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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."
The 200-metre individual medley is a race in competitive swimming in which swimmers compete in all 4 strokes (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle) in one race, with each leg being 50 metres in length. The stroke order is different to the team variant of this race.
200m backstroke: 1:51.92 WR: Aaron Peirsol United States: 31 July 2009: 2009 World Championships: Rome, Italy [3] 50m breaststroke: 25.95 sf, WR: Adam Peaty Great Britain 25 July 2017: 2017 World Championships: Budapest, Hungary [6] 100m breaststroke: 56.88 sf, WR: Adam Peaty Great Britain 21 July 2019: 2019 World Championships: Gwangju, South ...
Leon Marchand of France celebrates after setting a world record in the men’s 200m individual medley final during Day 2 of the World Swimming World Cup 2024 at the OCBC Aquatic Centre on Nov. 1 ...
Up to two swimmers per National Olympic Committee (NOC) can automatically qualify by swimming that time at an approved qualification event. The Olympic Selection Time is 1:59.97. Up to one swimmer per NOC meeting that time is eligible for selection, allocated by world ranking until the maximum quota for all swimming events is reached.
The men's 200 m has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 and the women's 200 m has been held continuously since its introduction at the 1948 Games. It is the most prestigious 200 m race at elite level. The competition format typically has three or four qualifying rounds leading to a final race between eight athletes.
INAS World Swimming Championships; Commonwealth Games, included as part of the swimming program, since 2002; World Para Swimming European Championships; Australian Swimming Championships, included as part of the swimming program as multi-class events, for example 2019 Australian Swimming Championships
Scott, the British record holder heading into the Games, finished an agonising 0.04 seconds behind to take the silver in a new personal best of 1:44.26. The pair's 1-2 finish represented the first British quinella in a pool event since the London Games in 1908. Swimming out of lane 8, Brazil's Fernando Scheffer was in second at the final turn ...