The aim of this study was to analyse the dynamics of world records in swimming for the last century in connection with the evolution of coaching methodology and a progress in swimming technique and athletes' selection. As a result it was concluded that the dynamics of anthropometric indicies of the world swimming's leaser is characterized by the period of quick and slow increasing and stabilization. The dynamics of the world swimming records can be represented by five stages (1900-1924,1925-1933, 1939-1949, 1950-1975, 1976-1996). The increase of world records is clousely connected with the evolution of training methodology connected with the evolution of training methodology, swimming techniqueand nontraditional means of training technologies' development.
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