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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 ...
Andrew's swims in 2021 at the 2020 Olympics made him the first swimmer to represent the United States at an Olympic Games in an individual breaststroke event as well as another individual event other than an individual medley in the then-125-year-history of swimming at the Summer Olympics. [7] He has won 78 medals at Swimming World Cup circuits ...
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. Currently, the Olympic program includes 14 individual events, and the World Championships program 17.
In every single swimming event, from the men’s 50-meter free to the women’s 400-meter IM, humans have shaved second after second off world-best times throughout and since the 20th century. The ...
He likened his mentality to that of Nathan Adrian, his relay teammate for his first two golds in 2016, one of the many U.S. Olympic swimming legends who helped others follow similar paths.
Katie Ledecky, five-time female World Swimmer of the Year Inge de Bruijn, the only Dutch female World Swimmer of the Year Natalie Coughlin, female world Swimmer of the Year in 2002 Grant Hackett, male World Swimmer of the Year in 2005 Leisel Jones, female World Swimmer of the Year in 2005 and 2006 Sun Yang is the 2013 male World Swimmer of the Year and a five-time male Pacific Rim Swimmer of ...
Sullivan qualified to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 1500-meter freestyle for the USA Olympic swimming team. [11] At the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, she won the silver medal in the 1500-meter freestyle with a time of 15:41.41, just 4.07 seconds behind gold medalist Katie Ledecky, on July 28, 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Center.
Widely considered the greatest sprint swimmer in history, Popov won gold in the 50-metre and 100 m freestyle at the 1992 Olympics and repeated the feat at the 1996 Olympics, and is the only male in Olympic games history to defend both titles. [4] He held the world record in the 50 m for eight years, and the 100 m for six.