Swimming

Swimming is a water sports where the swimmer itself by means of arm and leg movements moving in the water. One distinguishes recreational swimming and competitive swimming. There are different strokes with which one moves: front crawl, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. Swimming is seen as a very healthy form of recreation and exercise. This partly because almost all muscles of the body, because the body used and worn by the water and there is no hard punch moves are, the joints not so heavy loads like running, which makes the chances of small injuries . This feature makes swimming also suitable for people with overweight(fors), as they are at swimming, unlike many other sports, not affected by their body weight. The physical therapy makes grateful use of the properties of water to facilitate therapeutic physical exercises.

Swimming can be taught at an early age. Many parents take infants and small children all along to go swimming in a pool or recreational Lake. There is also baby swimmingand toddler swimming for the youngest children. Then children often go to swimming lessons.

Usually, the motor skills of a child around the 6th or 7th year of life sufficiently developed. In Netherlands is the school swimming, swimming lessons in a school group, often required. A pupil can get different swimming certificate's, in which an increasingly longer distance, new swimming strokes, swimming rescue diving and additional parts are.Netherlands has one of the highest proportions of people who can swim, which is learned this at a relatively young age.

Training for competitive swimming is given at swimming associations. A freestyle swimmer will often train for a year or ten on technique, speed, power and stamina before international good results.

Competition swimming: the European LC Championships 2006 in Budapest. Pieter van den hoogenband (Ned) in court 5

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[hide] *1 Swimming culture by country  ==Swimming culture by country[ Edit] == ===Swimming in Netherlands[ Edit] === In Netherlands is swimming at the national sport NOC * NSF dome represented by the KNZB, who in turn represented by so-called circles. Under this bond fall all swimming sports.
 * 1.1 swimming in Netherlands
 * 1.2 swimming in Belgium
 * 2 swimming technique and infrastructure
 * 2.1 sports
 * 2.2 swimming technique
 * 2.3 Basic forms of competitive swimming
 * 3 Swimming Championships
 * 3.1 national matches
 * 3.1.1 National Junior Championships
 * 3.1.2 National age group competitions
 * 3.2 National swimming records
 * 3.3 main international swimming tournaments
 * 3.3.1 Long course (50 metres)
 * 3.3.2 short course (25 metres)
 * 3.4 International swimmers
 * 3.5 International swimming records
 * 3.6 Limits for various Championships
 * 4 from the swimming derived and related sports
 * 5 see also
 * 6 external links

On the waves of the euphoria of the Dutch swimming successes at the Olympic Games of Sydney (2000) created three professional teams: in Eindhoven the Philips-swimming team of trainer-coach Jacco Verhaeren and Marleen Veldhuisfigurehead, Deputy Chairman Amsterdam (TZA) under the guidance of trainer-coach Fedor Hesand the Deputy Chairman West-Netherlands (TWN) in Dordrecht by trainer-coach Dick Bergsma.

After the somewhat disappointing Olympic Games of Athens (2004) decision the TZA-leadership not to renew the contract with Hes, after which this himself with his swimmers, including Marleen Veldhuis and Thijs villena, splitting off and a private team begins: Team Hes. Deputy Amsterdam persists with as trainer Martin Truijens. The two teams both in the Sloterparkbad swimming in Amsterdam. Team Hes takes place after a time a sponsor, Iam_soyluege. This remains some time connected to the team, but in april 2006 Iam_soyluege keeps on with the sponsor. The team is now going further once again without a sponsor.

Meanwhile, working together with Jacco Verhaeren the KNZB a whole new top sport structure. He wants two top sports centres in Netherlands (NZA), one in Amsterdam and one in Eindhoven (NZE). The structure comes from the ground and early 2009 are both centers officially started.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the meantime there have been quite a few shifts of swimmers. Marleen Veldhuis choose in August 2006 for order at UR swimming and leaves the Swimteam of Hes.Inge Dekker has also already decided at Verhaeren working out. After Dekker and Veldhuis choose one more number of swimmers for Eindhoven. At the start of NZA be appointed both Hes like Truijens trainer. However, this is but a short time and already in January Hes saying goodbye to the NZA and bond work.

