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A 100-metre pool was built for the 1908 Olympics and sat in the centre of the main stadium's track and field oval. The 1912 Olympics, held in the Stockholm harbour, marked the beginning of electronic timing. Male swimmers wore full body suits up until the 1940s, which caused more drag in the water than their modern swim-wear counterparts.
2018 TYR Pro Swim Series May 17, 2018 / Indianapolis: 800 free: 8:04.79 + Katie Ledecky (USA) 2016 Olympic Games August 12, 2016 / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 8:06.68 Katie Ledecky (Nations Capital) 2016 Arena Pro Swim Series January 17, 2016 / Austin, Texas: 1500 free: 15:20.48 + Katie Ledecky (USA) 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series May 16, 2018 ...
the race was 100 yards, not 100 meters: London 1908 Charles Daniels 1:05.6 Stockholm 1912 Duke Kahanamoku 1:03.4 Antwerp 1920 Duke Kahanamoku 1:01.4 Paris 1924 Johnny Weissmuller 59.0 Amsterdam 1928 Johnny Weissmuller 58.6 Los Angeles 1932 Yasuji Miyazaki 58.2 [5] Berlin 1936 Ferenc Csik 57.6 [5]
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]
19-year-old swimming phenom Pan Zhanle set a new world record in the men’s 100m freestyle at the World Championships in Doha Sunday
Men's 4×50m freestyle: 100-119 120-159 1:34.09 Maksim Kruk Ilya Kavalionak Pavel Lagoun Pavel Zinkevich Belarus Zubr 12 February 1979: 36 years, 183 days: 14 August 2015 World Championships: Kazan, Russia [57] 160-199 1:34.92 Aleksandr Shilin (24.36) Sergei Medvedev (23.75) Aleksei Manzhula (22.79) Vladimir Predkin (24.02) Russia Neva Stars 31 ...
Loyola’s Rex Maurer has done it. 4:12:70 in the boys’ 500 freestyle at the Southern Section swim finals. ... the Division II record in the girls’ 100-yard freestyle with a time of 48.85 ...
Emmy Zimmer, 13, broke the ACAC girls 13-14 record in the 50 yard freestyle, swimming the event in 24.55 seconds and taking 5th place in finals. She also made finals in the 100 yard backstroke ...