Swimming

About Swimming

At the Olympic Games, swimming events are held in a pool measuring 50 metres in length. The four strokes of Olympic swimming events—for both individual and relay races—are breaststroke, butterfly, backstroke and front crawl; the front crawl is predominantly used in freestyle races, and as such the term freestyle is often used as a synonym for front crawl.
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Olympic Games
No. of athletes
121
No. of games
22
First appearance
1912
Commonwealth Games
No. of athletes
203
No. of games
22
First appearance
1930