Interesting Swimming Facts.

Here are a few of our favourite interesting swimming facts.

Olympic Swimming Used To Be For Men Only.

Swimming has been an Olympic sport since 1896 but it wasn’t until 1912 that women started to participate in this competitive sport, at the Olympics.

Hair Creates Friction in Water.

That is why professional swimmers shave their hair or wear swim caps. It creates less friction, which allows them to move faster!

Swimming Gives You a Full Body Workout.

Not only does swimming burn calories, but it also improves flexibility, strengthens your heart and lungs and strengthens all your major muscles.

The Most Popular Stroke is the Crawl.

The crawl is the stroke of choice for freestyle competitions and triathlons!

That is because the front crawl is the fastest swimming stroke.

Olympic sized pools have enough water to take 9,400 baths.

Olympic pools contain 660,000 gallons of water and baths contain 70.

Breaststroke is the oldest stroke.

It was created along with competitive swimming around 1830 in Britain.

The Titanic was the first cruise ship with a swimming pool.

Over half of all swimmers develop shoulder problems.
This is normally because of a cross-over stroke in freestyle.

The first goggles were made from tortoise shells in the 1300’s.
Rubber goggles weren’t created until the 1930’s.

Swimming burns more calories than running or biking.
Biking burns around 483 an hour, and running burns 557. Swimming at a faster rate can burn up to 784 calories in a single hour.

Marco Polo is the most popular swimming pool game.