ANDREW L. VALATERO JR.
BSA-2B
History of Swimming Jun 21, 1904
1904 Swimming Olympics - The 3rd
May 17, 1844 Olympics hosted in St. Louis, it included
Pre-Olympic Era races up to a mile long. These games
Pre-Olympic - There was a swimming featured a competition to plunge for
competition in London on 1844 the British distance, where the distance without
raced using breaststroke, while the Native swimming, after jumping in a pool, was
Americans used front crawl. measured.
Apr 20, 1847 Jun 29, 1912
Unisex Sport 5th Olympic games - Women were first
Unisex Sport allowed to swim in the Olympic Games in
Nancy Edberg - Nancy Edberg was active as 1912 in Stockholm.
the first woman instructor in swimming in
Stockholm, making swimming lessons Apr 21, 1922
accessible for both genders, she later 5 Time Olympic winner - Johnny
introduced swimming lessons for women in Weissmuller became the first person to
Denmark and Norway. swim the 100 m in less than a minute, He
won 5 Olympic medals and 36 national
Mar 16, 1873 championships and never lost a race in his
Improvised swimming stroke - John Arthur ten-year career.
Trudgen introduced the trudgen to England,
having learned the stroke from Native Apr 21, 1922
Americans during a trip to South America. Breaking Men's Record? - Sybil Bauer was
Later becoming popular worldwide. the first woman to break a men’s world
record over the 440 m backstroke in 6:24.8.
Jun 19, 1875
The English Channel - Captain Matthew Apr 22, 1935
Webb was the first man to swim the English Swimsuit Upgrade - Topless swimsuits for
Channel (between England and France), men were worn for the first time during an
Using breaststroke, he swam 21. 26 miles in official competition.
21 hours and 45 minutes. No other man or
woman swam the channel for the next 31 May 2, 1936 - Jack Sieg, a swimmer also
years. from the University of Iowa developed a
technique called the butterfly, this later
Jan 1, 1896 became popular in the Olympic games.
Swimming in the Olympics - Alfred Hajos of
Hungary won the first gold medal in Jan 21, 1943
Swimming, in the 100 m freestyle. A male 2 Piece Swimsuits - US ordered the
only Olympics hosted in Athens. reduction of fabric in swimsuits by 10% due
to wartime shortages, resulting in the first
Jun 18, 1900 two piece swimsuits. Shortly afterwards the
2nd Olympic games - The 2nd Olympic Bikini was invented in Paris by Louis Reard
games were hosted in Paris, The 4000 m (officially) or Jacques Heim (earlier, but
freestyle was won by John Arthur Jarvis in slightly larger).
under one hour, the longest Olympic
swimming race until the 10k marathon
swim was introduced in 2008.
Apr 24, 1956 place U.S. relay team in the 4×100-meter
Masaru Furukawa - Japanese swimmer freestyle event.
swam all but 5 m under water for the first
three 50 m laps, and also swam half under May 24, 2001
water for the last lap, winning the gold Michael Phelps' first gold - In the 2001
medal. Some swimmers suffered from world championships in swimming. Michael
oxigen starvation and some even passed out won his first gold medal in the 200 meter
suring the race trying to adapt to this new butterfly.
swimming method.
Apr 21, 2004
May 1, 1972 - Mark Spitz A famous Gary Hall Jr. - an American swimmer who
swimmer at the height of his career. During competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004
the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Olympics and won ten Olympic medals.
Germany, he won seven gold medals. He's is well known for his "pro-wrestling
Shortly thereafter in 1973, the first like" antics before a competition; frequently
swimming world championship was held in strutting onto the pool deck in boxing shorts
Belgrade, Yugoslavia by the FINA. and robe, shadow boxing and flexing for the
audience.
Apr 21, 1982 - Kristin Otto. A swimmer
from East Germany won six gold medals, Mar 21, 2005
the most ever won by a woman. 2005 World championships - In the 2005
world championships for men’s swimming
May 21, 1989 Michael Phelps won 5 gold medals.
Tom Jager - An American swimmer, five-
time Olympic champion, and former world Apr 23, 2008
record-holder. He set the 50-meter freestyle Michel Phelps 2008
world record on six occasions during his Beijing 2008 Olympics - In the 2008 Beijing
career. He held this record for over ten years Olympics Michael Phelps wins 8 gold
from August 1989 to June 2000. medals for his country USA.
Jan 21, 1992 - 1992 Summer Olympics May 21, 2012 - 22 Medals
Alexander Popov - A Russian former Michael Phelps - A now retired American
Olympic gold-winning swimmer regarded as swimmer and the most decorated Olympian
one of the greatest sprint freestyle of all time, with a total of 22 medals. Phelps
swimmers of all time, and the only male also holds the all-time records for Olympic
swimmer in history to win four individual gold medals (18, double the second highest
Olympic gold medals in freestyle events. record holders), Olympic gold medals in
individual events (11), and Olympic medals
Mar 24, 1998 in individual events for a male.
Benoît Lecomte - He 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.
Apr 28, 2000
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-
