 × 200 meters.
Breaststroke:
You must put the body on the chest fully and shoulders in a single line with the surface of the water, and should appear part of the head above the water always, but at first in case of rotation allowed the swimmer strongly one Baldhirain and at once the two men when Gattsa water.
At the roundabout and at the end of the race must touch the wall with both hands together.
Distances in swimming on the chest: 100 meters - 200 meters.
Backstroke:
When you give the signal for the contestants during the rotation pushes the wall, and swim on their backs for the duration of the race. And prevents the rider to change the normal position on the back before you touch his head or his hand or arm, the end of the basin during the rotation or the end of the race.
Distances in the backstroke: 100 meters - 200 meters.