In the pool. 1,500 metres for men and 800 metres for women (freestyle) 200 metres in all the other strokes (Back, breast and fly) 400 metres In the IM (Individual medley, 100m each of fly,back,breast and free in that order) Open water 10 kilometres ( the swimming equivalent of running a marathon )
The longest race is the 50 Km walk. The longest running race is the Marathon.
If you are referring to competition pools, then your answer is Long Course Meters. This course, used in the Olympics, FINA World Championships, and US Summer Nationals, is 50 meters long. If you are referring to longest swimming competition, it's definitely open water swimming. The longest race held in the Olympics is the 25K.
When somebody felt like swimming a race against somebody.THAT'S when.
a race that has swimming, biking and swimming, in that order in it. it is a non stop race and it is great!!!
The Coca-Cola 600 is currently the longest sanctioned Nascar race.
a butterfly race is a swimming event lap race.
The English Grand National, not a flat race but it's run in the flat season, making it the longest race in the flat race season.
Swimming can't really be played. Swimming is more of a social event. You can swim for sport but its simply a timed race of a set stroke over a certain distance. E.g 50m Butterfly. Swimming is used, however, in sports such as water polo.
An arms race, an eating contest, a swimming race (the race is finished when a swimmer touches the wall, so they don't pass anything in order to finish).
The Great Serum Race
It was in Japan.