Did you know...?
- The first Polish national swimming championships took place in Warsaw in 1929
- During one hour of swimming you burn about 250 kcal
- In 1875 La Manche channel was crossed for the first time by the swimmer Capt. Matthew Webb
- The oldest swimming club is Upsala Simsällskap founded in 1796 in Uppsala, Sweden.
- The championship class swimmer reaches a speed 11km / h. on short distance
- The density of water in the Dead Sea is so high that a man using only the buoyancy force is able to balance their weight
- The Baikal Lake contains 1/5 of the whole of sweet water on Earth
- The Earth is the only planet in our solar system where water occurs in all three states - liquid (most of it), solid and gas.
- The size of an Olympic swimming pool is 50x25m – 10 tracks of 2,5 meters width, the depth is 2m
- The first official swimming competition took place in Japan in 35 B.C
- Michael Phelbs, an American swimmer, won in Olympics in 2004 a record number of medals accounting to 8
- Swimming has been a modern olympic dyscipline since its beginning in 1896r.
- The World’s championships in swimming have been organized since 1973.
- The water temperature during competitions is between 25°C and 28°C.
- Ruolin Chen, a diver, was the shortest participant in Bejing Olympics with only 136 cm hight.
- The swimmers wearing Speedo LZR Racer suits (the new “shark skin” version) beat 47 of 51 World records in 2008
- The longest recreational pool is over 1 km long.
- The deepest pool is 33 meter deep.
- The World record for swimming without the breath held is 4:02
- The fastest fish in the World is Swordfish with the maximum speed of 133 km/h
