Aquatics

Olympic sport of different water-based disciplines that includes swimming, water polo, diving, open water swimming and artistic swimming. It is considered as one of the medal- rich sport in any multisport international event together with Athletics.

 

• Swimming

• Aquatics

• Competitive swimming

• Water Polo

Simple mechanics of swimming

• Act of moving through the water by using the arms, legs and body in motions called strokes

• Act of doing proper breathing in water

• Act of doing kick and dive into the water

• Act of proper floating in water

World governing body of aquatics

• Federation Internationale de Natation

• Swimming Association

• Aquatics Federation olympics

• World Aquatics

Why freestyle is considered as the fastest stroke?

• Because one arm is always pulling underwater and able to deliver a powerful propulsion.

• Because of flutter kick motion of legs

• Because of head position which avoids dragging in the water

• Because of the side breathing pattern

Uses a frog-style kick, where you will bend your knees and then kick your legs out beneath the water.

• Freestyle

• Backstroke

• Breaststroke

• Butterfly

Most bemedalled athlete in the history of the Olympics. (Swimmer)

• Michael Phelps

• Mark Spitz

• Ryan Murphy

• Zhang Yufei

Kind of stroke in swimming

• Backstroke

• Freestyle

• Breaststroke

• Butterfly

kind of stroke in swimming

• Freestyle

• Butterfly

• Breaststroke

• Backstroke

Kind of stroke in swimming

• Freestyle

• Backstroke

• Butterfly

• Front Crawl

Olympic size pool

• 50 x 25 meters

• 50 x 25 feet

• 50 x 50 meters

• 25 x 25 meters