HISTORY OF SWIMMING -Women were first allowed to swim in the 1912

Summer Olympics in Stockholm

ANCIENT TIMES
-The scientific study of swimming began in 1928 with
-10,000-year-old rock paintings of people swimming
David Armbruster,
were found in the Cave of Swimmers near Wadi Sura
in southwestern Egypt. -The Japanese also used underwater photography to
research the stroke mechanics, and subsequently
-swimming are found in the Babylonian and Assyrian
dominated the1932 Summer Olympics.
wall drawings, depicting a variant of the breaststroke.
Kebir desert 4000 BC -In 1935 topless swimsuits for men were worn for the
first time during an official competition. In 1943, the
-The Nagoda bas-relief also shows swimmers dating
US ordered the reduction of fabric in swimsuits by
back from 3000 BC
10% due to wartime shortages, resulting in the first
EARLY MODERN two piece swimsuits.

-Leonardo da Vinci made early sketches of lifebelts.

-In 1538, Nikolaus Wynmann, a Swiss–German
professor of languages, wrote the earliest known
complete book about swimming
-In 1587, Everard Digby also wrote a swimming book,
-In 1798, GutsMuths wrote another book Kleines
Lehrbuch der Schwimmkunst zum Selbstunterricht
COMPETITIVE SPORT
-In 1828, the first indoor swimming pool, St. George's
Baths, was opened to the public.
-1880, when the first national governing body, the
Amateur Swimming Association.
-In 1844 a swimming competition was held in London
with the participation of two Native Americans
-The world's first women's swimming championship
was held in Scotland in 1892.
-Nancy Edberg popularized women's swimming in
Stockholm from 1847.
OLYMPIC ERA
-The Olympic Games were held in1896 in Athens, a
male-only competition.
-The second Olympic games in Paris in 1900
-In 1908, the world swimming association Fédération
Internationale de Natation Amateur (FINA) was
formed.