both of the events include the strokes: butterfly, backstroke, breastroke, and freestyle. thought the order of the strokes is different in the individual medley the order of the strokes is: fly, back, breast, free in the medley relay the order of the strokes is: back, breast, fly, free
It stands for individual medley because it has all four strokes. There for its a medley
IM is most commonly known as "Instant Message.""IM" is short for Individual Medley, where the swimmer does all four strokes, butterfly, breast, back, and freestyle. I'm not certain about the order of the strokes.
In swimming the breaststroke, butterfly, and individual medley events require touch turns
In the individual medley it's fly, back, breast, free. But in medley relay it's back, breast, fly, free It's different in the relay because backstroke has to start a the medley relay, there's no such thing as a '4X2L Backstoke relay, it's imposable.
freestyle: snicff backstoke: nakoce butterfly: buttarfli breaststroke: brstsko
in individual medley (IM) the order of strokes is fly (butterfly) back (stroke), breast (stroke), and free (front crawl) In a relay it's fly, breast, back free
Individual medley consists of a single swimmer swimming equal distances of four different strokes within one race.Individual medley consists of a single swimmer swimming equal distances of four different strokes within one race.
Butterfly Freestyle Medley (all strokes)
Individual Medley. That is when the swimmer swims butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle in that order in a certain amount depending on the event.
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
slowest strokes in order slowest first) are breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly then freestyle