Breaststroke
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Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a larg
Michael Phelps swimming breaststroke at the 2008 Missouri Grand Prix.
Breaststroke by Katie Hoff at 2008 Missouri Grand Prix.
Women's breaststroke at Alsterschwimmhalle during the 2007 German Collegiate Championship
200 meter breaststroke winners at the 2001 Santa Clara Invitational.
Competitive swimming
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Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water. Competitive swimming is one of the most p
Breaststroke
…slowest of any competitive strokes and is thought to be the oldest of all swimming strokes. Breaststroke is the slowest of the four official styles in competitive swimming. The fastest breaststrokers can swim about 1.70 meters (~5.6 feet) per second. It is sometimes the hardest to teach to rising swimmers after butterfly…
Start of the 4 × 100 meters men's relay during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Leander swimming across the Hellespont. Detail from a painting by Bernard Picart.
The routes taken by Webb and T.W. Burgess across the English Channel, in 1875 and 1911, respectively.
Katie Ledecky set the Olympic records in 2016 for the 400m and 800m freestyle.