FINA

Federation International de Natation (FINA) is the International Federation (IF) recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competition in the aquatic sports (its name translated from French is "International Swimming Federation"). It is one of several IFs which administers a given sport/discipline for the IOC and/or international community. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

FINA currently oversees competition in five aquatic sports: swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming.

Members:

At the January 2010 FINA Bureau meeting, Tonga became the 202nd National Federation of FINA. Members are grouped by continent, and there are 5 continental associations of which they can choose to be a member.

• Africa (51): African Swimming Confederation (CANA)
• Americas (41): Swimming Union of the Americas (ASUA)
• Asia (43): Asian Amateur Swimming Federation (AASF)
• Europe (51): European Swimming League (LEN)
• Oceania (16): Oceania Swimming Association (OSA)

MICHAEL PHELPS:


Phelps was born and raised in Baltimore County, situated in the state of Maryland in the United States of America.

RECORDS and personal bests:
Introduced in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney as the youngest male swimmer in 15 years of age. Although it won medals at the 2000 Olympics, Phelps quickly made a name in swimming.

Five months after Sydney, Phelps improved the world record 200m butterfly and then returned to improve their own record at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (1:54,58). In the 2002 National Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Phelps also broke the world record for 400 meters and 100 meters national record and 200m butterfly.

In 2003, Phelps broke his own world record 400m medley (4:09,09) and in June, the world record 200m (1:56,04). He continued in July 2004, again improving his world record of 400m medley (4:08,41) for the Trials for the 2004 Olympics.

Phelps's dominance has led to comparisons with Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in the Olympics in 1972, a world record. Phelps won six gold medals and two bronze in 2004 after competing in eight events: 200 freestyle, 100m and 200m butterfly, 200m and 400m medley, 4x100 freestyle, 4x100 medley and 4x200 medley.

Phelps beat the world record set by Mark Spitz by winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics.

In 2010, FINA is voted best athlete of the decade in men's swimming discipline.

MARK SPITZ

MARK SPITZ

Is a american swimmer. In the 1972 Munich Olympics won seven gold medals in seven events in which he participated, the high in the same edition of the Olympic Games, plus seven world records to beat.



In the Mexico Olympics, Spitz won two gold medals (4x100 and 4x200 free relay), silver (100m butterfly) and one bronze (100m freestyle), triumphs considered somewhat disappointing, in anticipation of winning five or six gold medals.




Four years later, the results were very different ..
The gold medals were accumulated in those seven games, a record still unsurpassed. It began in the 200m butterfly, in which Spitz lowered his own world record by nearly a second (2 min 00 sec 70 cent). An hour later, led the 4x100 relay team to victory, with a new world record. The next day he returned to the pool to win his third gold medal and beat his third world record, this time in the 200 freestyle (1 min 52 sec 78 cent). Two days later smashed two world records in the 100m butterfly (54 sec 27cent) and the 4x200 free relay.

Modalities of swimming: 4. Freestyle or free

Modalities of swimming:

4. Freestyle or free:


In this style, one arm the swimmer moves through the air with your palm facing down ready to enter the water, and elbow relaxed, while the other arm moves under water. The legs move according to what in recent years has evolved as a kick oscillating reciprocating hips up and down with your legs relaxed, feet and toes inward tip. For each complete cycle of the arms are held from two to eight kicks swing. This style is very important to breathe properly. It may take a full breath for each cycle of arms, inhaling through the mouth to turn his head to one side when you move the arm and then exhaling under water when the arm moves back.

Freestyle or free technique:

Modalities of swimming: 3. Breaststroke

Modalities of swimming:

3. Breaststroke :

In this style, the swimmer floats face down, arms pointing forward, palms around, and executes the following sequence of horizontal movements: open arms back to be in line with your shoulder, always above or below the water surface. They shrink the legs to bring them closer to the body, knees and toes out, and stretched with a pulse while the arms back to the point
departure time which starts the cycle again. The swimmer breathes underwater. The strokes must be lateral, not vertical.

Breaststroke technique:

Modalities of swimming: 2.Backstroke

Modalities of swimming:

2.Backstroke :

In the sport of swimming back is one of the four official styles for a long time and even call in many texts and still called "crawl despaldas" because it is an adaptation for swimming crawl despaldas, or vice versa.
It is characterized mainly by being despaldas and a reciprocating motion of the arms and legs (the movement of the legs in back is called back or shake shake dorsal), and by the peculiar shoulder movement that takes place during the swimming.
In the specialty sporting competition back style is the third fastest, very close to the butterfly, which is the second, but distant from the breaststroke which is the fourth. It competes at the world championships at distances of 50, 100 and 200 meters. Also nothing in second place in the 200 and 400 individual medley and first in the relay events of styles.

Backstroke technique: