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In 1896, 1900 and 1904 swimming was held in open water at the Olympics.
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In 1896, 1900 and 1904 swimming was held in open water for the Olympics.
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In 1896, 1900 and 1904 swimming was held in open water for the Olympics.
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A custom built 100 m pool was in the middle of the track and field oval at London 1908 Olympic games.
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1912 Olympics were the first year women were able to compete in swimming, First gold medallist was Helen de Portao and Charlotte Cowper. Only 2 events were open to women – 100 m free and 4x100 m relay.
Fanny Durack was the first woman to win a gold medal for swimming -- at the 1912 games in Stockholm -
First competitive swim suit was desgined and made of wool. Used a different material back then.
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Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel and first woman to beat a men’s record in a major sport
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At the 1936 Berlin Olympics diving blocks first appeared which included start handles for backstroke
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Full body swim suits were worn by men up until the 1940's.
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Donna de Varona youngest to compete at 1960 Olympics and in 1964 won 2 gold medals and then after that she was the first female sports broadcaster on tv.
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Partly in the reaction to Tommy Simpson death the International Olympic Committee established the medical commission to fight against doping in sports. The commission is given 3 guiding principles protection of health of athletes, respect for medical and sport ethics, and equality for all competing.
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Mexico City Olympics was when women were allowed to swim distances up to 800 m
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1968 – was the first year that International Committee produced a banned substance list examples, anabolic agents, hormones and related substances, stimulant and narcotics.
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Lycra swim suits changed the look of swimming in the 1970's.
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First time in the olympics that goggles were allowed. Gave swimmers advantage to see were they were going in the water and when they were approcahing the wall.
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Kornelia Ender was a former East German swimmer who at the 1976 Summer Olympics became the first woman swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games, all in world record times. It was later proven that the East German team doctors had systematically administered steroids to her which was thought to be without her knowledge.
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The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics had a pool with a moveable bulkhead so that the pool could be used for short and long course
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The 1988 Seoul Olympic pool was missing many features, including flat walls that rise above the water surface at the start and turn ends
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In the 1990's there was a reintroduction of the full body swim suit awith a better design cmpared to the 1940 version.
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1990 – First athlete to die in Olympic competition due to doping. Danish cyclist Knut Jensen dies on august 26 1990 at the summer Olympics in Rome during a 100 km team trial race.
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The 1996 Atlanta Olympics had a movable floor to set pool depth and placement of a track on the bottom to allow video cameras
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Michelle Smith, was an Irish swimmer who won four medals at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games and became the most successful Olympian in Ireland and the country’s first woman to capture a gold medal. The contraversy arose as to how she became so fast, so quickly and thoughts were that she was taking drugs.
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The World AntiDoping Agency (WADA) was created in November 1999 through a collective initiative of sport organizations and governments led by the IOC
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All major sporting federations and 73 governments approved a resolution accepting the WADA code as the basis for the fight against doping.
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The Athens 2004 Olympics and Paralympics games were the first games to take place after WADA code had been accepted and implemented by sports organizations. The Olympic oath sworn by athletes was changed after the Lausanne conference in 1999, this was added: committing ourselves to a sport without doping and without drugs.
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Ye Shiwen set the first swimming world record of the 2012 Olympics. She swam the final 50 m freestyle faster than American swimmer Ryan Lochte when he won the same race in the men’s event
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Still till this day women cannot compete in 1500 m only men can.
