What year was swimming included in the Olympic competition?

The ancient Olympic Games did not have a swimming program. Swimming entered the modern Olympics in 1896, in accordance with the principle of equal rights for all sports put forward by the founder of the modern Olympics, Coubertin.

The 1st modern Olympic Games featured 3 swimming events: 100 meters, 500 meters and 1200 meters. At that time, the total **** had 26 competitors from 6 countries (Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Sweden and the United States).

It was the 1924 Olympics that really turned the page on the history of competitive swimming. For the first time, the competition was held at the regular swimming pool of Tourelles in Paris.

Diving has its origins in the development of swimming, with a group of boys depicted diving headfirst on an ancient Greek vase in the 5th century, and jumping into the water from the shore and masts prevalent in the 17th century in the ports around Scandinavia, the Mediterranean Sea, and along the coast of the Red Sea. Modern diving began in the 20th century, with Swedish athletes performing diving at the 2nd Olympic Games in 1900. men's diving was first officially listed as a competition event at the St. Louis Olympics in 1904, and women divers were allowed to compete for the first time at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. It was not until 1951 that diving became an official Olympic event with complete rules. Currently, the Olympic diving competition **** has eight gold medals.

Water polo is one of the earliest collective competitions in the history of the Olympic Games. Men's water polo in the 1900 Paris Olympics was listed as an official competition, women's water polo in the 2000 Sydney Olympics was listed as an official competition. Currently, there are two gold medals for men and women in Olympic water polo.

Style swimming is a women's program, which originated in Germany, Britain and other European countries in the 1920s, and was originally an underwater performance program during the breaks of swimming competitions, which was choreographed by swimming, technique, dance and music, and was known as "underwater ballet". 1920, KATHERINE CURTIS, the founder of synchronized swimming, was invited to perform at the Paris Olympics, which was the official event. KATHERINE CURTIS) will be diving and gymnastics tumbling movements arranged into sets of performances in the water, after the introduction of the United States and Canada. 1984, synchronized swimming has become an official Olympic Games program, single, double two. 1996 changed to a collective race, set up double and collective two projects, and later changed to double and collective two projects in 2000.