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The London Summer Games Swimming competition will be held on the 9th and 10th August at the Olympic Park - Aquatics Centre. Summer Games Swimming Tickets are available at eSeats.com. You can get your Olympic Swimming Tickets from eSeats.com. Read more about the swimming competition below...

Date	Event Description	Event Code
July 28th	100m breaststroke Heats 400m freestyle Heats 400m individual medley Heats 100m butterfly Heats 400m individual medley Heats 4x100m freestyle relay Heats	SW001
July 28th	100m breaststroke Semi-finals 400m freestyle Final, victory ceremony 400m individual medley Final, victory ceremony 100m butterfly Semi-finals 400m individual medley Final, victory ceremony 4x100m freestyle relay Final, victory ceremony	SW002
July 29th	100m backstroke Heats 200m freestyle Heats 4x100m freestyle relay Heats 100m backstroke Heats 100m breaststroke Heats 400m freestyle Heats	SW003
July 29th	100m backstroke Semi-finals 200m freestyle Semi-finals 100m breaststroke Final, victory ceremony 4x100m freestyle relay Final, victory ceremony 100m backstroke Semi-finals 100m breaststroke Semi-finals 100m butterfly Final, victory ceremony 400m freestyle Final, victory ceremony	SW004
July 30th	200m butterfly Heats 200m freestyle Heats 200m individual medley Heats	SW005
July 30th	200m butterfly Semi-finals 100m backstroke Final, victory ceremony 200m freestyle Final, victory ceremony 200m freestyle Semi-finals 200m individual medley Semi-finals 100m backstroke Final, victory ceremony 100m breaststroke Final, victory ceremony	SW006
July 31st	100m freestyle Semi-finals 200m breaststroke Semi-finals 200m butterfly Final, victory ceremony 4x200m freestyle relay Final, victory ceremony 200m butterfly Semi-finals 200m freestyle Final, victory ceremony 200m individual medley Final, victory ceremony	SW007
July 31st	110 metre hurdles Round 1 200 metres Round 1 Triple jump Qualifying 5,000 metres Round 1 Javelin Qualifying	SW008
Aug 1st	200m backstroke Heats 200m individual medley Heats 100m freestyle Heats 200m breaststroke Heats 4x200m freestyle relay Heats	SW009
Aug 1st	200m backstroke Semi-finals 200m individual medley Semi-finals 100m freestyle Final, victory ceremony 200m breaststroke Final, victory ceremony 100m freestyle Semi-finals 200m breaststroke Semi-finals 200m butterfly Final, victory ceremony 4x200m freestyle relay Final, victory ceremony	SW010

More about the Swimming Competition:

Swimmers use four strokes: freestyle (or front crawl), breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. A medley race is one where all four strokes are used. Most of the races take place in the middle eight lanes of a 50 metre long, 10 lane wide pool, but a longer 10 km race takes place in open water.

Pool: In a simple test of swimming speed, victory goes to the athlete who touches the pool wall first at the end of the race. In breaststroke and butterfly, swimmers must touch the wall with both hands simultaneously.

Backstroke swimmers start in the water with their feet against the wall and their hands holding on to a starting grip. In the other three strokes, swimmers start by diving into the water from a starting block.

Open water: Races can take place in fresh or saltwater, though there must be only minor currents or tide. The temperature of the water has to be a minimum of 61F (16C).

All open-water races are freestyle events and begin with a mass start from a fixed platform. The athletes then swim up and down a course marked out by buoys.

Making deliberate contact with a competitor during the race is forbidden. Any transgressions are spotted by judges, who hold up a yellow flag and a card with the swimmer’s number on it. A second offence is punishable by disqualification, signalled by a red flag.

Every swimmer is required to wear a microchip transponder on their wrist, which provides split and finish times. Swimmers who lose their transponder mid-race are issued with a replacement by an official. Finishing the race without a transponder leads to automatic disqualification.

Mooted changes to the Olympic swimming programme in 2012 did not materialise, which means that the race distances remain unchanged from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Events / disciplines

Men’s 50m freestyle, women’s 50 metre freestyle
Men’s 100m breaststroke, women’s 100m breaststroke
Men’s 100m backstroke, women’s 100m backstroke
Men’s 100m butterfly, women’s 100m butterfly
Men’s 100m freestyle, women’s 100m freestyle
Men’s 200m freestyle, women’s 200m freestyle
Men’s 200m butterfly, women’s 200m butterfly
Men’s 200m breaststroke, women’s 200m breaststroke
Men’s 200m backstroke, women’s 200m backstroke
Men’s 200m individual medley, women’s 200m individual medley
Men’s 400m individual medley, women’s 400m individual medley
Men’s 400m freestyle, women’s 400m freestyle
Men’s 1500m freestyle, women’s 800m freestyle
Men’s 4x100 medley relay, women’s 4x100 medley relay
Men’s 4x100 metre freestyle, women’s 4x100 freestyle relay
Men’s 4x200m freestyle, women’s 4x200 freestyle relay
Men’s 10k, women’s 10k