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  Medley swimming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles into one race.
Medley relay consists of four different swimmers in one relay competition, each swimming one stroke.
Medley relay is swum by four different swimmers, each swimmer swimming one of the four strokes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medley_swimming   (1433 words)

  
 Medley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Medley swimming in swimming competitions refers to a combination of different strokes in one competition.
A medley which is a remixed series is called a megamix, often done for a single artist, or for popular songs from a given year.
A medley can also be used to refer to food and other things, such as a fruit or vegetable medley served as a side dish.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medley   (330 words)

  
 Swimming - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Swimming in general is the flotation of an object in a liquid due to its buoyancy or lift.
Swimming pools are popular venues for recreational swimming, as are beaches, lakes, swimming holes, creeks, rivers, and sometimes canals.
Swimming is an aerobic exercise due to the relatively long exercise times, requiring a constant oxygen supply to the muscles, except for short sprints where the muscles work anaerobically.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Swimming   (2741 words)

  
 Medley swimming: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The butterfly, (fly for short) is a swimming stroke swum on the breast, with the arms moving synchronously....
Freestyle is one of the official swimming competitions according to the rules of fina....
Snorkeling is the practice of swimming at the surface of a body of water equipped with a mask and a short tube called a snorkel....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/medley_swimming.htm   (2185 words)

  
 University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Titans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Swimming on UW-Oshkosh’s 200-yard medley relay team that posted a time of 1:54.64 were Tobakos, Sarah Schettle (Jr.
The 400-yard medley relay, 300-yard individual medley relay, 1500-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay, 300-yard butterfly relay and 300-yard backstroke relay teams all finished in fifth place in the meet.
Swimming on the 500-yard freestyle crescendo relay team that recorded a time of 5:04.72 were Gibbons, Picotte, Tobakos and Julie Zahour.
www.titans.uwosh.edu /WSwimming   (3224 words)

  
 Campus Recreation at St. Mary's University
Swimming describes any method by which living creatures move themselves through water apart from walking on the bottom.
Competitive swimming's international governing body is FINA, which includes local sub groups such as USA Swimming (USAS) and United States Masters Swimming (USMS) in the United States, Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) and Swimming Teachers Association (STA) in the United Kingdom.
Other countries with a great tradition in swimming are Russia (former Soviet Union: as to recent times, Alexander Popov was prominent in the fast races in the 1990s), Hungary, Poland, Germany, China (which has had a history of controversy due to probable steriod use), and Sweden.
www.stmarytx.edu /campus_rec?go=intra_spring_swim   (951 words)

  
 Canadian Paralympic Committee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Swimming has been a Paralympic Games event since the first games were held in Rome in 1960.
The events are grouped into three swimming programs to include the following groups of swimmers with a disability: 1.
A "functional" program comprised of swimmers with spinal cord injuries, swimmers with cerebral palsy, swimmers with amputations and others swimmers including those with progressive diseases such a muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis, dwarfs, swimmers with joint disabilities including stiffness, spina bifida, swimmers with a combinations of different disabilities, etc; 2.
www.paralympic.ca /english/sports/sports/swimming.asp   (200 words)

  
 Player Bio: Michael Bruce :: Men's Swimming
Finished 12th in the 100 breaststroke (54.34) and 13th in the 200 individual medley (1:46.73) at NCAAs...
Member of Cardinal 200 medley relay team that took top honors with a time of 1:25.63 at the conference championships (3/7)...
Took second at Pac-10s (3/6) in the 400 medley relay, swimming the second leg and fifth in the 200 IM (1:47.26)...
gostanford.cstv.com /sports/m-swim/mtt/bruce_michael00.html   (460 words)

  
 Swimming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She was given a warning by the International Swimming Federation, but her coach, Scott Volkers, was suspended for two years after he admitted giving her the tablet which resulted in the positive test.
Even though she didn't break her world record, it was a mighty swim, and of course it made her the only swimmer in Olympic Games history to have won the same event at three Olympics in a row.
She won the gold medals in the 200 and 400 metres freestyle and the 200 metres individual medley, silver in the 800 metres freestyle and bronze in the 100 metres.
www.abc.net.au /olympics_1996/swimming.htm   (7385 words)

  
 Bill Medley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Medley relay consists of four swimmers, eachswimming a different stroke in a relay swimming competition.
A medley which is a remixed series is called a megamix, often done fora single artist, or for popular songs from a given year.
Les Medley was a key man in the Tottenham Hotspur 's famous 'push and run' side that won the First Division championship in 1950-51having won the Second Division the season before, when Les was top scorer.
www.vermontreview.com /edge/39639-billmedley.html   (340 words)

