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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)
In 2022, Gould remains the only woman in history to have claimed five medals in solo events in swimming at a single Olympic Games. [4] Another 15-years-old, American Sandy Neilson, won three gold medals. The Olympic record was broken at least once in all 29 events. In 20 of those events, a new world record was set.
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 ...
Mary Coulter Montgomery (August 30, 1956 – August 24, 2017) was an American competition swimmer who won a silver medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1975 Pan American Games. She competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the 400-meter individual medley , finishing sixth with a time of 5:09.98.
Swimming: Women's 100 m breaststroke: September 2 Gold: Mark Spitz: Swimming: Men's 100 m freestyle: September 3 Gold: Keena Rothhammer: Swimming: Women's 800 m freestyle: September 3 Gold: Susie Atwood Shirley Babashoff Melissa Belote Cathy Carr Deena Deardurff Judy Melick Sandy Neilson Dana Shrader: Swimming: Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay ...