| He won the 100m backstroke and freestyle on day one, and followed up by winning the 100m butterfly on day two. |
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| This exercise also plays a vital role in swimming during stroke recovery in the freestyle, butterfly and backstroke. |
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| Yet, why is the transition turn from backstroke to breaststroke only used in high school swimming? |
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| It helps me to elevate the shoulder that's out of the water when I'm swimming regular backstroke, and it emphasizes hip rotation. |
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| Molly's balance in the water is one of the reasons her backstroke is so fast. |
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| Jackie, you're so good at the other strokes like crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke. |
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| There were individual medleys, as well as backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke and freestyle events. |
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| Blackburn council decide to ban the backstroke in a swimming pool in case somebody bumps his or her head. |
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| As well as being a competitive swimming stroke, backstroke has an important role in injury prevention. |
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| The paddles thus acted like hydrofoils generating thrust during the backstroke and also from lift during the recovery stroke. |
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| Feet, due to their similar shape while in the freestyle or backstroke mode of kicking, may be compared to the thrust of a ship's propeller. |
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| He looked proud of himself and fell backwards under the water, doing a backstroke away. |
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| He had a great fly, and his backstroke was technically perfect, but he wasn't strong enough to go faster. |
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| I only watched to begin with and when I did finally get in the water backstroke was the only thing I liked. |
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| Swimming backstroke gives them a chance to work the kinks out of their tired freestyle muscles with some active rest swimming. |
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| His best events are the 50-meter and 100-meter backstroke, as well as the 200 individual medley. |
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| She went out fast and paid for it late but hung on to win the 100 backstroke. |
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| However 15 meters is difficult for most swimmers to sustain in a 200 backstroke. |
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| Tara won third place in Swimming 50-meter backstroke in the Inter-Village finals last June. |
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| Biding her time on the opening fly leg, she took over the lead in the backstroke and extended it with every lap. |
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| A triple gold medalist in Sydney, he is searching for a final hurrah on the Olympic stage, namely the defense of his title in the 100 backstroke. |
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| Katy can't believe her time as she wins the 200 backstroke in a new British and Commonwealth record. |
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| It marked the first time an American woman had set the 100 meter backstroke world record in nearly 34 years. |
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| He also won the consolation final of the 100 backstroke with a lifetime best time. |
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| He may be the best freestyle swimmer in the world, but the 100m backstroke was an event he entered to vary his programme. |
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| She also reached the final of the 200m backstroke, 200m breaststroke and 100m freestyle. |
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| He was first in the 100m freestyle, second in the 100m backstroke and individual medley and third in the 100m breaststroke and butterfly. |
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| The swimmer also picked up merits in the 4 x 50m freestyle and the 50m backstroke as he was credited with a 4th and 5th placing in the events. |
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| He nearly won four more bronzes when fourth in the 50m backstroke and breaststroke, and 100m of both those strokes. |
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| He will now line up in the 200 backstroke on Day two before taking on the 100m on Saturday and Sunday. |
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| The signal for this was ringing the treble on it's own for a handstroke and a backstroke. |
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| I medaled in all six of my events, and I almost captured the gold in the 200 meter backstroke, missing by just 1-tenth of a second. |
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| These camps keep children amused while allowing them to brush up on their acting skills, the backstroke or learn to play a sport. |
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| Rose won the 200m butterfly along with the 200m and 400m individual medleys, while finishing third in the 200m backstroke. |
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| The backstroke is ideal for toning the upper body, while the breast stroke works those hard-to-tone inner thighs. |
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| After you've taught the butterfly, add dolphin kick on the back to backstroke instruction. |
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| He was second in freestyle, third in both backstroke and butterfly and fourth in breaststroke. |
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| Reese predicts that the bulk of the team's points will come from middle distance freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and diving. |
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| You then follow this bell's handstroke with your backstroke and its backstroke with your handstroke. |
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| Thy hands should be touching each other on both the handstroke and the backstroke to ensure an even pull. |
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| I've never heard of a swimming pool anywhere in the world that has banned backstroke. |
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| All in all, Japan's men took home five of six golds and went 1-2 in four events, including a sweep of the 700 backstroke. |
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| German Sandra Voelker set a new women's 50m backstroke world record in the preliminary heats of the national championships in Berlin. |
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| Crawl wasn't even heard of, and people did backstroke with both arms at the same time with a frog kick. |
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| At last month's Telstra Australian Short Course Championships the pair dead-heated twice in the finals of the 50m and 100m backstroke events. |
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| Curious, Alyssa stopped practicing her backstroke and looked at her father. |
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| I started on my stomach, but turned to a sidestroke, then a backstroke to get to the island. |
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| This article will illustrate some of the key points in the recovery of the first arm stroke out of the breakout in the backstroke. |
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| Last year I had the luxury of swimming a few strokes backstroke so I could get a good look at the Golden Gate Bridge. |