  
 FINA SWIM RULES
The swimming pool and the technical equipment for Olympic Games and World Championships shall be inspected and approved in due course prior to the Swimming competitions by the FINA Delegate together with a member of the Technical Swimming Committee.
Where underwater video equipment is used by television, the equipment must be operated by remote control and shall not obstruct the vision or path of swimmers and must not change the configuration of the pool or obscure the required FINA markings.
Each judge of stroke shall ensure that the rules related to the style of swimming designated for the event are being observed, and shall observe the turns to assist the inspectors of turns.
www.swim2000.org /Rules/fina_swim_rules.htm   (5439 words)

  
 Legends of the Pool.
At Seoul in 1988 won gold in the 50m freestyle, the 100m freestyle, the 4x100m freestyle relay, the 4x200m freestyle relay, and the 4x100m medley relay.
Won gold in the 200m butterfly, the 200m individual medley, the 4x100m free relay, and the 4x100m medley relay.
Won the silver in the 200m Individual Medley and the bronze in the 400m Individual Medley.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Boulevard/6152/swimmers.html   (2736 words)

  
 Sports -- Georgetown Crushes Catholic in Season Opener
In addition to the medley relay, Welch scored first-place points in the 200-yard individual medley and the 200-yard breaststroke, with times of 2:13.38 and 2:27.69, respectively.
Schmidt swam the butterfly leg of the medley relay and won the 200-yard freestyle and the 200-yard butterfly, with times of 2:01.53 and 2:17.09.
Watanbe swam the butterfly leg of the winning medley relay, as well as winning the 200-yard individual medley and the 200-yard butterfly, in 2:05.90 and 2:05.88.
www.thehoya.com /sports/102098/sports4.htm   (580 words)

  
 Swim Faster with Online Training for Individual and Medley Swimmers
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www.swimmingtraining4life.com   (389 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
He won by being the first swimmer to reach shore after a boat had left everyone in the icy waters of the Mediterranean.
Olympic swimming has come a long way, to temperature-controlled 50-metre pools, wave-killing gutters, lane markers designed to reduce turbulence, and status as one of the Games' glamour events.
All four strokes are used in the 200m and 400m individual medley events.
www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=SW   (355 words)

  
 Vendt, Mellouli Qualify For 500y Free Finals At NCAA Championships :: Trojans' 400y medley relay also earns a spot in ...
Junior J.D. Abercrombie, in his third swim of the morning, helped USC qualify for the finals of the 400y medley relay, swimming the fly leg.
In the last race of the morning session, USC's 400y medley relay of senior Jeff Lee (back), freshman Mihaly Flaskay (breast), junior J.D. Abercrombie (fly) and Mellouli (free) qualified for the finals with the seventh-fastest time (3:12.02).
Also notable was Abercrombie, who was swimming for the third time of the session during his fly leg.
usctrojans.cstv.com /sports/m-swim/recaps/032703aaa.html   (473 words)

  
 Gophersports.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Gophers moved into sixth place with 166.5 points at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships held at the Gabrielsen Natatorium on the campus of the University of Georgia.
Silkaitis, who anchored the Gopher 400-yard and 200-yard medley teams, placed seventh, after swimming a 1:35.91 in preliminaries.
Minnesota sophomore Ryan Plummer finished fourth during the consolation final of the 400-yard individual medley swimming a personal-best 3:48.00, placing 12th to earn honorable mention All-America.
www.gophersports.com /sportsnews/press_release_print.asp?news_id=5641   (477 words)

  
 B-W: Yellow Jacket Swim Teams Each Beat Morningside (Iowa) College on Their Winter
Swimming on the winning 200-yard medley relay team were Anders, Zurca, Gombash and Markley.
Swimming on the winning 200-yard free relay team were Wood, Ritchie, freshman Kelsie Baker (Dover) and Iyengar.
Swimming on the winning 200-yard free relay team were Grilli, Mosiniak, Sonnenberg and sophomore Dave Fornier (Perrysburg/ Toledo St. John's).
www.bw.edu /athletics/sd/sched/morningside   (324 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > Olympics -- Medley relay world record a perfect ending
A world record of 3:37.32 in last night's women's medley relay and another gold by Grant Hackett in the men's 1,500 free gave rival Australia a total of 15 medals (six men's, nine women's).
Thompson, 31, was seventh in the women's 50 freestyle in which Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands defended her championship and American Kara Lynn Joyce placed fifth.
Little more than an hour later, Thompson and Joyce were swimming tired on a medley relay team that finished a distant silver to Australia.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/swimming/20040822-9999-lz1x22medley.html   (997 words)

