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The International Olympic Committee recognises the fastest performances in pool-based swimming events at the Olympic Games. Men's swimming has been part of the official program of the Summer Olympics since the Games' modern inception in 1896; it was not until 1912 that women's events were held.
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) 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 ...
The world records in swimming are ratified by World Aquatics (formerly known as FINA), the international governing body of swimming. 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 ...
This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in swimming. ... (and Olympic Record) 50 metre freestyle. Games Gold Silver Bronze 1988 Seoul details:
His records and accomplishments in the pool speak for themselves, as his 23 gold medals are the most an individual Olympian has ever won in the history of the Olympics.
Nashville native Gretchen Walsh set an Olympic record Saturday while swimming for Team USA at the Paris Summer Games.. Walsh, a 21-year-old Harpeth Hall graduate, swam the women's 100-meter ...
In the first four Olympics, competitions were not held in pools, but rather in open water (1896, the Mediterranean Sea; 1900, the Seine; 1904, an artificial lake; 1906, the Mediterranean). The 1904 Olympics ' races were the only ones ever measured in yards, instead of the usual metres.
One heads into the 2024 Paris Olympics a world record holder. ... Her time of 55.18 seconds in the butterfly semifinals at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis in late June is a world ...