List of Olympic records in swimming

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Michael Phelps holds five individual and three team Olympic swimming records.

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.

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[edit] Men's records

César Cielo Filho
Ian Thorpe

♦ 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  Cielo Filho, CésarCésar Cielo Filho  Brazil (BRA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-16 August 16, 2008 [6]
100 m freestyle 47.05  Sullivan, EamonEamon Sullivan  Australia (AUS) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-13 August 13, 2008 [A]
200 m freestyle 1:42.96  Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-12 August 12, 2008 [7]
400 m freestyle 3:40.59  Thorpe, IanIan Thorpe  Australia (AUS) 2000 Sydney 02000-09-16 September 16, 2000 [4]
1500 m freestyle 14:38.92  Hackett, GrantGrant Hackett  Australia (AUS) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-15 August 15, 2008 [8][B]
100 m backstroke 52.54  Peirsol, AaronAaron Peirsol  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-12 August 12, 2008 [9]
200 m backstroke 1:53.94  Lochte, RyanRyan Lochte  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-15 August 15, 2008 [10]
100 m breaststroke 58.91  Kitajima, KōsukeKōsuke Kitajima  Japan (JPN) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-11 August 11, 2008
200 m breaststroke 2:07.64  Kitajima, KōsukeKōsuke Kitajima  Japan (JPN) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-14 August 14, 2008 [11]
100 m butterfly 50.58  Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-16 August 16, 2008 [12]
200 m butterfly 1:52.03  Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-13 August 13, 2008 [13]
200 m individual medley 1:54.23  Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-15 August 15, 2008 [10]
400 m individual medley ♦4:03.84  Phelps, MichaelMichael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-14 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 02008-08-11 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 02008-08-13 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 02008-08-17 August 17, 2008 [16]

[edit] Women's records

Inge de Bruijn
Rebecca Adlington
Marleen Veldhuis

♦ 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  Steffen, BrittaBritta Steffen  Germany (GER) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-17 August 17, 2008
100 m freestyle 53.12  Steffen, BrittaBritta Steffen  Germany (GER) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-15 August 15, 2008 [17]
200 m freestyle 1:54.82  Pellegrini, FedericaFederica Pellegrini  Italy (ITA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-13 August 13, 2008
400 m freestyle 4:02.19  Pellegrini, FedericaFederica Pellegrini  Italy (ITA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-10 August 10, 2008 [18]
800 m freestyle ♦8:14.10  Adlington, RebeccaRebecca Adlington  Great Britain (GBR) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-16 August 16, 2008 [19]
100 m backstroke 58.77  Coventry, KirstyKirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe (ZIM) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-11 August 11, 2008 [C]
200 m backstroke 2:05.24  Coventry, KirstyKirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe (ZIM) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-16 August 16, 2008 [20]
100 m breaststroke 1:05.17  Jones, LeiselLeisel Jones  Australia (AUS) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-10 August 10, 2008 [21][D]
200 m breaststroke 2:20.22  Soni, RebeccaRebecca Soni  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-15 August 15, 2008 [22]
100 m butterfly 56.61  Bruijn, Inge deInge de Bruijn  Netherlands (NED) 2000 Sydney 02000-09-17 September 17, 2000 [5]
200 m butterfly 2:04.18  Zige, LiuLiu Zige  China (CHN) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-14 August 14, 2008 [23]
200 m individual medley 2:08.45  Rice, StephanieStephanie Rice  Australia (AUS) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-13 August 13, 2008 [24]
400 m individual medley ♦4:29.45  Rice, StephanieStephanie Rice  Australia (AUS) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-10 August 10, 2008 [25]
4×100 m freestyle relay 3:33.76  Dekker, IngeInge Dekker (54.37)
Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.39)
Femke Heemskerk (53.42)
Marleen Veldhuis (52.58)		  Netherlands (NED) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-10 August 10, 2008 [26]
4×200 m freestyle relay 7:44.31  Rice, StephanieStephanie Rice (1:56.60)
Bronte Barratt (1:56.58)
Kylie Palmer (1:55.22)
Linda Mackenzie (1:55.91)		  Australia (AUS) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-14 August 14, 2008 [27]
4×100 m medley relay 3:52.69  Seebohm, EmilyEmily Seebohm (59.33)
Leisel Jones (1:04.58)
Jessicah Schipper (56.25)
Libby Trickett (52.53)		  Australia (AUS) 2008 Beijing 02008-08-17 August 17, 2008 [28]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Coventry broke the Olympic record for the women's 100 m backstroke in the second semifinal of the 2008 Summer Olympics.[29]
  2. ^ 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]
  3. ^ 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]
  4. ^ Sullivan broke the Olympic and world record for the men's 100 m freestyle in the second semifinal of the 2008 Summer Olympics.[29]

[edit] References

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  17. ^ "Swimming - 100m freestyle - Progression". Official website of the Olympic Movement. http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/records/results_uk.asp?DIS_S_CODE=SW&GET_C_ID=W&GET_C_OL=1&GET_C_WO=&EVT_S_CODE=011&RESULT=TRUE. Retrieved 2008-09-07. 
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