Of all the swimming disciplines, breaststrokers expend the most energy as their arm and leg movements require perfect synchronization

Competitive swimming consists of four stokes: butterfly, breaststroke, freestyle and backstroke

There are several types of officials that judge a swimming race: a starter, finish judges, turn judges, stroke judges, timekeepers and on overall referee

Kangaroos are great swimmers!

Swimming can take place in either a 25m (short course) or 50m (long course) swimming pool

While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year

Women weren’t permitted to swim at the Olympics until 1912