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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 ...
Gold Silver Bronze 1988 Seoul details: Matt Biondi United States: 22.14 WR: Tom Jager United States: 22.36 Gennadiy Prigoda Soviet Union: 22.71 1992 Barcelona details: Alexander Popov Unified Team: 21.91 OR: Matt Biondi United States: 22.09 Tom Jager United States: 22.30 1996 Atlanta details: Alexander Popov Russia: 22.13 Gary Hall Jr. United ...
This is an overview of the men's swimming champions in individual events at the Olympics and the World Aquatics Championships. 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.
On August 2, 2012, Phelps won his 16th Olympic gold medal when he edged out Ryan Lochte to win the 200-meter individual medley with a time of 1:54.27, and by that victory also became the first male swimmer to win the same event in three consecutive Olympics. [214]
Pan Zhanle of China broke his own world record on the way to winning the men’s 100-meter freestyle Wednesday night, finishing in 46.40 seconds for his country's first swimming gold medal of the ...
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."
U.S. swimmers Caeleb Dressel, Hunter Armstrong, Chris Guiliano and Jack Alexy celebrate after winning the men's 4x100m freestyle relay on Saturday in Paris. (Photo by Sebastien Bozon/Getty Images ...
Gold: Aaron Peirsol: Swimming: Men's 200 m backstroke: August 19 Gold: Michael Phelps: Swimming: Men's 200 m individual medley: August 19 Gold: Amanda Beard: Swimming: Women's 200 m breaststroke: August 19 Gold: Matthew Emmons: Shooting: Men's 50 m rifle prone: August 20 Gold: Gary Hall Jr. Swimming: Men's 50 m freestyle: August 20 Gold ...