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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Open water swimming is an activity in which people swim in outdoor bodies of water such as oceans, bays, lakes and rivers. Triathletes competing in open water swimming The first recorded notable example of open water swimming took place on May 3rd 1810 when Lord Byron swam from Europe To Asia across the Hellespont Straight. This is often seen as the birth of the sport and past time and to commemorate it, the event is recreated every year as an open water swimming event. In the first edition of the modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, the swimming…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Open water swimming is an activity in which people swim in outdoor bodies of water such as oceans, bays, lakes and rivers. Triathletes competing in open water swimming The first recorded notable example of open water swimming took place on May 3rd 1810 when Lord Byron swam from Europe To Asia across the Hellespont Straight. This is often seen as the birth of the sport and past time and to commemorate it, the event is recreated every year as an open water swimming event. In the first edition of the modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, the swimming competition was held in open water. The triathlon, which involves an open water swim segment of 1500 meters, made its Olympic debut at the Sydney Games in 2000, while the 10 kilometer marathon swim was held at the Olympic level for the first time at the Beijing Games in 2008. Open water races of five, ten and 25 kilometers are held in the annual General Fina World Championships. Open water races usually has freestyle as the rule, meaning that the crawl stroke is used by skilled swimmers.