Swimming championships at Halberstadt Germany (1936)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Competitors dive into the water and one swimmer is seen performing new back-breast stroke technique. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Swimming Champions Demonstration of new back-breast stroke GERMANY: Halberstadt: Harz: EXT SWIMMING. Pre-Olympic training at Halberstadt & Berlin - new breast-stroke Sport; Germany aquatics, 1936 Summer Olympics, swim, Background: Competitors dive into the water and one swimmer is seen performing new back-breast stroke technique. PS (The stroke is Butterfly with Breaststroke legs, an early forerunner to Modern Butterfly. This was allowed to be swum as breaststroke in 1936) FILM ID: VLVA41UW6RT1OUXFCIHO0DF3T9YV1 To license this film, visit Archive: Reuters Archive managed by: British Pathé