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There was a swimming competition in London on 1844 the British raced using breaststroke, while the Native Americans used front crawl.
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Nancy Edberg was active as the first woman instructor in swimming in Stockholm, making swimming lessons accessible for both genders, she later introduced swimming lessons for women in Denmark and Norway.
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John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to England, having learned the stroke from Native Americans during a trip to South America. Later becoming popular worldwide.
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Captain Matthew Webb was the first man to swim the English Channel (between England and France), Using breaststroke, he swam 21. 26 miles in 21 hours and 45 minutes. No other man or woman swam the channel for the next 31 years.
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Alfred Hajos of Hungary won the first gold medal in Swimming, in the 100 m freestyle. A male only Olympics hosted in Athens.
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The 2nd olympic games were hosted in Paris, The 4000 m freestyle was won by John Arthur Jarvis in under one hour, the longest Olympic swimming race until the 10k marathon swim was introduced in 2008.
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he 3rd Olympics hosted in St. Louis, it included races up to a mile long. These games featured a competition to plunge for distance, where the distance without swimming, after jumping in a pool, was measured.
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Women were first allowed to swim in the Olympic Games in 1912 in Stockholm.
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No Olympic Games due wars.
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Johnny Weissmuller became the first person to swim the 100 m in less than a minute, He won 5 Olympic medals and 36 national championships and never lost a race in his ten-year career.
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Sybil Bauer was the first woman to break a men’s world record over the 440 m backstroke in 6:24.8.
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The Olympics returned to Paris and offered 6 events for men, 5 for women, with the USA winning 9 golds.
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Topless swimsuits for men were worn for the first time during an official competition.
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Jack Sieg, a swimmer also from the University of Iowa developed a technique called the butterfly, this later became popular in the Olympic games.
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No games due to war
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No games
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Mark Spitz Wins 7 Gold Medals
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The Americans Finally Beat East Germany
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A swimmer from East Germany won six gold medals, the most ever won by a woman.
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The two touched the wall at exactly the same time 55.92 seconds producing the first official tie in Olympic swimming history. Both oppents were from the United States.
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The United States were recruited for the basketball olympics. They were known as the "Dram Team" winning all 8 games including the championship.
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BBenoît Lecomte swam across the Atlantic Ocean, a total of 5,600 kilometres in 72 days, swimming 6 to 8 hours daily. He was accompanied by three sailors on a boat.
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Anthony Ervin An American international swimmer who won 2 Olympic medals and 2 World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle, and earned a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle event.
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In the 2001 world championships in swimming. MIchael won his first gold medal in the 200 meter butterfly.
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Gary Hall Jr. an American swimmer who competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and won ten Olympic medals. He's is well known for his "pro-wrestling like" antics before a competition; frequently strutting onto the pool deck in boxing shorts and robe, shadow boxing and flexing for the audience.
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2005 world championships for mens swimming Michael Phelps won 5 gold medals.
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In the 2008 Beijing Olympics Michael phelps wins 8 gold medals for his country USA.
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Michael Phelps A now retired American swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (18, double the second highest record holders), Olympic gold medals in individual events (11), and Olympic medals in individual events for a male.
