Swimming



Swimming has been around for a long time. There are references to swimming before 2000 B.C.E. That's a long time ago! In 1578 a man by the name of Nikolaus Wynman wrote the first swimming book. In the 1800s competitive swimming was started. It was started in Europe using breaststroke as the main stroke to compete. Swimming was in the first modern day Olympics, that took place in Athens, Greece in 1896. In 1902 the front crawl, also known as freestyle, was introduced to the Western World. In 1908 FINA was formed (Fédération Internationale de Natation). FINA is still around They make the decisions in swimming to this day. They legalize suits,they approve pools, etc. Swimming has been around for quite a while, There are some famous swimmers that you will hear about on this website. Also swimming, whether you think it or not swimming has A LOT of rules, from how you do the stroke to the pool size. We can't forget about the attire and equipment that plays a  huge roll in racing. You will also hear about a starting block I built to help the blind and/or deaf.