- List of Olympic records in swimming
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The International Olympic Committee recognises the fastest performances in pool-based swimming events at the Olympic Games. Men's swimming has been part of the Summer Olympics since the Games' modern inception in 1896; it was not until 1912 that women competed against each other. The swimming events at the 1896 Olympic Games were held in a bay in the Aegean Sea with swimmers being required to swim to the shore—Hungarian swimmer Alfréd Hajós won two gold medals that year, saying "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win."[1] The 1900 Games in Paris saw the swimming events take place in the River Seine while the 1908 events were hosted in a 100 m pool located within an athletics track in the White City Stadium in London.[2]
Races are held in four swimming strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly, over varying distances and in either individual or relay race events. In the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, both men and women competed in sixteen events in the pool, each sex in the same events with the exceptions of the 800 m freestyle (women-only) and the 1500 m freestyle (men-only).[2] Olympic records were broken on a total of 66 occasions,[3] eventually leaving just two outstanding from earlier Games – Australian Ian Thorpe's record in the 400 m freestyle and Dutch Inge de Bruijn's 100 m butterfly record, both from the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia.[4][5] Of the 32 pool-based events, swimmers from the United States hold eleven records, Australia eight, two each to Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, and Zimbabwe, and one each to Brazil, China and Great Britain.
Contents
Men's records
♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of the end of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China and include only those events which are currently recognised by the IOC as Olympic events.
Event Record Name Nation Games Date Ref 50 m freestyle 21.30 César Cielo Filho Brazil (BRA)
2008 Beijing August 16, 2008 [6] 100 m freestyle 47.05 Eamon Sullivan Australia (AUS)
2008 Beijing August 13, 2008 [A] 200 m freestyle 1:42.96 Michael Phelps United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 12, 2008 [7] 400 m freestyle 3:40.59 Ian Thorpe Australia (AUS)
2000 Sydney September 16, 2000 [4] 1500 m freestyle 14:38.92 Grant Hackett Australia (AUS)
2008 Beijing August 15, 2008 [8][B] 100 m backstroke 52.54 Aaron Peirsol United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 12, 2008 [9] 200 m backstroke 1:53.94 Ryan Lochte United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 15, 2008 [10] 100 m breaststroke 58.91 Kōsuke Kitajima Japan (JPN)
2008 Beijing August 11, 2008 200 m breaststroke 2:07.64 Kōsuke Kitajima Japan (JPN)
2008 Beijing August 14, 2008 [11] 100 m butterfly 50.58 Michael Phelps United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 16, 2008 [12] 200 m butterfly 1:52.03 Michael Phelps United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 13, 2008 [13] 200 m individual medley 1:54.23 Michael Phelps United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 15, 2008 [10] 400 m individual medley ♦4:03.84 Michael Phelps United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 14, 2008 [14] 4×100 m freestyle relay ♦3:08.24 Michael Phelps (47.51)
Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02)
Cullen Jones (47.65)
Jason Lezak (46.06)United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 11, 2008 [15] 4×200 m freestyle relay 6:58.56 Michael Phelps (1:43.31)
Ryan Lochte (1:44.28)
Ricky Berens (1:46.29)
Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.68)United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 13, 2008 [10] 4×100 m medley relay 3:29.34 Aaron Peirsol (53.16)
Brendan Hansen (59.27)
Michael Phelps (50.15)
Jason Lezak (46.76)United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 17, 2008 [16] Women's records
Rebecca Adlington♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of the end of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China and include only those events which are currently recognised by the IOC as Olympic events.
Event Record Name Nation Games Date Ref 50 m freestyle 24.06 Britta Steffen Germany (GER)
2008 Beijing August 17, 2008 100 m freestyle 53.12 Britta Steffen Germany (GER)
2008 Beijing August 15, 2008 [17] 200 m freestyle 1:54.82 Federica Pellegrini Italy (ITA)
2008 Beijing August 13, 2008 400 m freestyle 4:02.19 Federica Pellegrini Italy (ITA)
2008 Beijing August 10, 2008 [18] 800 m freestyle ♦8:14.10 Rebecca Adlington Great Britain (GBR)
2008 Beijing August 16, 2008 [19] 100 m backstroke 58.77 Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe (ZIM)
2008 Beijing August 11, 2008 [C] 200 m backstroke 2:05.24 Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe (ZIM)
2008 Beijing August 16, 2008 [20] 100 m breaststroke 1:05.17 Leisel Jones Australia (AUS)
2008 Beijing August 10, 2008 [21][D] 200 m breaststroke 2:20.22 Rebecca Soni United States (USA)
2008 Beijing August 15, 2008 [22] 100 m butterfly 56.61 Inge de Bruijn Netherlands (NED)
2000 Sydney September 17, 2000 [5] 200 m butterfly 2:04.18 Liu Zige China (CHN)
2008 Beijing August 14, 2008 [23] 200 m individual medley 2:08.45 Stephanie Rice Australia (AUS)
2008 Beijing August 13, 2008 [24] 400 m individual medley ♦4:29.45 Stephanie Rice Australia (AUS)
2008 Beijing August 10, 2008 [25] 4×100 m freestyle relay 3:33.76 Inge Dekker (54.37)
Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.39)
Femke Heemskerk (53.42)
Marleen Veldhuis (52.58)Netherlands (NED)
2008 Beijing August 10, 2008 [26] 4×200 m freestyle relay 7:44.31 Stephanie Rice (1:56.60)
Bronte Barratt (1:56.58)
Kylie Palmer (1:55.22)
Linda Mackenzie (1:55.91)Australia (AUS)
2008 Beijing August 14, 2008 [27] 4×100 m medley relay 3:52.69 Emily Seebohm (59.33)
Leisel Jones (1:04.58)
Jessicah Schipper (56.25)
Libby Trickett (52.53)Australia (AUS)
2008 Beijing August 17, 2008 [28] Footnotes
- ^ Coventry broke the Olympic record for the women's 100 m backstroke in the second semifinal of the 2008 Summer Olympics.[29]
- ^ Hackett broke the Olympic record for the men's 1500 m freestyle in heat 5 of the qualifying round of the 2008 Summer Olympics.[29]
- ^ Jones broke the Olympic record for the women's 100 m breaststroke in heat 7 of the qualifying round of the 2008 Summer Olympics.[29]
- ^ Sullivan broke the Olympic and world record for the men's 100 m freestyle in the second semifinal of the 2008 Summer Olympics.[29]
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