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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."
On 25 July 2013, FINA Technical Swimming Congress voted to allow world records in the long course mixed 400 free relay and mixed 400 medley relay, as well as in six events in short course metres: the mixed 200 medley and 200 free relays, as well as the men's and women's 200 free relays and the men's and women's 200 medley relays. [6]
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 ...
Male swimmers wore full body suits up until the 1940s, which caused more drag in the water than their modern swim-wear counterparts. Also, over the years, pool designs have lessened the drag. Some design considerations allow for the reduction of swimming resistance making the pool faster. Namely, proper pool depth, elimination of currents ...
I guess we just expect to come out here and swim fast like (other teams) did before us. Lexington's Ivan Pykhodko swims the breaststroke leg of the 200 medley relay.
2019 International Swimming League December 20, 2019 / Las Vegas, Nevada: 100 breast: 55.56 [18] Nic Fink (Cali Condors) 2021 International Swimming League December 4, 2021 / Eindhoven, Netherlands: 55.92 Adam Peaty (London Roar) 2019 International Swimming League December 21, 2019 / Las Vegas, Nevada: 200 breast: 2:01.60 Nic Fink (USA)