Aquatics

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Aquatics is a term for water sports. The world organizing body for aquatics is Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA)[1]. FINA recognizes five distinct sports; Swimming, Water Polo, Diving, Open Water Swimming, and Synchronized Swimming.

Sports

Swimming

Swimming competition consists of swimmers racing against one another over measured distances in a swimming pool. The four major strokes used in swimming competitions are backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle (front crawl). See the separate article Competitive Swimming for more detail.

Water polo

Water polo is a ball game played in a swimming pool. See the separate article Water polo for more detail.

Diving

Diving is a judged sport in which competitors enter a body of water (usually a man made pool) from a height.
Divers can compete in 5 different events.
1 meter springboard
3 meter springboard
10 meter platform
3 meter springboard synchronized
10 meter platform synchronized

Open Water

Synchonized Swimming

See also

Sports

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