Sentence examples for backstroke with from inspiring English sources

China's Zhao Jing took gold in the women's 50m backstroke – with the inevitable world record.

At the 2007 meet, Markus Rogan led all qualifiers in the men's 100 backstroke with a 54.34.

The Crewe swimmer triumphed in the mens' 200m backstroke with a time of 2 01.30 but that was more than six seconds down on the required Rio standard.

While Nida Senff of the Netherlands was winning Holm's specialty, the 100-meter backstroke, with American entries finishing third and fourth, Holm joined her sportswriter friends.

She captured the first of her two individual events, the 100 backstroke, with a time of 1 minute 00.37 seconds on Monday at the Olympic Aquatic Center.

Hoelzer, who took second in the 100 backstroke Tuesday night, emerged from the 200 backstroke with her first world record, finishing in 2 minutes 6.09 seconds.

Pivot the boat by dragging one oar in the water while backstroking with the other oar until the drift boat is about 45-degrees across the river current.

"Obviously they probably were a bit tired from the 400 last night, but who cares?" The Loughborough swimmer was inspired by Rebecca Adlington's bronze medal in the 400m freestyle last night while tonight her boyfriend Liam Tancock will go in the 100m backstroke final with Gemma Spofforth in the women's equivalent.

Swimmer Michael Phelps won his 17th Olympic gold - in the men's 100m butterfly - and fellow American Missy Franklin won the 200m backstroke gold with a world record.

Elsewhere Georgia Davies set a new personal best of 57.41 en-route to qualifying third quickest for Thursday's 100m backstroke final, with team-mate Elizabeth Simmonds narrowly missing out.

She would later go on to get a bronze medal in the women's 100 backstroke, tying with Canada's Kylie Masse at 58.76.