Swimming badge (GDR)
The swimming badge (commonly known as swimming level ) was awarded in three stages in the GDR and served as evidence of swimming performance.
Conditions for the award
Breaststroke , back crawl , crawl swimming or butterfly swimming could be selected as swimming types . The following requirements applied in the 1970s and 1980s (prior to that, different requirements applied).
Elementary level
To reach the basic level, you had to swim 100 m in any type of swim. Plus any jump into deep water.
Level I.
To reach level I, you either had to swim 100 m in any swimming mode; or 25 m in one swim type and another 25 m in another swim type. There was no time limit. To do this, head forward into deep water.
Stage II
For level II, you had to swim 100 m in one type of swim and 50 m in another type of swim without a time limit and take a start jump.
Stage III
For level III, you had to swim 100 m in one type of swim and a further 100 m in another type of swim in a maximum time - alternatively 400 m in one type of swim - and take a start jump.
Maximum times for 100 m
| Grade 4 and younger students | 3:30 min | |
| Grade 5 and 6 students | 3:00 min | |
| Grade 7 and 8 students | 2:45 min | |
| Grade 9 and older students | 2:30 min |
See also
literature
- Gerhard Lewin: New version of the swimming badge of the German Swimming Association of the GDR . In: physical education . No. 33 , 1983, pp. 454-456 .
Web links
- My swimming lessons in the GDR (with scans of the documents)
- Sport in the GDR