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different distances[1]. At the same time in underwater position according to the current rules it is allowed to swim not more than 15 m after the start or turn (in breaststroke similar restriction is formulated differently); high-speed diving refers not to swimming but to underwater sport.

According to IOC classification (according to "one federation, one sport" principle), swimming as a sport includes: swimming itself, water polo, diving and synchronous swimming[2]; Russian language sports literature uses the word combination "water sports" as synonym of swimming in this meaning. FINA (French: Fédération Internationale de Natation, created in 1908)[3][4], which organises the world championships (since 1973), and LEN (French: Ligue Européenne de Natation, created in 1926)[5], which organises the European championships (since 1926).

According to the All-Russian Registry of Sports, all aquatic sports are considered to be various sports.

Swimming is also part of the modern pentathlon (200m swimming), triathlon (various open water distances) and some applied polyathlon.

Contents
1 History
2 Types of swimming
2.1 Freestyle
2.2 Backstroke
2.3 Brass, butterfly
2.4 Combined swimming, medley relay
2.5 Other events
3 Competitions in the pool
3.1 Courses
3.2 Pool length
3.3 competition system
4 Open Water Swimming
5 Swimsuit
6 Notes
7 Literature
8 References
History
Drawings in archaeological artifacts show that people in Ancient Egypt, Assyria, Phoenicia and many other countries knew how to swim several thousand years before Christ, and the swimming methods they knew resembled the modern crawl and breaststroke. At that time, swimming was of a purely applied nature - when fishing, hunting for waterfowl, underwater fishing, in the military. In ancient Greece swimming began to be used as an important means of physical education[6].

The first swimming competitions date back to the turn of the XV-XVI centuries (for instance, in 1515 there were swimming competitions in Venice)[2]. The first sports organization of swimmers appeared in England in 1869 ("The Association of Swimming Amateurs of England"), similar organizations later appeared in Sweden (1882), Germany, Hungary (1886), France (1887), the Netherlands, the USA (1888), New Zealand (1890), Russia (1894), Italy, Austria (1899)... The increase of popularity of swimming in the late XIX century was connected with the beginning of the construction of artificial pools[7].

In 1889 major international competitions were held in Vienna with the participation of athletes from several European countries; they began to be held regularly thereafter and were called "European Championships"[8][9]. In 1896 swimming was included in the program of the first Olympic Games, and has been a part of the Olympic program ever since.

Before the 1908 Olympic Games began, FINA developed and approved the "FINA Rules", which included a list of distances for the competitions, how to set up and conduct the heats and how world records were registered. At the same time, the first world records in swimming were registered, the earliest of which was the result of Zoltan Halmai in the 100 m freestyle (1.05.8), shown on 3 December 1905 in Vienna[10].

Types of swimming
Freestyle

Krol
Freestyle is a swimming discipline in which the swimmer is allowed to swim any way they want, changing them arbitrarily as the course progresses. Currently, all swimmers use the crawl.

During the development of swimming, the following styles were used:

Brass. The breaststroke technique was first analyzed by the Dane Nicholas Winman
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