Development of Swimming Sport in Tanjungpinang City

Abstract

This research aims to determine development of swimming sport, that viewed from Coach qualifications, athlete conditions, supporting facilities conditions, and mechanism of swimming sport organizations in Tanjungpinang City, Riau Islands Province. This research is qualitative research, informant from this research is swimming coach, organization committee, and athlete in Tanjungpinang City. Colecting data in this research were obtained by observation, interview, and documentation studies, while secondary data in this research through the document archive data held by swimming management and coach. Others informant will be added with snowball sampling. The result of this research showed that : (1) Qualification of swimming coaches in Tanjungpinang City is good enough and still need attentions, in quality needs to be improved again. (2) Conditions of swimming athletes in Tanjungpinang still not appropriate from ideal. (3) Supporting facilities of swimming sport in Tanjungpinang city looks very inadequate in quality and quantity, and must be managed spesifically (4) Performance of swimming sport organization in Tanjungpinang City is considered to provide support fairly well, while there is still work program that has not done well. It is suggeested to relate parties such as coach, athletes and organization committee to be able to pay attention for this four factors, to be a development of swimming sport in Tanjungpinang City can go according to plan.