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[Cheeky Monkey]

With England’s crunch football match looming it begs the question - has anyone ever swum anything but front crawl in a ‘freestyle’ swimming race, Olympic, Commonwealth Games, Seaford Head School pool or otherwise? Why not just call it a crawl race? Could an ‘aggressive’ butterfly stroke or a rapid side stroke ever best a front crawl? Hmmmm...

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Well hey l'm no swimmer, but isn't butterfly a faster stroke than crawl?

 

[schmunk]

Well hey l'm no swimmer, but isn't butterfly a faster stroke than crawl?

In a word, no.


In three words, no it's not.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Well hey l'm no swimmer, but isn't butterfly a faster stroke than crawl?

Apparently the butterfly is about 7% slower overall. I looked it up because I know nothing about swimming but thought crawl looks faster.

 

[zefarelly]

Are flippers allowed?

 

[nickbrighton]

Are flippers allowed?

unfair advantage

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Apparently the butterfly is about 7% slower overall. I looked it up because I know nothing about swimming but thought crawl looks faster.

All that effort you need to put into butterfly, it ought to be faster!

 

[maffew]

In a word, no.


In three words, no it's not.

Technically that's in four words.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

With England’s crunch football match looming it begs the question - has anyone ever swum anything but front crawl in a ‘freestyle’ swimming race, Olympic, Commonwealth Games, Seaford Head School pool or otherwise? Why not just call it a crawl race? Could an ‘aggressive’ butterfly stroke or a rapid side stroke ever best a front crawl? Hmmmm...

All but one triathlon I've done has involved me doing breaststroke for the swim leg – which is essentially 'freestyle', although I don't think backstroke is encouraged.

I simply couldn't do crawl properly because of breathing issues, but I found that I was actually quicker than quite a few people doing crawl. Then I re-learned how to swim and nailed the swim leg as part of an Ironman in a time that was WAY quicker than I'd imagine.