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===Plunging=== [[File:The Plunge Sinclair 1893.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Plunging, the first competitive diving sport]] Although diving has been a popular pastime across the world since ancient times, the first modern diving competitions were held in [[England]] in the 1880s. The exact origins of the sport are unclear, though it likely derives from the act of diving at the start of [[Swimming (sport)|swimming]] races.<ref name="1877starts">Wilson, William. [https://books.google.com/books?id=jUYCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA60 The swimming instructor], pp. 60β64 (1883)</ref><ref name="howtogetin">(2 August 1845). [https://books.google.com/books?id=I3AXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA245 Swimming β Section III β How To Go Into The Water β Plunging], ''The Sportsman's magazine''</ref> In the seventeenth century gymnasts moved their equipment to the beaches and "performed acrobatics over the water."<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278591905701459 |title=The basics of competitive diving and its injuries |author=B D Rubin |date=April 1999 |publisher=Elsevier|journal=Clinics in Sports Medicine |volume=18 |issue=2 |access-date=29 May 2024 |pages=293β303|doi=10.1016/S0278-5919(05)70145-9 |pmid=10230565 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240529141808/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278591905701459 |archive-date=29 May 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> The 1904 book ''Swimming'' by Ralph Thomas notes English reports of plunging records dating back to at least 1865.<ref>Thomas, Ralph. [https://archive.org/details/swimmingwithlis01thomgoog/page/n158 <!-- pg=149 --> Swimming], pp. 149β50 (1904)</ref> The 1877 edition to ''British Rural Sports'' by [[John Henry Walsh]] makes note of a "Mr. Young" plunging {{convert|56|ft|m}} in 1870, and also states that 25 years prior, a swimmer named Drake could cover {{convert|53|ft|m}}.<ref name="walsh1">[[John Henry Walsh|Walsh, John Henry]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZMXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA720 British rural sports], pp. 720β21 (13th ed. 1877)</ref> The English [[Amateur Swimming Association]] (at the time called the Swimming Association of Great Britain) first started a "[[Plunge for distance|plunging championship]]" in 1883.<ref>Henry, William and Sinclair, Archibland. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UfgWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111 Swimming], p.110-19, 411 (1893)</ref><ref name="1883enc">Cox, Richard et al. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JWQTAQAAIAAJ&q=plunging+1883 Ref Encyclopedia of British sport], p. 111 (2000)</ref> The Plunging Championship was discontinued in 1937.
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