Swimming

Swimming

Swimming participation overview

Swimming is the most popular sport for female participation.

There are 0.8 million more women than men swimming weekly.

There has been a significant decrease in female participation in swimming over the past three years – approx. 2.14 million women swam at least once a week in 2007-08 compared with 1.98 million women in 2009-10.

Key links:

British Swimming

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About WSFF

The Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) is the UK charity that campaigns to make physical activity an everyday part of life for women and girls. Our aim is to create a nation of active women.

To make being active more attractive for women and girls we do three things:

Help - we help sport and fitness organisations understand what women want.
Inspire - we inspire women to take part.
Persuade - we campaign to persuade policy makers that having more active women will benefit all of us.