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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 due to the importance of timing and the coordination required to move the legs properly.
This is a listing of the history of the World Record in the 100 breaststroke swimming event.. The first world record in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognized by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1961, while the women's world record times were officially acknowledged in 1958.
In the mid-1930s, many breaststroke swimmers began practicing an early variant of the butterfly stroke that involved recovering the arms above the water in an effort to reduce drag. This technique was disallowed when the butterfly stroke was established as a distinct stroke with its own rules in 1953, and world records set using the technique ...
100m breaststroke: 1:02.36 = Rūta Meilutytė Lithuania: 12 October 2013: World Cup: Moscow, Russia [160] 100m breaststroke: 1:02.36 = Alia Atkinson Jamaica 6 December 2014: World Championships: Doha, Qatar [161] [162] 100m breaststroke: 1:02.36 = Alia Atkinson Jamaica 26 August 2016: World Cup: Chartres, France [163] 200m breaststroke: 2:12.50 ...
breaststroke: American Record (50 m) U.S. Open Record (50 m) 50 breast: 26.45 Nic Fink (USA) 2022 World Championships June 21, 2022 / Budapest, Hungary: 26.52 [7] Michael Andrew (MA Swim Academy) 2022 USA International Team Trials April 28, 2022 / Greensboro, North Carolina: 100 breast: 58.14 [8] Michael Andrew (Race Pace Club) 2020 US Olympic ...
Lilly King of the United States won the Olympic gold medal in the women's 100 meters breaststroke on Monday.
Graphic data for World Record Progression in Men and Women Swimming 50m-100m-200m Long and Short Course Butterfly-Backstroke-Breaststroke-Freestyle Main article: List of world records in swimming World records in the 50-metre breaststroke competitive swimming event are recorded for men and women in 50-metre pools ( long course ) and 25-metre ...
King had already qualified for her third games with a first-place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke on Monday, but had a chance to make history with the 200-meter race. A first- or second-place ...