Swimsuits used by elite male swimmers in the 13th FINA world Championship: analysis of freestyle events
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Several world records have been broken in recent
years. Swimming community speculates this fact is partly related due
to the changes in swimsuits characteristics. To swim faster one need
to increase the thrust and reduce drag, which can be achieved wearing
the new polyurethane swimsuits (Marinho et al., 2009). The purpose of
this study was to verify the distribution of different swimsuits used by
male swimmers during all the freestyle finals, according to the different
distances swum, at the last world championships being held at Rome
in 2009.
