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Of the 35 pool-based events, swimmers from the United States hold fifteen records, Australia five, France four, China, Canada and South Africa two each, and one each to Ireland, Great Britain, Russian Olympic Committee, Hungary, and Sweden. Nineteen of the current Olympic records were set at the 2024 Summer Olympics, seven in 2020, five in 2016 ...
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (men) List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (women) List of gold medalist relay teams in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships
4 All-time medal table – Swimming – Men – 1896–2024. ... indicates swimmer broke the World Record (and Olympic Record) 50 metre freestyle. Games Gold Silver
Records can be set in long course (50 metres) or short course (25 metres) swimming pools. World Aquatics recognizes world records in the following events for both men and women, [1] [2] except for the mixed relays, where teams consist of two men and two women, in any order. Freestyle: 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m; Backstroke: 50m, 100m, 200m
Times have consistently dropped over the years due to better training techniques, new developments in the sport and swimwear changes (e.g. goggles were not widely used until the 1970s, providing for considerable expansion of practice/training time). In the first four Olympics, competitions were not held in pools, but rather in open water (1896 ...
The 20 most decorated Olympic athletes of all time. Frank Olito. July 12, 2021 at 9:39 AM ... Cross-country skier Bjørn Dæhlie is considered one of the best winter Olympic athletes in history ...
This is a history of the 100 m backstroke world record as swum in both long-course (50 m; Olympic) pools and short-course (25 m) pools—the two categories recognized/tracked by FINA. Graphic data for World Record Progression in Men and Women Swimming 50m-100m-200m Long and Short Course Butterfly-Backstroke-Breaststroke-Freestyle
In what was considered one of the greatest Olympic races all-time, Warholm held off Benjamin in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics to win gold and post a record-breaking 45.94 seconds in the 400-meter finals. 2.