India first participated in swimming at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles. Nalin Malik was the first Indian athlete to compete in swimming, competing in men's 400 meter freestyle and 1500 meter freestyle.
the 1st olympic swimming pool was in 1899.
NEWZELAND
1956
Swimming pool sports started from Britain around 1830, but first swimming pools games started in Olympic in 1896.
swiiming became an olympic sport in 1896
the first aboriginal Australian to participate in the olympic games was Kevin coombes in 1960, but he was a paralympian. (:
1896 (first Olympics)
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.
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