Butterfly became an independent stroke and made its Olympic debut at the 1956 Melbourne Games. The stroke is contested over distances of 100m and 200m. In swimming, the term “medley” refers to events ...

I once had a coach tell me that butterfly was the easiest stroke ... Any good butterflier knows the secret to the stroke is actually swimming it as little as possible, and rather underwater ...

If you do not do everything in the right order your stroke will have no style ... things spend a few sessions practicing them and then have a look at intermediate butterfly.

Butterfly is a difficult stroke to swim as it needs both stamina and style. The movements you need to make, however, are not difficult because you will have done many of them before in other strokes.

Jayden de Silva of Stafford International School stamped his name in Sri Lanka’s swimming history by becoming the first junior national swimmer to break the one-minute barrier in the 100m Butterfly ...