What are the categories of swimming?
The 5 most common types of swimming include freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and sidestroke.
What does ASA Swimming stand for?
Amateur Swimming Association
The Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has been rebranded Swim England as part of a four-year strategy to strengthen the sport and boost participation.
What is the role of British swimming?
British Swimming is the national governing body for Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Open Water in Great Britain. It is responsible internationally for the high performance representation of the sport.
What is a good 100 meter swim time?
Swim times vary according to age and ability. In general, average lap swimmers in a 100 m pool comfortably complete a 100 m swim in two minutes. A swimmer who has an easy interval time of two minutes would consider a 100 m time of one minute 30 seconds very good.
What are the 4 main styles of swimming?
Learning the four swimming strokes comes after you have mastered the basic skills of swimming. If you have reached this point then we have collated some tips below to help you learn the four swimming strokes: front crawl, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly.
Is Swim England the same as Asa?
In 2018 the ASA Awarding Body rebranded to Swim England Qualifications. This change meant that all the qualifications they owned changed from starting with ASA to SEQ.
What does Fina stand for in swimming?
Federation Internationale de Natation
The Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) is the world governing body for aquatic sports such as swimming, diving, waterpolo, synchronised and open water swimming.
Where is British Swimming based?
Loughborough
British Swimming is the national governing body of swimming, water polo, synchronised swimming, diving and open water in Great Britain….British Swimming.
| Headquarters | SportPark |
| Location | 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF |
| Chairman | Maurice Watkins |
| CEO | Jack Buckner |
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Which swimming style is the fastest?
Front Crawl/Freestyle
Front Crawl/Freestyle Front Crawl is also known as freestyle, as it is the most used stroke in freestyle events. This is because it is the fastest and most efficient of all the strokes.
Where can I find results for British Swimming?
The Rankings, Records and Results section is your one stop shop for all kinds of stats on our athletes and our sports. Find both current and historical rankings data for all British swimmers and access all of the latest British records for both Swimming and Para-Swimming within this section.
Is there a club version of Swim England?
Club Rankings SPORTSYSTEMS in cooperation with Swim England has developed a free club version of the British Rankings software for club use. This system has all the advantages of the British system with the additional ability to include non licensed meets. The software works on Microsoft Windows.
How many long course swims are there in the world?
There are 19,334,873 times in our database. 5,036,228 Long Course and 14,298,645 Short Course. Event Rankings shows the ranked position of swims. Individual Best Times will show fastest times for the last 12 Months or All Time results from all results including Level X.
How can I renew my Swim England membership?
If you are a member of a Swim England or Swim Wales club and have a membership query please contact [email protected] . To update your contact details, website visibility or data protection choices log on to the Swim England & Swim Wales Online Membership System. Scottish members need to use the Scottish Membership System.