What was the first swimming stroke?

Answer 1

In 1873, John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming ...Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. ... Butterfly was developed in the 1930s and was at first a variant of breaststroke, until it was .... and some Pacific islands for generations, but was not known tothe British.

Answer 2

The first stroke was a variation of the modern freestyle that you can see now on television or at the Olympics. The freestyle was the first used competitively out of the four used today in competition.

Answer 3

There are four competitive strokes:

Freestyle

Breastroke

Backstroke

Butterfly

• Butterfly
  • Breast Stroke
• Crawl
• Front or Back
• Sidestroke
• • Trudgen
• • Freestyle
• • Backstroke
• • Dog Paddle

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Answer 4

The breast stroke-- from the Stone Ages. Example of this stroke pictured in Caves near Wadi Sora in SW part of Egypt near Libya.

Answer 5

There are 4 different strokes in swimming:

Breastroke

Backstroke

Butterfly

Frontcrawl (often called Freestyle)

Answer 6

crawl

Answer 7

back stroke