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| Though Mikhaila swims all strokes, she said she likes the backstroke the best. |
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| Welsh goes into the 200m backstroke ranked number two behind Olympic champion Aaron Peirsol with fellow Australian Ethan Rolff also in the top eight. |
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| Since the Olympics had no backstroke event for women, she entered the only three races open to women that year. |
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| The veteran member of the CF swim team went on to set two national records in the backstroke heats. |
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| So popular was the gala that the number of events had to be restricted to the front crawl and the backstroke because such a large number of competitors turned up. |
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| A lot of kids don't know that there is a backstroke breathing pattern. |
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| A year ago, I would have said that the backstroke was her worst stroke. |
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| Freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, breast-stroke and relays are all included on the slate of events. |
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| A ripsaw cuts on the forward stroke rather than the backstroke. |
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| This will introduce suction on the backstroke, drawing more air out of the damage. |
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| Lochte finished third in the 200m backstroke and then got blitzed by Phelps in the 200m individual medley. |
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| Militis has a better chance in the 200m backstroke but both swimmers should be in with a shout of the finals, and from that point anything can happen. |
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| Activities at risk for rotator cuff tendinitis include baseball, weight lifting, racquet sports, and swimming freestyle, butterfly or backstroke. |
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| The original said that Ruta Meilutyte hit the front in the 100m backstroke rather than breaststroke. |
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| No swimmer may swim more than one leg of the relay, which is swum in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle order. |
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| A Calgary native, Callum Ng was a member of the Canadian swimming team, featuring, at one time, in the world top 10 in the 50m backstroke. |
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| In swimming Debbie set a Canadian and World record in the 50m backstroke in 1986 in Belgium. |
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| He has close provincial times in the 100m and 200m backstroke and regularly participates in swim meets. |
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| With the extraordinary time of 52.38 Aschwin Wildeboer Faber set up the world record for men 100m backstroke. |
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| In the open gala, Amy Clayden produced superb form to claim gold in the butterfly, backstroke and freestyle and a silver in the individual medley. |
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| He could have skipped the 200 free and swam the 200 backstroke, which he qualified for at the Olympic Trials but decided not to swim here in Athens. |
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| If you've been swimming a lot of front crawl or fly, swim some backstroke. |
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| This beautifully finished pool is likely to impress especially backstroke swimmers, who will be able to gaze in appreciation at the impressive reflections from the ceiling. |
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| Additionally, two bronze medals were awarded in the men's 100 m backstroke and women's pole vault as a result of a tie between two athletes. |
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| With regard to individual events, in 1982 she won the gold medal in the 100 m backstroke while in 1986 she earned 2 world titles: in the 100 m freestyle and the 200 m medley. |
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| In the I. M., a swimmer begins with the butterfly, changes to the backstroke after one-fourth of the race, then the breaststroke for another quarter and finally finishes with the freestyle. |
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| There were 152 freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke races. |
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| Their daughter Andrea won a silver in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and later married Olympic canoeing gold medalist Mihály Hesz. |
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| Julia Wilkinson of Stratford, ON will refocus after a bronze medal performance in the 200-metre individual medley, as she gets to race one of her specialties, the 100m backstroke. |
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| Although you're not able to do the leg movements, you do the upper body movements like breaststroke, overarm and backstroke. |
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| Laure Manaudou will be one of the hottest athletes in Beijing next year and could win up to four individual gold medals in the 200, 400 and 800m freestyle and 100m backstroke. |
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| Watch her steal the show in the 100-meter backstroke Monday. |
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| All three Canadians advanced to the semis in the women's 100 backstroke. |
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| In the women's 100 backstroke, two Canadians reached the final with Julia Wilkinson of Victoria placing fourth and Sinead Russell of Oakville, Ont. |
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| Sanja Jovanoviæ won a gold medal and set a new world record at 26.37 in 50 meter backstroke on the last day of the World Championship in Manchester. |
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| Greg Knight will swim as U11 champion in the backstroke while Sophie Lees will represent the U11s in the front crawl. |
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| Charles Francis of Montreal was seventh in the men's 50 backstroke while Katerine Savard of Quebec City and MacKenzie Downing of Whitehorse were seventh and eighth respectively in the women's 50 butterfly. |
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| Kiefer, who became the Olympic 100 m backstroke champion in front of 20,000 spectators at the enormous open-air swimming arena in the Reichssportfeld, had been deceived, just like many other athletes and officials. |
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| Food writer Jenni Fleetwood recommends working up an appetite walking along the golden beach in Hout Bay, pausing to watch fur seals biding their time with a little backstroke before the fishing boats return to port. |
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| Benzo won the 200 individual medley and 100 freestyle, Coddington was victorious in the 200 and 500 freestyle events, and Hanson captured the 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke. |
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| Bethan Coole, of Newport, reached the semi-final of the 100m backstroke and was due to take part in her third successive day in the pool today in the 100m fly. |
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| Wales's two most experienced competitors, Catrin Davies and Bethan Coole, were also out of luck in the semi-finals of the women's 100 freestyle and backstroke respectively. |
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