Swimming NATATION before swimming

The float, which found the existence of life, God has a lot of mushroom creatures on
Swim, man and was able to swim since he found on the banks of rivers, lakes and seas,
I have practiced human and March swimming necessity defensive or offensive in its response
Threats to him. Thus Valsbahh old as history itself, practiced
The ancient pharaohs, evidenced by the pharaonic sites in the Louvre
In Paris, which represents some of the ancient Egyptians as they swim in the Nile River,
Indicate epic Iliad of Homer knew that the Greeks used them in swimming,
Battles of war, and in Alasparti community swimming pool was a compulsory subject
Learned by every child and where the common epithet foolish man is the man who does not know how to read

And swimming, while the Romans They were trained armies to cross the river with a full
Ordnance pool and I have practiced (Okrobin) The mother of the Roman Emperor
(Nero) swim for forty years for several miles a day.

The King of France Charlemagne has built a swimming pool that he can exercise this kind of
Sports, disciple of Louis XIV, who was staying games swimming in the river
Seine and involving personally.
It was the first book about the emergence of swimming in 1538 (Epiphany) important evidence on the increase
People's interest in the sport, which has continued to evolve and spread, even the back of a book
(Jonfrost) in the year 1816 for breaststroke, and the author is a teacher of swimming explained
Principles breaststroke in a scientific manner.

The rapid development of the pool and its movements, it began when I moved from swimming
Seas and rivers to swimming pools and have formed associations and clubs appeared
National Association for swimming in London in 1837, and turned to the first union for swimming
Private amateur in England in 1896. The International Swimming Federation, The delay his appearance
Until 1908.

Development and spread
Swimming:

Breaststroke began to spread
Starting from 1840, and held the first Msabaktha in 1844, which won the most
Spaqatha one of the Indians. Then pool side emerged with the emergence arm out of the water
In 1855.

The pool crawling on the abdomen, they are closely linked to the name of the family (Cavill)
Fredrick Cafill who tried to cross the English Channel with fellow Englishman Captain (Web)
But he did not succeed, he traveled to Australia, and worked as a teacher for swimming Vastrk one of his sons
(Richard Cavell) in competitions that were held in 1902 in London. In 1903
He traveled (Cavill) to America, and worked as coach in San Francisco, including the method of spread
Pool crawl on the belly and most famous heroes of the time (Johnny Asmlr) In
1932 Japanese emerged this type of swimming and excelled in it and then spread these
Way all over the world and took out most of the countries are still one of the most important ways
Swimming and fastest.

In 1948 appeared the butterfly or dolphin pool, the pool back, it has evolved
A lot since its inception after World War I in 1917 were movements
Lead such movements breaststroke, have developed and become blows hands such strikes
(Alkrol) pool crawling on the abdomen, legs with blows.



It is worth mentioning that the races
Long in swimming, before the short races historically, the most important race was Old
Racing Channel, and these races are different from short races not only in the distance
But training and implementation of ways, but this kind of swim its organizations and its law
And methods for arbitration, and the races are held in the seas, rivers and lakes
And it has a specific itinerary, and the most famous of these races are:
1. Channel Race (France - England) 33 km in length.
2. Race Capri - Naples (Italy) 30 km in length.
3. International Race of the Nile (Helwan - Cairo) Egypt 57 kilometers in length.
4. race or Ontario (Canada) 45 km in length.


The sport of swimming distance
Short Vtad one of the key games that have entered the curriculum Olympic
The first Olympiad was held in Athens in 1896, and incorporated the sport of swimming for women
In the Olympic cycle curriculum in Stockholm in 1912.

Dock specifications
International swimming:

Fifty meters in length and width of one
Twenty meters and a depth of one meter and eight-tenths of a meter (1.80 m).
Number eight lanes, and one two-meter width and half a meter, leaving a half meters
Outside each of the first and eighth Alhartin must put ropes to separate these spaces for
Lanes.
Ropes lanes stretching the length of the basin, and consists of all the rope detached signs diameter of 0.05 m
You must paint the buoys and along the five-meter distance from the ends of the pool color
Distinct from the rest of the floats.