  
 Swimmers and Coaches Have Winning Seasons With 3S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Tennessee Lady Volunteer swimming team poured in additional 24 points during the final session of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships to claim a 12th-place finish with a total of 104, as the meet concluded Saturday evening.
The Crimson, which tied for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League's dual-meet championship with a 7-1 league record and an 8-1 overall mark, achieved a superior rating with the nation's fourth-highest grade-point average.
The Carthage College men’s swimming team won its first-ever College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Swimming Championship on Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 9-11 at the Koenitzer Aquatic Center in Kenosha, Wis. The Red Men’s championship broke a nine-year Wheaton (Ill.) stranglehold on the conference title.
www.swimmingtraining4life.com /winningcoaches.shtml   (1647 words)

  
 Swimming Faster the Auburn Way: Training and Race Strategies for the Individual Medley
Coach Marsh believes that the Individual Medley is the cornerstone of a successful program, and takes great pride in the Auburn tradition of successful individual medley swimming.
Marsh begins with a breakdown of the seasonal training plan for the 200 and 400 IM which he develops from the taper back to the beginning of the season: early season, mid-season stage one, mid-season stage two, and the taper phase.
He shares detailed breakdowns of race strategies for the IM events for long and short course that include specific tips for effective stroke transitioning.
www.sportsnationvideo.com /swfaauwatran4.html   (263 words)

  
 TSN : olympics - Canada's Sports Leader
The water proves to be Canada's golden pond, with six medals in canoeing, six in rowing, three in yachting, a gold in diving and 10 in swimming including four gold.
Anne Ottenbrite wins gold in swimming while Sylvie Bernier tops the podium in diving.
Lori Fung gives Canada the first gold medal in rhythmic gymnastics while Larry Cain and the team of Alwyn Morris and Hugh Fisher paddle their way to gold medals in canoeing.
www.tsn.ca /olympics/feature.asp?fid=9414   (500 words)

  
 Faulty Flipper, IM, Individual Medley, masters swimming, swimming, Huddersfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But the lure of the 25-yard jungle was too great to ignore and last week, Roger came out of retirement and made his first appearance in a Masters meet.
Swimming in the men's 40-44 age group at a Masters meet at Auburn University on Feb. 16-17, Von Jouanne stroked the 200 yard individual medley in 1:56.29.
Yana Klochkova of the Ukraine shattered the world record in the Womens Short Course 400 individual medley with her 4:27.83 at the Paris World Cup event.
www.faultyflipper.co.uk /im.php   (216 words)

  
 Akron Sixth After First Day of MAC Swimming Championships :: Swimmers break records in the 400 medley relay.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
BUFFALO - Led by a school-record performance in the 400-yard medley relay, coach Brian Vereb's University of Akron swimming and diving team is sixth after the first day of competition at the Mid-American Conference Championships.
Junior captain Kristy Castillo paced the Zips in their record-breaking performance in the 400 medley relay, swimming a 52.57 in the freestyle leg of the event.
Michelle Thomas rounded out the UA scorers, finishing the 200-yard individual medley in a time of 2:06.72, good for fifth place.
gozips.cstv.com /sports/w-swim/spec-rel/050301aaa.html   (261 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Swimming
While aerobic exercises usually burn fat and help with losing weight, this effect is limited in swimming for two reasons.
How to swim (From the Boy's Own Book of Outdoor Sports (early 1900s))
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www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Swimming   (2795 words)

  
 College of Notre Dame - Swimming News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Libbon swam personal-bests in the 200-yard individual medley (2:28.02) and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:16.52) at the meet.
She finished second in the 400-yard individual medley (5:18.65), third in the 500-yard freestyle (5:54.70) and 1,000-yard freestyle (12:00.20) and fourth in the 200-yard individual medley (2:34.59).
Libbon was second in the 200m individual medley and 100m breaststroke in 2:49.46 and 1:30.10, respectively.
www.ndm.edu /activities/athletics/swimming/nd_stAct_SWnews.cfm   (2659 words)

  
 Swimming News '03-04
She placed second in the 100-yard butterfly with a school record time of 1:00.19, and joined the 200 medley relay to post a school record 1:54.37.
She swam both the 400 medley and free relays, and captured the 100 freestyle.
Both swam with the medley relay while Mariner also won the individual medley and Tammany had the top time in the 100 backstroke.
www.dickinson.edu /departments/sports/swmnews04.htm   (4212 words)

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