| I was reading about the freestyle event on Wikipedia | | | | stroke from native South Americans while in Argentina. |
| trying to understand the history of the event and a little | | | | The Australian crawl was developed from the trudgen, |
| history on the swimming stroke that is used in this | | | | merging the swimming style of a Solomon Islander |
| event. The freestyle stroke as I have mistakenly called | | | | named Alick Wickham who was working in Australia |
| it all my life goes by other names. | | | | with the trudgen. Richard Cavill introduced the |
| I know it went by the name of Australian crawl and | | | | Australian crawl to the world in 1920. The style known |
| sometimes American crawl but I just never paid | | | | as the American crawl was modified from the |
| attention to it. Another name would be the front crawl. | | | | Australian crawl by American swimmer Charles |
| In the freestyle event the competitor is allowed to use | | | | Daniels. |
| the stroke that is fastest for them, it happens to be | | | | The front crawl has really been around for centuries |
| that the front crawl is most people's fastest stroke | | | | but was first used in competition in 1844 in London. If |
| and is what you always see in competition. | | | | you look back in history you will find that swimming has |
| The original stroke that was used before the front | | | | always been a popular event but the breaststroke |
| crawl was called the trudgen. This stroke was named | | | | seems to have been the stroke of choice up till the |
| after an English swimmer named John Trudgen who | | | | trudgen was used.. |
| popularized the stroke in the late 1800's. He learned the | | | | |