Answer: Johnny Weissmuller
At the age of eleven, Weissmuller lied about his age in order to join the YMCA. At that early age, he was already an impressive athlete, excelling at swimming, running and high jump. He started swimming competitively in 1921, at the age of seventeen. Three years later, he swam at his first Olympic Games, winning three gold medals. He also won a bronze medal in team water polo. In 1928 he represented the United States at another Olympics, earning two gold medals. In 1927 he set a record in the one hundred meter freestyle race and his record stood for seventeen years.
He retired from swimming with an unbeaten amateur record and was named the greatest swimmer of the first half of the twentieth century by the Associated Press. After retiring, he starred in twelve films as Tarzan and in sixteen films as Jungle Jim. He died in 1984 and as his coffin was being lowered into the ground, his famous Tarzan yell was played three times, per his request.
From Quiz: Let's Talk About Pecs
Answer: Federation Internationale de Natation
Federation Internationale de Natation ("International Swimming Federation") was founded in 1908, and is headquartered in Lausanne.
From Quiz: Sink or Swim
Answer: 4
The standard strokes are front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.
From Quiz: Swimming: The Basics
Answer: 1972 Munich
Spitz set the mark at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, winning 4 individual medals and 3 relay medals. He, or his team, set world records in each event.
From Quiz: Michael Phelps vs. Mark Spitz
Answer: United States
Michael Fred Phelps was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born on June 30, 1985. He is an American swimmer.
From Quiz: Michael Phelps
Answer: Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle
Each stroke should have an equal part of the overall distance. In an IM, freestyle means the swimmer may swim any style, other than backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly. Most swimmers choose to swim front crawl.
From Quiz: Swimming
Answer: 4
There are four. The four are: Freestyle (commonly known as the front crawl), Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Butterfly.
From Quiz: Olympic Swim Team
Answer: Indiana University
He graduated in 1972.
From Quiz: Mark Spitz
Answer: Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle
A lot of swimmers like the fact that backstroke is right after butterfly, a little time to "rest", as the back is not as hard as the fly.
From Quiz: Elements of Swimming
Answer: A bronze statue of a horse
Medals were not awarded in either the first or second Olympic Games of the modern era. Freddie received a bronze horse weighing over fifty pounds. He beat Zoltan Halmay from Hungary in the event.
In the 1920s the International Olympic Committee issued the winners from 1896 and 1900 with commemorative medals.
From Quiz: Australians Don't Crawl - Swimming Downunder
Answer: Olympic Games
Petria has won many gold medels in her pet events, 100M and 200M Butterfly.
From Quiz: Swimming - Petria Thomas
Answer: 3 meter spring board, 10 meter platform
In addition to these individual diving events, there are also synchronized 3 meter spring board, and 10 meter platform diving events.
From Quiz: Swimming and Diving
Answer: Freestyle
Freestyle is the main swimming style and the easiest one for distance purposes. It is the fastest stroke for most swimmers, and is usually swum in the freestyle relay (freestyle allows a swimmer to use any swim stroke or style he or she prefers). The only race to have a distance over 400m is freestyle, in which frontcrawl is most commonly performed.
From Quiz: The Best Ever Sport - Swimming
Answer: competitions
British Championships and National Age Groups, are just two held each year.
From Quiz: UK Synchronised Swimming
Answer: Front, Back, Inward, Reverse, Twister
Flying is a type of position that isn't used very often.
From Quiz: Diving
Answer: Moraga
Matthew Biondi born in Moraga, California.
From Quiz: Swimming
Answer: Hungary
Darnyi won the 200m individual medley in Seoul in 1988 with a then world record time of 2:00.17. In 1992, he was just off that time with a 2:00.76, which was still good enough for the gold. While swimming the 400m individual medley in 1988, Darnyi won by nearly three seconds with a then world record time of 4:14.75. Between 1988 and 1992, he had lowered his world record to 4:12.36, but was about two seconds off that in the Barcelona Olympics with a time of 4:14.23. His performance was still good enough for his fourth and final gold medal, and a new Olympic record.
From Quiz: Who Did They Swim For? Part 2
Answer: United States
Mark Spitz won an amazing 8 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze medal in swimming in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics, including five gold medals (each of which was won in world record time) in four days in the 1972 Munich Olympics.
From Quiz: Who Did They Swim For? Part 1
Answer: breastroke
With younger swimmers, the breaststroke is often referred to as the "frog" stroke.
From Quiz: Swimming Basics
Answer: 28th August 1965
He was born in Busto Arsizio, in the province of Varese in Italy.
From Quiz: Umberto Pelizzari
Answer: 50
A usual public swimming pool is only 25 metres.
From Quiz: Super Swimming
Answer: Breast stroke
The breast stroke is my least favorite stroke!
