Swimming championships at Halberstadt Germany

Record ID: 640545

  • Title: Swimming championships at Halberstadt Germany
  • Date: 23rd July 1936
  • Summary: SLATE INFORMATION: Swimming Champions Demonstration of new back-breast stroke GERMANY: Halberstadt: Harz: EXT SWIMMING. Pre-Olympic training at Halberstadt & Berlin - new breast-stroke Sport; Germany aquatics, 1936 Summer Olympics, swim,
  • Embargoed: 7th August 1936 13:00
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  • Location: Halberstadt & Berlin
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA41UW6RT1OUXFCIHO0DF3T9YV1
  • Story Text: Competitors dive into the water and one swimmer is seen performing new back-breast stroke technique.

    PS (The stroke is Butterfly with Breaststroke legs, an early forerunner to Modern Butterfly. This was allowed to be swum as breaststroke in 1936)
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