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unusual facts about breaststroke



1958 Asian Games

The Japanese 4×100 metres medley relay team of Keiji Hase (backstroke), Masaru Furukawa (breaststroke), Manabu Koga (freestyle) and Takashi Ishimoto (butterfly) won the gold medal with a time of 4:17.2 and broke the world record.

Adrian Moorhouse

Canadian Victor Davis first encountered Adrian Moorhouse at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane when Davis took gold in the 200 m breaststroke, and Moorhouse took the gold in the 100 m breaststroke.

Anthony Robinson

Anthony Robinson (swimmer), from the United States, who briefly in 2001 held the World Record in the long course 50 breaststroke.

Béla Rajki

He was head coach of the Hungarian 1948 Olympic Swimming Team, which won a gold medal (Eva Novak; 200m breaststroke).

Beverley Whitfield

She competed at the International Coca-Cola Meet at Crystal Palace in London, taking the bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke behind the Soviet Union's Galina Stepanova, the world record holder.

Bradford Worrell

Worrell holds several Saint Lucian swimming records, including the long course 200 m event (with a time of 2:03.10, set in 2004), and the short course 200 m (2:01.63; 2004), 400 m freestyle (4:23.75; 2004), 100 m (1:07.65; 2013) and 200 m breaststroke events (2:36.92; 2013).

Caroline Bruce

Since the Olympics, McAndrew has been a member of the Stanford University women's swim team, specializing in the breaststroke and individual medley events.

Clearance diver

Their bodies were recovered, and their swimfins were taken and used by two of Gibraltar's British guard divers (who dived with Davis Escape Sets and (up to here) breaststroke swimming and no fins) (Sydney Knowles and Commander Lionel Crabb).

Cristian Mauro Soldano

Cristian Mauro Soldano (born June 2, 1976 in Salta) is a retired Argentine swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.

Felipe França Silva

Felipe Alves França da Silva (born May 14, 1987 in Suzano, São Paulo) is a breaststroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed for his country at the 2008 Olympics.

Hanna Eriksson

Hanna Eriksson (born February 1, 1984) is a breaststroke and medley swimmer from Sweden.

Ian O'Brien

The favourites for the 200 m breaststroke were Chet Jastremski of the United States—the world record holder—and Georgy Prokopenko of the Soviet Union.

India at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

He earned the berth in 100 m breaststroke – SB8 event after winning a bronze medal in the Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, China.

Joaquín Fernández

Joaquín Fernández Corredor (born January 22, 1971 in Mataró, Catalonia) is a former medley and breaststroke swimmer from Spain.

Lia Dekker

A week before the European Championships, Dekker broke the national record in the 200 m breaststroke, which was set by Linda Moes during the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Luke Trickett

At the 2002 Oceania Swimming Championships, he won the 200 breaststroke in a then Championships Record of 2:16.38.

Maria Lenk

Lenk's account of the event was that at the time she subscribed to a German specialized magazine that ran a story on David Armbruster's and Jack Sieg's work in developing "a new way of swimming the Breaststroke".

Moniek Nijhuis

Nijhuis broke the national record in the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke (SC) in Aachen at an early season meet.

Neuqua Valley High School

Kevin Cordes - 3 time American Record Holder in the 100 and 200 yard Breaststroke .

Norbert Rózsa

Norbert Rózsa (born 9 February 1972 in Dombóvár) is a former breaststroker from Hungary, who competed at three consecutive Olympics, beginning with the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Patrícia Comini

Patrícia Comini-Ribeiro da Silva (born March 8, 1975 in Americana) is a former breaststroke and butterfly swimmer from Brazil.

Ponds Forge

The latter was in the heats of the European Championships on the 3 August 1993 when Károly Güttler of Hungary went 1.00.95 to set a new world mark in the 100 m breaststroke.

Ryan Mitchell

At the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Mitchell finished fifth in the 200m breaststroke and then won silver at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, behind fellow Australian Simon Cowley, who won both breaststroke events.

After Australia's only 100m breaststroker Phil Rogers put in a poor performance in the individual event, Australian head coach Don Talbot dropped Rogers and Mitchell swam in the heats of the 4x100m medley relay, even though he was not originally selected in the 100m breaststroke.

South Africa at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Kevin Paul (100 breaststroke, 200 individual medley, 400 freestyle)

Stacey Tadd

Stacey Tadd (born 21 February 1989 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a British breaststroke swimmer.

Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics, took place on November 29–30, at the Swimming and Diving Stadium.

Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics, took place on October 11–12, at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium.

In the heats, Australian Christine Barnetson was disqualified for an incorrect breaststroke, and Hungarian Márta Egerváry withdrew from the competition.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 m Breaststroke event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

The men's 50m Breaststroke event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Friday, July 22, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

The Women's 100m Breaststroke event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games took place on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The Women's 200m Breaststroke event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Monday, July 17, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 50 metre breaststroke

The Women's 50m Breaststroke event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey.

Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey.

Swimming at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The Men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games took place on 13 December 2013 at Wunna Theikdi Aquatics Centre.

Swimming at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

The Women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games took place on 13 December 2013 at Wunna Theikdi Aquatics Centre.

Swimming at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games took place on 15 December 2013 at Wunna Theikdi Aquatics Centre.

Tales Cerdeira

In World Military Games conducted in 2010 in Warendorf, Germany, won the gold medal in the 50-metre, 100-metre, 200-metre breaststroke and 4×100-metre medley.

Tatiane Sakemi

Tatiane Mayumi Sakemi (born March 22, 1986 in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo) is a Brazilian swimmer of Japanese ancestry, who specialized in breaststroke events.

Theresa Goh

She competed at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Swimming Championships in South Africa in December 2006, winning a gold medal in the 200 metres individual medley and being pipped to first place in the 100 metres breaststroke by Israel's Inbal Pezaro by just 0.04 seconds.

Vladislav Polyakov

Two weeks later, at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey, Polyakov earned a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at 2:12.69, just 0.34 seconds off a leading time set by Poland's Sławomir Kuczko.

Wellington, New South Wales

Ian O'Brien — Olympic gold medallist in the 200m breaststroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics, grew up in Wellington

Xiaomin

Huang Xiaomin (born 1970), former breaststroke swimmer from China, Olympic silver medallist

Yldefonso

Teófilo Yldefonso (1903–1943), Filipino swimmer in the breaststroke


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