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  1. Modern breaststroke traces its roots back to ancient eastern Egypt, where cave paintings depict people swimming the stroke. It’s been described in many cultures around the world, and it’s theorized that the stroke originated by swimmers mimicking the motions of a frog.
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    More than 150 years later, in 1696, the French naturalist and writer Melchisédech Thévenot published a book called “The Art of Swimming”. He first described a breaststroke technique that is very similar to today’s. Consequently, he can be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern swimming.
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    In 1696, the French author and poet Melchisédech Thévenot wrote The Art of Swimming, describing a breaststroke very similar to the modern breaststroke. The book (Benjamin Franklin became one of its readers) popularized this technique.
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    The history of breaststroke could go back to the Stone Age, as possibly indicated by images in the Cave of the Swimmers near Wadi Sora in the southwestern part of Egypt near Libya. The leg action of the breaststroke may have originated by imitating the swimming action of frogs. Depictions of a variant of … See more

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