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	Breaststroker's Web Page, The definitive site dedicated to competition Breaststroke articles, training and coaching.
		Breaststroker's Web Page, The definitive site dedicated to competition Breaststroke articles, training and coaching.
		Wayne McCauley is the author of numerous articles about swimming and competition Breaststroke.
		Breaststroke article for "Swim Technique" Magazine October-December 2001 issue.
	www.breaststroke.info (329 words)

	Rickard out to beat world breaststroke champion - Sport - theage.com.au
		AUSTRALIAN breaststroke champion Brenton Rickard has said that the performances of the world's undisputed benchmark, Brendan Hansen, were not so intimidating and that the American could be toppled at the Beijing Olympics.
		Hansen's times in the 100 and 200 metres breaststroke events are streets ahead of the competition and the world record-holder says there is still room for improvement.
		Rickard said he was confident that with some fine tuning he was ready to break one minute for the 100 breaststroke.
	www.theage.com.au /news/sport/rickard-out-to-beat-world-breaststroke-champion/2006/11/08/1162661757441.html (578 words)

	Breaststroke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Breaststroke is the slowest of the four official styles in competitive swimming.
		Butterfly arms with a breaststroke kick were used by a few swimmers in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin for the breaststroke competitions.
		Another variant of the breaststroke kick is the scissor kick, however, this kick violates the rules of the FINA as it is no longer symmetrical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Breaststroke (3261 words)

	Chinese swimming calls for more women breaststroke talents
		Though triple world champion Luo Xuejuan breezed to win the women's 100 meters breaststroke in a world class result at the fifth Chinese City Games, her coach Zhang Yadong called Wednesday for more high level swimmers in the event.
		Luo, winner in the 50m, 100m breaststroke and 4x100m medley relay at the Barcelona World Championships in July, clocked one minute 07.42 to take her first gold at the City Games, 0.62 seconds shy of her winning time but same as the silver medal clocking at the worlds.
		Qi Hui, women's 200m breaststroke world record holder and bronze at the worlds, came to second in 1:08.89 and Wu Binan third in 1"As Luo and Qi are considered the ones most likely to win golds for China at the Athens Olympic Games next year, Zhang said that there is no strong backups behind them.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-10/22/content_274571.htm (345 words)

	freestyle vs breaststroke which is better?
		Breaststroke will help if you merely need to get some yardage in, but in the long term its not going to serve you well.
		Breaststroke is good for sighting, so for me it's good to practice it a bit.
		Do some breaststroke in at least some of your workouts (there are some benefits of not just swimming freestyle in workouts) and it can always be a backup/rest stroke during a race.
	www.beginnertriathlete.com /discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=69878 (1521 words)

	beRecruited.com: About Breaststroke (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Breaststroke is the slowest of the three official styles in competitive swimming.
		Breaststroke is swum on the breast, with the arms and legs under water (almost) all the time, and the body often at a steep angle to the forward movement.
		There are three common distances swum in competitive breaststroke swimming, both over either a long course (50m pool) or a short course (25m pool).
	www.berecruited.com /news/swimming-breaststroke.html (1839 words)

	Diagnosing and Estimating the Best Breaststroke Style for each Swimmer Based on Physical Characteristics (K.U.LEUVEN) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Visualisation of the joint positions achieved during the flexibility measurements for subjects at the 25% and 75% percentile (situated in percentile scales of the total reference population of 267 women and 307 men: swimmers of at least national level in one stroke in the age group).
		These relative shortcomings can be explained by the fact that breaststrokers have to rotate the feet outwards to propel, according to the rules (and not inwards as in the other strokes), and that they do not use the finishing ‘arm-push’ action (as in the other strokes).
		If this breaststroke specialist would have been biologically mature (16 years), she should primarily train strength-endurance and explosive strength (C, central square); indeed, her best distance is 200 to 100m and most of her strength scores are below the mean of swimmers at international level.
	www.coachesinfo.com /category/swimming/339 (3248 words)

	Swim Magazine: The Modern Breaststroke, Tips to Improve Your Stroke, September 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Breaststroke is in a state of change, with many Masters swimmers are in the process of converting from the conventional or flat style to the wave style of breaststroke.
		The base position for the breaststroke should be with body flat in the water and streamlined.
		The breaststroke race is not only about the stroke itself, the start and turn must also be executed properly.
	www.swimmingworldmagazine.com /articles/swimmagazine/articles/199509-03swim_art.asp (1150 words)

	TeenBodybuilding.com - Jeff Galterio - Cardio Series: Swimming - The Breaststroke!
		The elbows coming together forces the hands to move quickly from the insweep to the recovery; many breaststrokers have a problem with pausing at that point.
		Breaststrokers must pull often in practice, while others are pulling freestyle.
		Overlap timing is used by most fast breaststrokers to reduce the period of slowing down from the kick and the insweep of the arms.
	www.teenbodybuilding.com /jeff7.htm (1286 words)

