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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 ...
Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 [1] – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events.On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [2]
This is an overview of the men'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 swimming.
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 ...
After a rocky three years since his five-gold-medal splurge in Tokyo, he did not qualify to swim the 100 freestyle individually at these Olympics. But when Alexy and Guiliano beat him out at ...
Olympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [62] [63] 1500m freestyle: 15:20.48 Katie Ledecky United States 16 May 2018: TYR Pro Swim Series Indianapolis, United States [64] [65] 50m backstroke: 26.86 Kaylee McKeown Australia 20 October 2023: World Cup: Budapest, Hungary [66] 100m backstroke: 57.13 Regan Smith United States 18 June 2024: U.S. Olympic ...
It was the Olympics at its very, very best." [16] Mike Decourcy and Tom Gatto of Sporting News noted the two swimmers "joined the list of the hottest U.S.-Soviet/Russian head-to-heads in sports history." [17] As a result of her approach to the 2016 Summer Olympics and her rivalry with Yefimova, Pat Forde of Yahoo!
Not even the best swimmers in the world can hold their pee in the pool. “I’ve probably peed in every single pool I’ve swam in,” Olympic gold medalist Lilly King shared with the Wall Street ...