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
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Olympic GamesParis 2024
Commonwealth GamesBirmingham 2022
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Olympic GamesTokyo 2020
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Commonwealth GamesGold Coast 2018
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Olympic GamesRio 2016
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Commonwealth GamesGlasgow 2014
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Olympic GamesLondon 2012
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