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Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. Depictions of swimmers were also found from the Hittites, Minoans, and other Middle Eastern civilizations, the Incas in the Tepantitla House at Teotihuacan, and in mosaics in Pompeii. There are also many mentions of swimmers in the Vatican, Borgian and Bourbon codices.
While the British raced using breaststroke, the Native Americans swam a variant of the front crawl, which has been used by people in the Americas, West Africa and some Pacific islands for generations, but was not known to the British.
Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke.
The front crawl, then called the trudgen, was introduced in 1873 by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from Native Americans. including Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts , Isaiah ), Beowulf, and other sagas, although the style is never described.
In 1538 Nicolas Wynman, German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book "Colymbetes".
His goal was not exercise, but rather to reduce the dangers of drowning.