swimming, João Manoel Xavier 9E

SWIMMING

          Swimming is an individual or team sport and activity. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports. In addition to these individual events, Olympic swimmers also participate in relays. Swimmers can also compete in open-water events.

          Swimming emerged as a competitive recreational activity in the 1830s in England. In 1828, the first indoor swimming pool, St George's Baths was opened to the public.Competitive swimming became popular in the 19th century. The goal of competitive swimming is to break personal or world records while beating competitors in any given event. Swimming in competition should create the least resistance in order to obtain maximum speed. However, some professional swimmers who do not hold a national or world ranking are considered the best in regard to their technical skills. Typically, an athlete goes through a cycle of training in which the body is overloaded with work in the beginning and middle segments of the cycle, and then the workload is decreased in the final stage as the swimmer approaches competition.

          swim styles:

• Butterfly
• backstroke
• breaststroke
• freestyle

athletes

          Michael Phelps

     Is an American competitive swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals, Olympic gold medals in individual events. In winning eight gold medals at 2008

      medals:

 23 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 2 bronze medals

              Katie Ledecky

      Is an American competitive swimmer. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, and nine-time world champion. She is the current world-record, holder in the women's 400-, 800-, and 1,500-meter freestyle (long course). She also holds the fastest times in the 500-, 800-, 1000-, and 1,650-yard freestyle events.

     medals:

4 gold medals and 1 silver medals

João Manoel Xavier 9E