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List of Olympic medalists in swimming (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; List of top Olympic gold medalists in swimming; Swimming at the Summer Olympics
This is an overview of the women'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 ...
This is the top 15 male Olympic swimming gold medals. Name Gold Silver Bronze Total 1. Michael Phelps: 23: 3: 2: 28 2. ... List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (women) This article includes a sports people-related list of lists .
Although Babashoff never won an individual gold medal in Olympic competition, she is still regarded as one of the top swimmers in history, and is most vividly remembered for having swum the anchor leg on the gold-medal winning 4×100-meter freestyle relay team, in its victory over the doped up, steroid-plagued 1976 East German women, in what is ...
Demonstrating unusual dominance in freestyle distance, Meyer set world records in the 200-meter, and 800-meter freestyle swimming events at the 1968 U.S. Olympics trials. As the first woman swimmer to participate in the 800-meter Olympic event, Meyer opened the doors for women to compete in events that had been closed to them and demonstrated ...
Karen Lynne Moras OAM (born 6 January 1954), also known by her married name Karen Stephenson, is an Australian distance freestyle swimmer of the 1960s and 1970s who won a bronze medal in the 400-metre freestyle at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Although she set multiple world records she peaked between Olympics and was unable to capture gold at ...
[2] [3] She became the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in the breaststroke. [1] When Mexico City hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics, Kolb won two gold medals. She dominated her competition in the medley events, winning both the women's 200-meter individual medley (2:24.7) and women's 400-meter individual medley (5:08.5).