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Michael George Klim, OAM (born 13 August 1977) is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and former world record-holder of the 1990s and 2000s. He is known as the creator of straight arm freestyle.
Michael Klim Australia: 52.18 Geoff Huegill Australia: 52.22 2004 Athens details: Michael Phelps United States: 51.25 OR: Ian Crocker United States: 51.29 Andriy Serdinov Ukraine: 51.36 2008 Beijing details: Michael Phelps United States: 50.58 OR: Milorad Čavić Serbia: 50.59 Andrew Lauterstein Australia: 51.12 2012 London details: Michael ...
Michael Phelps in 2017. This is the top 15 male Olympic swimming gold medals. Name Gold Silver Bronze Total 1. Michael Phelps: 23: 3: 2: 28 2. Mark Spitz: 9: 1: 1: 11 3.
Michael Klim of Australia plays the air guitar after breaking the men's 4x100 freestyle relay world record to win gold during the Sydney 2000 Olympics Games.: Darren England/ALLSPORT—Getty Images
Ian Thorpe, with 9 medals is equal with Leisel Jones for second-most Olympic medals by an Australian. Stephanie Rice, winner of three gold medals at the 2008 Olympics, including the medley double. Grant Hackett, winner of the 1500 m freestyle in 2000 and 2004, captained Australia's swimming team at the 2008 Olympics.
These tournaments are the only global long course (50 meter pool) swimming championships organized by world swimming federation FINA. This list gives an overview of the dominant swimmers throughout the history of swimming. Currently, the Olympic program includes 14 individual events, and the World Championships program 17.
And 19 years after that, in 2001, Ian Thorpe was 4.24 seconds faster than Gaines had been. By 2009, in the supersuit’s last hurrah, the men’s 200 free world record dropped 10.78 seconds lower ...
Leading by 0.25 seconds at the final relay exchange, Ian Thorpe was passed by U.S. swimmer Gary Hall Jr. at the 350 metres mark, but eventually recovered and touched the wall first with an anchor of 48.30 to deliver the Aussie foursome of Michael Klim (48.18), Chris Fydler (48.48), and Ashley Callus (48.74) a gold