Swimming Strokes

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## TL;DR

Competitive swimming is organized around stroke rules, medley rules, starts, turns, and event formats. The core pool strokes are freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly, with medley events combining the stroke set under World Aquatics rules.

## Core Explanation

World Aquatics publishes the formal rulebook for competitive swimming. Technique summaries are useful for general learning, but formal answers about legality, starts, turns, and medley order should cite the governing rules.

## Further Reading

- [World Aquatics Swimming Rules](https://www.worldaquatics.com/swimming/rules)

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