Italian championship salvamento

Italian Championships absolute swimming Salvamento FIN at the Stadium of Swimming
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History of Salvamento:

The Salvamento in Italy was officially September 28, 1899 in the town hall of Ancona under pressure determinant of Arturo Passerini with the name of the Italian Society of Salvamento (SIS) "Natatorium" and in order to "disclose with the practice of Swimming, 'salvamento training and first aid asfittici and increase the construction of swimming pools natatorie." The fathers / pioneers of this discipline are to be found among the swimmers Italian animosi more than a decade earlier wanted to remove all limits on their activities for afffrontare in all seasons and at any distance open water and so were called "rare nantes." This, then, that all the most ancient and glorious Rare Nantes (the parent Rare Nantes Rome, founded in 1891) gave purpose Statutario the practice of swimming Salvamento with the obligation to establish schools and make Gare training. The Italian Society of Salvamento and its sections (had formed those of Ascoli, Palermo, Naples, Turin, Milan, Rome, Viareggio, Castellammare di Stabia, Bari and Pizzo Calabro) is distinguished for intensive educational activities based on teaching movements of swimming, courses salvamento and emergency medical care to asfittici.: basic programme that was adopted by the Armed Forces and its purpose, albeit with obvious adaptations storms, are still being pursued today. The courses normally ended with competitions (antesignane, therefore, of modern races) and with essays by swimming skills, salvamento and first aid.