A heat in swimming is like a group of swimmers swimming the same event. Since only a certain number of swimmers can swim at a time (depending on the number of lanes, usually 8) they have to have swim at different times and usually they place heats on how fast they swim. So, if you have the fastest time going into the race then you'd be in the last heat and if you have the slowest time going into the race then you'd be in the first heat. Also they place you in lanes from slowest to fastest (if you have the fastest time you go in the 4th lane and slowest goes in the outer lanes). Hope this helps. Source: Many years of competitive swimming
Changing Lanes - 2010 Competition Heats Up was released on: USA: 29 September 2010
when people swimming lanes divided by lane lines
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The fastest runners get the middle lanes (3,4,5,6), and the slower runners get the inside and outside lanes (1,2,7,8, and sometimes 9). There is sometimes a random draw involved, but that will still involve fast runners in the middle lanes. The seed times determine who goes where in the first round. A seed time is usually the qualifying time for the meet, or the best time so far that year. After the first round of heats, the times from that round are used to determine who goes in which lanes for the next round.
it is 6' long and there are 12 lanes. LOL
The definition of an Olympic size swimming pool is 10 lanes each 2.5 meters wide, however to prevent the outside lanes being disadvantaged by having to compete with the waves bouncing off the sides of the pool only the middle 8 lanes are ever used.
8 or 6
Competitive swimming pools widely vary in width. The width (in feet) changes depending on how many lanes it has. Most competitive pools have either six, eight, or ten lanes. An official Olympic sized swimming pool is 50 meters by 25 meters. It is ten lanes wide.
There are many different kinds. The most common is 6 lanes. There are also a lot of 8 lane pools.
An Olympic swimming pool usually has 8 lanes, but sometimes has up to 16.