What everyone's reading Front crawl If you're keen on entering a swim event or trying your hand at triathlon, front crawl is the stroke you're going to want to master.

In the pool, not all strokes are created equal, and you might be wondering what's the best swim stroke for burning calories? Breaststroke, front crawl, back crawl and butterfly all have their ...

As swimming races became more competitive, however, slowly the advantages of the crawl stroke proved irresistible, and more swimmers began to use it.

The front crawl, once considered clumsy, was now viewed as the future of competitive swimming. Other swimmers, including Dick Cavill, took Wickham's stroke and refined it further, eventually ...

No one was swimming the front crawl that we now call freestyle — the stroke that's arguably the most prestigious and quickest in the world of competitive swimming.