A newer, but not required technique for the backstroke to breaststroke turn is a backflip turn. The swimmer continues with the regular breaststroke, consisting of a gliding phase, an underwater pull-down, and another gliding phase before surfacing and swimming normal breaststroke. The swimmer is then under water face down and extends the hands forward before pushing off the wall with both legs. Most swimmers prefer to do an open turn, simply driving the feet into the wall. For the subsequent breaststroke the swimmer has to leave the wall on the breast. The backstroke section has to end with touching the wall while lying on the back. The swimmer then pushes off the wall with both legs and starts the regular underwater phase of backstroke, usually a dolphin kick for up to 15 m before surfacing and swimming normal backstroke. At the end of the backwards roll the swimmer sinks under water and extends over the head. This reduces the rotational moment and allows for a faster turn. During the roll in the first method the arms are not stretched, but rather hold close to the body with the hands a few centimeters in front of the chest. Swimmers may do this by pulling the knees underneath of their body after touching the wall with both hands, and then rolling backwards on their back, or swinging one arm back and rolling over onto the side of the arm swung back. The butterfly stroke section has to be ended with both hands touching the wall at the same time, but has to leave the wall on the back for backstroke. Each section has to be completed as described by the stroke rules of this section. The main difference is the turning technique needed at the transition from one stroke to the next stroke. The technique for individual medley events does not differ much from the technique for the separate events for the four strokes.
This has been an Olympic event since the 1964 Summer Olympics, Tokyo, Japan. 400 m/yd individual medley: Swum in both short course and long course competitions.This was swum as an Olympic event in the 1968 Summer Olympics, Mexico City, Mexico but then omitted until the 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles, United States. 200 m/yd individual medley: Swum in both short course and long course (50 m pool) competitions.100 m/yd individual medley: Swam in short course (25 m/yd pool) competition only.Regardless of the length of the individual medley, each stroke comprises a quarter of the overall distance. The competitions are limited in that every distance must consist of either four lengths of the pool (100-yard or -meter) or a multiple of four lengths (200- or 400-yard/- meter), so that no stroke must change mid-length. (4th can be any stroke except butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke most swimmers use the front crawl).Ī number of competitions in the individual medley are regularly contested, by both men and women. The swimmer will swim one quarter of the race in each style, in a certain order. These four strokes go in an order by Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and finally Freestyle.
Individual medley consists of four strokes. Individual medley consists of a single swimmer swimming equal distances of four different strokes within one race.
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