Background and History of Swimming

Have you heard about the history of swimming? Here, I want to share some information about swimming. Swimming has been founded by English people in urban society during the 18th century. During that period, swimming competitions were being held in London's six artificial pools, this competitons were organized by the National Swimming Society in England and then has been expanded and being monitored by the Amateur Swimming Association of Great Britain where there received 300 members for the first phase.

In 1896, swimming become an olympic sport for men with 100 metres and 1500 metres freestyle competitions held in open water. Soon after, as swimming gained more popularity more freestyle events were included followed by variety of techniques.

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. One used an obstacle course and another was a test of underwater swimming endurance and the third was a 4000 metre event, the longest competitive swimming event ever. None of the three was ever used in the Olympics again.