摘要：Swimming is the second Olympic sport and one of the most popular around the World. On top of that, it became very high-tech, as performance depends from marginal gains. Scientific evidences on swimming started to be published on regular basis in the 1960s. Since then, a very unique community dedicated to swimming research started to growth. Every four years, swimming scientists share their knowledge in the International Symposium on Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming. This scientific meeting started in 1971 and already had eleven editions. Beyond the proceeding of these congresses, more than 2000 scientific articles have been published in peer-review journals since 1970. However these publications mostly concerned competitive swimming with various interests: physiology & energetics, biomechanics, training & testing, coaching, etc.
