Finswimming, Formula 1 of Water Sports
The main appeal of finswimming is the speed that a finswimmer can reach. The world record for the 50 mts freestyle is 20.91 seconds by Cesar Ciello from Brasil, in finswimming it is 13.98 seconds in 50 mt Apnea by Pavel Kabanov, from Russia, almost 13 kms per hour!
Finswimming is a discipline where swimmers compete with a monofin, a fiberglass foil made up with rubber shoes, swimming with dolphin kick and stretched arms over the head.
Monofins allow a 33% increase in speed over conventional swimming. Many people consider finswimming the Formula 1 of water sports, due to the …