<p lang="en" len="207" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The swimmers who swim at NZA are:

<p lang="en" len="207" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The swimmers who swim at UR are:
 * Elise Bouwens
 * Richa Bansal
 * Femke Heemskerk
 * Moniek Nijhuis
 * Joost Reijns
 * Joeri Verlinden
 * Sebastiaan Verschuren

<p len="17" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> ===Swimming in Belgium<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Current swimmers from Belgium:
 * Bram Davis
 * Inge Dekker
 * Dion Denis
 * Linsy Heister
 * Job Kienhuis
 * Ilse Kraaijeveld
 * Ranomi Kromowidjojo
 * Bastiaan Lijesen
 * Jacob Varghese
 * Marieke Nadar
 * Clarissa vidler
 * Joëlle Scheps
 * Jurjen Walker
 * Wendy van der Zanden
 * Loes Z

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Swimmers from Belgium pointed out:
 * Jasper V A
 * Louis Cardenas
 * Kimberly Buys
 * Charlie Days
 * Mathieu Fonteyn
 * Yoris Grandjean
 * François Heersbrandt
 * Kim Jackson
 * Fanny Lecluyse
 * Brian Nylah
 * Glenn Salleh
 * Pieter Tailor
 * Stijn De Klerk
 * Emmanuel Elvin

<p len="17" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> ==Swimming technique and infrastructure<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Competitive Swimming<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Competitive swimming is practiced in a 25-meter pool (short course) or a 50-metre pool (long course). At a swimming competition can, depending on the number of jobs in a swimming pool, usually five to eight participants start at the same time. The jobs are separated by floating lines, or the new stretched tight over the water lines that are specifically designed to minimize the undulation in the other jobs to get. The pool must reach the NK/EK/WK have a minimum temperature of 26 degrees Celsius. Still be starting and arrival times clocked by hand. There are also a number of pools where the times are electronically measured by means of sensors, where home plate should be tapped with the hands. Because this also sometimes goes wrong, the official backup button, and insurance is clocked by hand. There are also swimming pools in Netherlands with a semi-automatic system; This will be checked at the beginning, but the end time must be fixed by a timekeeper. The correct execution of the turning point is usually determined by a person who is on the other side of the bath is (or, the timekeeper are) but can also by means of sensors<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;">[source? ] or using underwater cameras to be controlled. At a swimming contest are always a number of officials present. ===Swimming Technique<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When swimming is the technique a very important purpose. Some of the main points are:
 * Tom Vangeneugden
 * Elise Matthysen
 * Brigitte Becue
 * Tine Bossuyt
 * Frederik Deburghgraeve
 * Stefaan Maene
 * Carine Verba Yours
 * Herman Verba Yours
 * Pascale Verba Yours

===Basic forms of competitive swimming<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="56" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In competitive swimming, the following categories for:
 * Streamline (with a stretched posture in the water)
 * Underwater phase with as much as possible, water by about 1 to 1.5 metres in the water to lie, so one can deal with the same amount of water above and below the body, and thereby move ahead faster.
 * High elbow. At the breaststroke and the front crawl one can address the most water.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the category of freestyle, the swimmer swimming what he wants and how he wants to. In practice one uses usually the front crawl because this is the fastest rate for most people. The backstroke is the only battle which may be swum on the back. In practice, here often, single backstroke backstrokeor composite backstroke swimming.
 * Freestyle
 * Butterfly
 * Backstroke
 * Breaststroke
 * Front crawl

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The usual distances are: 50, 100 and 200 metres. At the Freestyle also the 400, 800 and 1500 meters. In addition, Netherlands at the so-called also open water swim longer distances such as two, three, five and ten kilometers. There are even international marathons swum from 12 to 88 km (downstream).

