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in individual medley or IM is when one swimmer does all four of the competative stroaks. for example, a 100 yard IM (assuming that the pool is 25 yards) would be one length butterfly, one length back, one length brest stroak and one length free style. always in that order. hope that helps in your next swim meet :-D
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∙ 11y agoAn individual medley (or IM for short) consists of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and frontcrawl in that order. This is an individual event so only one swimmer does all four strokes. IM's can be 100m (1 length of a 25m pool each) 200m (2 lengths each) or 400m (4 lengths each).
A medley relay on the other hand is comprised of four swimmers swimming one stroke each one after each other. However, in a medley relay the order of the strokes is different. This order is: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, frontcrawl.
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