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The aim of this study was to determine the relationships between basic motor skills and 25m four different styles of swimming (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle) of 8-10 age group swimmers. 18 female (mean age: 9.00±0.84yrs; average height: 135.06±7.22cm; average weight: 32.80±7.22kg) and 18 male (mean age: 9.00±0.84yrs; average height: 136.06±7.22cm; average weight 34.91±7.68kg) swimmers from Istanbul Technical University Sports Club participated in this study voluntarily. On the first day, flamingo balance, sit-reach test, 20m sprint, standing long jump, sit-up test and 10x5m shuttle run of the swimmers were measured. On the second day, swimmers' 25m four different styles swimming times were recorded with stopwatch. The average test scores of the swimmers were analyzed according to gender and the relationship between motor skills and swimming times were analyzed by Pearson Correlation in SPSS 20.0 program. As a result, female swimmers had higher results than male swimmers in all tests except the long jump distance. There was statistically significant negative correlation between the distance of standing long jump and the data of sit-up test and 25m butterfly (r=-.600; -.659); backstroke (r=-.550; -.654); breaststroke (r=.-608; -.638) and freestyle (r=-.561; -.608) swimming times(p <0.05). In addition, statistically significant negative correlation was found between flamingo balance (right-left), 20m sprint and 10x5m shuttle run scores with 25m butterfly (r=.504; 552; .703; .710), backstroke (r=.468; . 539; .599; .688), breaststroke (r=.384; 429; .685; .777) and freestyle (r=.428; .322; .629; .625) swimming times (p <0.05). No significant relationship was found between sit-reach test and swimming times (p> 0.05).