	Breaststroke - SwimClub.co.uk Forums (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Breaststroke is difficult in a couple of respects: firstly it is very timing-dependent.
		The other hindrance to an effective breaststroke is bringing the knees wide during the kick.
		Although I'd never swum much breaststroke in the past, as part of my ASA Level 2 Teacher's course I ended up playing the role of an adult learner in the water.
	www.swimclub.co.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=3773 (1722 words)

	Re-thinking Sprint Breaststroke
		Breaststrokers cut their underwater timing by 1-2 seconds to maintain race speed and get to the race stroke and "power" the swim.
		There are even masters who race "special" underwater breaststroke races, remembering back to the 50’s when breaststroke was swum mostly underwater With 2 or 3 strokes between breaths in the college 200 medley relay breaststroke leg, I can see 23 flat, and sub 24 splits for the 100 breast.
		Always do sprints for breaststrokers in the first 30-40 minutes of workout, "because studies have shown that after 20-30 minutes the fast twitch muscle fibers were completely depleted of ATP-CP and slow twitch fibers use their ATP-CP more sparingly, so only slow twitch fibers are still available for work".
	members.tripod.com /~breastroker/sprint.htm (1735 words)

	Injury robs Brooke of breaststroke face-off - Sport - www.smh.com.au
		The injury to her psoas muscle, which acts to flex the hip, is aggravated by the breaststroke kick and will stop her from doing the stroke in training for at least a fortnight.
		Coach Mark Thompson said Hanson would not swim breaststroke again until her back had settled down, with her kick likely to be modified to ensure the injury does not flare again.
		In the absence of Hanson, Jones cruised into the 200m breaststroke final last night with the second fastest heat swim, backing up from her near-world record swim to win the 100m final on Friday night.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Sport/Injury-robs-Brooke-of-breaststroke-faceoff/2004/11/27/1101495458768.html?from=storylhs (641 words)

	Breaststroke
		The Breaststroke is the oldest known swimming stroke.
		It is one of four strokes used in competitive swimming, but it is also very popular for leisure swimming because the head can be kept up and out of the water, making vision and breathing easy.
		Remember the timing of the Breaststroke with the phrase, “PULL AND BREATHE, KICK AND GLIDE”.
	www.ccsf.edu /Resources/Faculty/dnagura/Breaststroke1.htm (464 words)

	Breaststroke (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Perhaps one of the most difficult strokes to master, the breaststroke requires simultaneous movements of the arms on the same horizontal plane.
		The hands are pushed forward from the breast on or under the surface of the water and brought backward in the propulsive stage of the stroke simultaneously.
		In International and USA competition, Breaststroke races are swum in 100 and 200 meter distances.
	home.stny.rr.com /cago/breaststroke.htm (170 words)

	breaststroke
		Breaststroke, also sometimes called "frog stroke," is a very traditional stroke, but also the slowest stroke, and is thus very popular with many fitness swimmers.
		The most important thing about breaststroke is to keep your body at the surface.
		For the breaststroke pull, the key is to take long pulls along with the kick.
	academic.uofs.edu /student/MALLICKS2/Breast.html (301 words)

	Breaststroke
		Observing other swimmers is less helpful with breaststroke than with freestyle because so many swimmers swim breaststroke incorrectly.
		Since breaststroke is a slower stroke this is important to look into, especially if your race is at the Olympic distance or longer.
		3.If you will be using breaststroke in open water pratice swimming breaststroke with your wetsuit before the race.
	www.geocities.com /triathlonrules/breaststroke.html (333 words)

	Kosuke Kitajima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kosuke Kitajima (北島康介: Kitajima Kōsuke, September 22, 1982, Tokyo) is a Japanese breaststroke swimmer.
		On his breaststroke pull-out at every start and turn, some say that he moves his legs making a butterfly stroke-like movement, which was forbidden at the time of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
		His most significant rival on the breaststroke is the American swimmer Brendan Hansen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosuke_Kitajima (421 words)

	Rethinking sprint breaststroke Swimming Technique - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fastest men's 100 yard breaststroke is 51.86; the women's record is 59.05.
		The speed generated by college sprint breaststrokers is amazing: there have been numerous relay splits of sub-23.5 for short course yards.
		Probably not by strength alone-former breaststrokers Steve Lundquist, Richard Schroeder, John Moffet and Linn were probably some of the strongest swimmers ever to race breaststroke; likewise, Penny Heyns among the women.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3871/is_200110/ai_n8964171?... (888 words)

	Longhorn swimmer perfect in breaststroke competition - Sports (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hansen has never lost a collegiate race in the 100- or 200-yard breaststroke, and it would be hard to argue that anyone is better.
		He posted the top times in the 200-meter breaststroke (2:13.05) and the 400-meter medley relay (3:38.37) while finishing runner-up in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:01.43.
		One of his titles, the 200-yard breaststroke, broke an 11-year American and NCAA record set by Michigan's Mike Barrowman (1:53.77) when he posted the mark of 1:53.11.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2003/12/04/Sports/Longhorn.Swimmer.Perfect.In.Breaststroke.Competition-571805.shtml (492 words)

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