Sports General Knowledge – Swimming Objective Questions

A: Swimming is a water-based sport where a person propels their body through the water using strokes with their arms and kicks with their legs, moving progressively through the water.

A:
Length: 50 m (160 ft),
Width: 25 m (82 ft),
Lanes labeling: 0 to 9 or 1 to 10,
Lanes width: 2.5 m (8.2 ft),
Depth of pool: At least 2 m.

A: Benefits of swimming are:
– It improves the cardiovascular system,
– It provides minimal stress on joints,
– It engages major muscle groups hence leads to flexible muscular system,

A: Swimming helps improve the cardiovascular system by increasing heart rate and promoting cardiovascular endurance.

A: Men’s swimming was included in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

A: Diving events were added to the Olympic Games in 1904.

A: Women’s swimming competitions were officially recognized in the Olympic Games in 1912.

A: The National Swimming Association of India was founded in 1949.

A: Swimming was included as one of the six sports at the First Asian Games held in Delhi in 1951.

A: Richmond Cavill introduced freestyle to the western world in 1902.

A: 1908.

A: As this made athletes more buoyant and so it was banned.

A: Open water swimming of 10 km was added as an event in the Olympics in 2005 and the first professional race in the Olympics happened in the 2008 Olympic games held in Beijing.

A: There are four competitive strokes in swimming. The four competitive strokes in swimming are
– Front Crawl (also known as Freestyle),
– Back Crawl,
– Breaststroke, and
– Butterfly stroke.

A: Yes, these four strokes are followed in swimming competitions worldwide.

A: 50 meters.

A: Dolphin style is a tactic to maximize the speed at the start and after turns in swimming. Increases the speed to a very good extent that previously swimmers has created world record using this technique.

A: Referee.

A: Referee.

A: Swimmers to jump into the water.

A: Starter.

A: Starter.

A: Clerk of course.

A: Each lane has a timekeeper assigned to it who takes care of noting down the timing of swimmers.

A: No as they have automatic timing and video placing equipment, so timekeepers may not be required.

A: Inspector of turns are responsible for ensuring that swimmers comply with the rules of turning, of start and of finish of the race.
In case of any violation he shares it with the chief inspector of turns who further conveys it to the referee.

A: Judges of stroke follow swimmers back and forth across the pool during the event to make sure that relevant rules related to the style of swimming are followed.
Judges of stroke also assists the inspector of turns by observing turns and finish of the game.

A: The order of finish has been determined by the “Finish Judges”.

A. Referee.

A: Yes in case of disqualification the players do have the right to protest.

A: By a panel of officials instead of referee or stroke judges.

A:
For men: Suits should not go above navel or below knee,
For women: Suits should not extend past the shoulders or cover their neck.

A: World Aquatics (renamed in Jan-2023) and it is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

A: World Aquatics.

A: It is the practice of reducing exercise before the competition to give rest to the swimmer’s body.

A: Tapering we have already discussed in above questions, shave is the practice of removing all the exposed hair from the body to reduce drag while swimming and giving more hydrodynamic feel in the water, hence giving advantage of milliseconds in final timing.

A: No, because the number of turns may act as advantageous or disadvantageous for swimmers to have more or less turns in a race.

A: Due to the waves created in the pool by the swimmers while swimming it is advantageous to swim close to the center of the pool.

A: To reduce drag while swimming and improve their timing even though it will just by small fraction, they even take care of hairs on their skin as well as that can lead to improvement in their final timings.

A: There are several benefits of wearing goggles:
It keeps the water and chlorine out of swimmers eyes,
If there are chances of glares then glasses can be made tinted,
For swimmers who have power lenses they can have their goggles made accordingly.

A: Drag suits are used by swimmers during training to increase resistance as a result improving their performance by practicing in difficult situations.

A: Old suits, t-shirts, bathing suits etc.

A: It helps improve the swimmers overall performance by reducing drag.

A: Using drag suits leads to depletion of energy and muscle fatigue in comparatively lesser time, as a result swimmers try to engage another group of muscle and that leads to drop in stroke efficiency.

A: To support the weight of the upper body while swimmers focus on kicking that helps in increasing leg muscle and strength.

A: It supports swimmers legs and prevents them from kicking, while swimmers focus on pulling.

A: Medley relay is a type of competition in which 4 swimmers participate from a team and each one swims in a different style in order of backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle.

A: Open water swimming happens in open water bodies like lake or sea, which are typically of 5 km, 10 km or 25 km length for both men and women.

A: In the individual medley event a swimmer swims equal distances of each of the 4 styles one by one i.e. butterfly > backstroke > breaststroke > freestyle. For e.g. if the race is of 200 m then swimming 50 m in butterfly style then 50 m in backstroke and so on.

A: In swimming sometimes swimmers face injuries around shoulders or knees called as tendinitis in which tendon disorder happens that leads to pain and swelling around those parts.

A: Polyester.