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Men’s 100 Meter Freestyle
Swimming is governed by FINA (Federation Internationale de Natation)
Olympic swimming uses four basic swimming styles or strokes. Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly (or all four within one race - that is called the IM or individual medley).
There are 16 swimming pool events for men and women swimmers in the modern Olympic Games.
Background Information
History
Alfréd Hajós, Hungary - the First Olympic Champion in swimming
In 1896 the Olympics had four swimming events for men only:
100 meter 500 meter 1200 meter freestyle The sailors 100 meter
freestyle. Alfréd Hajós of Hungary
won the 100 meter and 1200 meter events.
Olympic size pool is 50m100 meters (328.1ft) = 2 laps in an Olympic size pool or 4 in a regular size pool
Lap - from one side to the other.
Facts
Olympic Size Pool Layout
In the Olympics, the freestyle events can be swam with whichever stroke the participant prefers, but all use the crawl stroke, which is what we regard as the freestyle stroke, because it is the fastest stroke.
Freestyle
Freestyle Form
KickingArm stroke
◦ Push – Drag ◦‘S’ shape
Breathing
World Record is 47.05 seconds set by Eamon Sullivan of Australia in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 13, 2008 during the first leg of the 4x100 relay race. He only received Silver during the 100m Freestyle sprint.
Alain Bernard of France received Gold with a time of 47.21
Facts
Sprint training adds the anaerobic fitness base to the aerobic base you have developed with your endurance training. It works on the two anaerobic energy systems: the creatine phosphate energy system and the lactate energy system.
Training involves short, fast repeats with good rest intervals to ensure you can overload both these energy systems. The additional benefit of sprint training is muscle adaptation to the speed type exercise, as well as the aerobic benefits trained earlier. Working the fast twitch muscle fibers will increase their number and size in a given muscle as well as the speed of excitation.
Sprint Training
To optimize strength and power, competitive swimmers need to supplement their pool training with land based training in the gym. For best effect, the program of strength training exercises should replicate the actions in the water as closely as possible.
Strength Training
Cable rotational front, back & rear arm pulls
Medicine ball single arm overhead throw
Swiss ball body pulls
Upper Body Exercises
Barbell Squat Jumps
Lower Body ExercisesHip Extension Hip Flexion
Set a Goal. The number of hours spent in the pool is an
ingredient of swimming success, but also a shorter, race-pace-specific program of exercises performed away from the pool will improve swimming performance.
Have Fun!
Summary
Athletic Scholarships. 2010 http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-swimming.htm
Mat Luebbers. “Illustrated History of Olympic Swimming”. About.com Guide, 2010. http://swimming.about.com/od/swimmingolympics/ss/swim_hist_pics.htm
Mat Luebbers. “Olympic Swimming Rules - Freestyle and Backstroke in Olympic.” About.com Guide, 2010. Swimminghttp://swimming.about.com/od/swimmingolympics/a/olympicswimbasi.htm
Telegraph. “Michael Phelps is great, but not the greatest Olympian.” 14 Aug 2008. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2560409/Michael-Phelps-is-great-but-not-the-greatest-Olympian-Olympics.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_100_metres_world_record_progression ESPN. “2008 Summer Olympics Results – Swimming”. 2010.
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/results?eventId=320 Vision Forum – Afghanistan. 26 Aug 2010.
http://visionforumafghanistan.blogspot.com/2010/08/olympic-size-swimming-pool.html
Sports Coach. “Strength Training.” 1 January 1997. 8 Sept 2010. http://www.brianmac.co.uk/swimming/swimplan.htm
BioForce. http://www.fitnessquest.com/images/BioForceExercise.pdf
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