<p lang="en" len="66" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to the listed basic forms, there are several variations:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the relay relay is the order of the strokes different. This is backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle to exit (the back-comes before the breaststroke because it is otherwise impossible to boot, for example, tap Start and backstroke breaststroke by another team member can not).
 * Individual Medley: 100, 200 and 400 meters, where a quarter of the distance in each of the four swimming techniques by the same swimmer is swum. The order in individual medley is Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.
 * Relay, 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 m relay: 4x50, in which four swimmers each a quarter of the distance with another make swimming stroke . The sequence is backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The stroke efficiency index is a measure of the efficiency of the swimming battle. This index is the sum of the number of swimming strokes and the length of time (in seconds) to 25 meters to go. The lower the index, the more effective the swimming battle:
 * The Olympic distances are the distances are swum at the Olympics. The non-Olympic distances are distances that do on World Championships and European Championships are made.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">An alternative form of front crawl is "total immersion swimming". This is a modified swimming stroke, where the objective is to achieve a great efficiency by minimizing the resistance. On the other hand, this competitive swimming which achieve the highest possible speed is important. Because the legs are little used, this technique is interesting for tri-athletes. ==Swimming Championships<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to club and district Championships knows the competitive swimming national, continental and World Championships, both in the long course (50 metres) as the short course (25 metres). Swimming is also a full-fledged Olympic sport, which since the very first edition (1896) on the Olympic programme. Also for people with disabilities are national, international and Olympic Swimming Championships held. ===National Matches<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Per season (running from september to June) is a large number of National Games finished. Also be in the summer season in the open water Championships. In a season there for the older swimmers (boys from the age of 18, girls from the age of 16) 3 National Championships in the bath. There is a short course (25 m pool) NK, which is usually held in december, a long course (50 m pool) NK, usually held in June, but sometimes is placed forward and a NK sprint, late June or early July in which only the shortest distances are swum in a 25 m bath. To take part to a NK, limits must be met. Once a swimmer criteria, he or she shall be entitled to participate. During the national championships are swum away to achieve medals each in the following categories:
 * < 30: excellent
 * 30-40: very good
 * 40-50: better than average
 * 50-70: average swimmer
 * > 70: worse than average

<p lang="en" len="112" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are also medals to be gained during the relays, which is fought against each other in club. ====National Junior Championships<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The younger swimmers, the so-called Juniors, compete against each other for the national championship in other competitions, the National Junior Championships (NJK). Of this is also a long and a short course variant.The swimmers compete here only against swimmers who were born in the same year as herself. The categories are:
 * Men's Seniors
 * Women's Seniors
 * Men's youth (17 and 18 years)
 * Ladies youth (15 and 16)

<p lang="en" len="136" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also fights these swimmers during the NK sprint, that on another weekend, usually the weekend after the NJK langebaan, is held.
 * Women Juniors 1 (11 and 12 years, this category has only added to the January 2007 NJK)
 * Women Juniors 2 (13 years)
 * Women Juniors 3 (14 years)
 * Men Juniors 1 (13 years)
 * Men Juniors 2 (14 years)
 * Men Juniors 3 (15 years)
 * Men Juniors 4 (16 years)

<p lang="en" len="433" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Place of action at the long course is for example the Sloterparkbad in Amsterdam and the Tongelreep in Eindhoven, while the NJK 2009 short course in Dordrecht is held and the NK sprint 2009 in Alkmaar is held. ====National Age Group Competitions<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The national age group finals are held at the end of the swimming season. The youngest swimmers swim there to the unofficial national championship in their age group. It is not an official NK, because the KNZB there is no support to it. The contest is held in Dordrecht and is swum in 50 m bath. In January/February are also always in Lead age group competitions, what is considered the unofficial Championship short course. There are no limits for these games, but be the best swimmers from 18 Netherlands invited. ===National swimming records<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dutch and Belgian records have a private page, more national records can be found in the category: Swimming record. ===Main international swimming tournaments<span class="mw-editsection" len="358" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Long course (50 metres)<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Short course (25 metres)<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ===International swimmers<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===International swimming records<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Limits for various Championships<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="96" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For that to be as up-to-date as possible swim times swum for some contests, see:
 * Olympic Summer Games (since 1896)
 * World Championships (since 1973)
 * European Championships (since 1926)
 * World Championships (since 1993)
 * European Championships (since 1991)
 * World Cup (since 1989)

==From swimming derived and related sports<span class="mw-editsection" len="366" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Swimming Limits
 * Open water Swimming
 * Diving
 * Synchronized Swimming
 * I Sing
 * Vrijwaterzwemmen
 * Water Basketball
 * Water polo
 * Winter Swimming
 * Swimming rescue
 * Elementary swimming