the 1st olympic swimming pool was in 1899.
Swimming pool sports started from Britain around 1830, but first swimming pools games started in Olympic in 1896.
NEWZELAND
1956
swiiming became an olympic sport in 1896
1896 (first Olympics)
the first aboriginal Australian to participate in the olympic games was Kevin coombes in 1960, but he was a paralympian. (:
Women first started swimming in the Olympics in 1912.
In the modern Olympics, that was 1896.
The concept of the Olympic games began in Greece, and therefore Greece can be considered the first country to participate in the games.
Women were allowed to complete in Olympic swimming starting in 1912. That year, the Australian swimmer Fanny Durack, became the first female to win olympic gold in 100-yard freestyle swimming.
I heerd it was swimming