From Quiz: Swimming for Champions
Answer: Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle
From Quiz: Swimming
Answer: Janet Evans
Evans started swimming early, setting national age records at the age of eleven. She swam through high school and while at Stanford University. While at college, she won the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding female college swimmer for 1988-1989. In 1989 she was named the top amateur athlete in the USA, earning the James E. Sullivan Award. She was named the Female World Swimmer of the Year in 1987, 1989 and 1990 by "Swimming World Magazine." She won three gold medals at the Seoul Olympics and it is there that she earned the nickname "Miss Perpetual Motion." Her 800-meter freestyle record of 8:16:22 was one of the longest records set in swimming and stood through several Olympics. She was undefeated in every 400, 800, and 1500-meter freestyle swimming event for over five years!
She has a distinctive windmill style of swimming and tremendous cardio-respiratory reserves. Despite being smaller and shorter than many competitors, she was incredibly successful against bigger and seemingly stronger athletes.
From Quiz: Let's Talk About Pecs
Answer: Backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle
Not to be confused with the order for the individual medley, which is butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.
From Quiz: Sink or Swim
Answer: 200m butterfly
In his one event at the 2000 Games, Phelps placed fifth in the 200 meter butterfly, an event he would later win at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
From Quiz: Michael Phelps vs. Mark Spitz
Answer: Two
He had 2 world records, 2 American records, and 3 Olympic records that year. One of the American records only won him a bronze, but the other six won him a gold. He only won one other medal that year, that did not get him a record. He won a bronze for 4X100 meter freestyle relay. It took him 3:14.62.
From Quiz: Michael Phelps
Answer: Bob Bowman
Bob Bowman became Michael's coach in his youth, at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club.
From Quiz: Michael Phelps: America's Swimmer
Answer: Tumble Turn
The Tumble Turn, aka a Flip Turn, is a turn in which the swimmer does a flip right against the wall then pushes off the wall with their feet on their back, then turning over on to their stomach in the process.
From Quiz: Olympic Swim Team
Answer: Hawaii
He learned to swim there, he later moved to California in 1952.
From Quiz: Mark Spitz
Answer: All of these
Fanny overcame all the constraints placed on the women swimmers of her time. It was estimated that her swimsuit was actually the heaviest of all the competitors', being made of wool. In Australia at that time, when women trained or competed, men spectators were forbidden to enter the pool area. This of course severely limited the time any female swimmer could even access a pool. The pool in Stockholm was built in a harbour inlet and there were no defined lanes. Competitors started their race from a wooden deck. Despite all this, Fanny broke the world record twice on the way to her historic win.
From Quiz: Australians Don't Crawl - Swimming Downunder
Answer: 401a
201b is back dive pike, 401b is inward dive pike and 501c isn't a real dive.
From Quiz: Diving
Answer: 1952
Due to the sports increase in popularity, it was displayed as a demonstration sport in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics but was not yet given full medal status.
From Quiz: Sport of Synchronized Swimming
Answer: Australia
Married to Russian swimmer, and moved to live in Australia.
From Quiz: Swimming
Answer: United States
van Dyken shocked the world when she became the most decorated American woman of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics with her four golds. She won the 50m freestyle in a huge upset over world record holder (at the time) Le Jingyi, with a victory margin of only .03 second. After an impressive 4th place finish in the 100m freestyle, Amy took on the 100m butterfly and won by a margin of .01 second over Liu Limin of China. van Dyken then swam on the United States' winning relays, the women's 4x100m freestyle and the 4x100 medley. van Dyken returned to the Sydney 2000 Olympics and placed 4th behind 33-year-old teammate Dara Torres. However, Amy van Dyken won another gold in the 4x100 freestyle relay in Sydney bringing her career total to 5 golds.
From Quiz: Who Did They Swim For? Part 2
Answer: Australia
The "Thorpedo" held world records in the men's 200, 400, and 800m freestyles, which he set at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. Those times were 1:44.06, 3:40.17, and 7:39.16, respectively.
From Quiz: Who Did They Swim For? Part 1
Answer: Surface Dive
Feet First dives also are a type of dive.
From Quiz: Super Swimming
Answer: Victor Davis
This incredibly talented Canadian swimmer was the seventeen times national champion in the 100-meter breaststroke event. He was the fourteen times national champion at the 200-meter breaststroke event. He won one gold and two silver medals at the 1984 Olympics and a silver at Seoul in 1988. He was named Swimming Canada's Athlete of the Year three times, is a member of the Order of Canada and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1994.
In 1989 Davis was hit by a car and suffered a severe skull fracture. He died two days after being hit. A Victor Davis Memorial Fund was set up to help up and coming young Canadian swimmers and in 2008, thirteen recipients of the fund participated in the Summer Olympics.
From Quiz: Let's Talk About Pecs
Answer: Celebrating team members jumped into the water before all other competitors had finished
The Australian team comprised Elka Graham, Petria Thomas, Linda Mackenzie, and Giaan Rooney. Graham, Thomas and Mackenzie leaped into the water to celebrate when anchor leg swimmer Rooney touched in a winning time before all the other competitors had finished, and so were disqualified.
From Quiz: Sink or Swim
Answer: Backstroke
Backstroke is the only stroke that is performed on the swimmers back, facing towards the sky.
From Quiz: Swimming: The Basics
