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International Olympic Committee results database; Wallechinsky, David (2000). The complete book of the Summer Olympics – Sydney 2000 edition. New York: Overlook Press. ISBN 1-58567-033-2. HistoFINA Swimming Medallists And Statistics At Olympic Games, January 31, 2015
Name Gold Silver Bronze Total 1. Michael Phelps: 23: 3: 2: 28 2. Mark Spitz: 9: 1: 1: 11 3. ... This is the top 15 female Olympic swimming gold medalists: Name Gold ...
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 ...
Ledecky won her second gold medal of the Olympics and her seventh of all time in the 800-meter freestyle. Her six individual gold medals are the most of any female Olympic swimmer and female US Olympian, and the second-most of all Olympic swimmers behind Michael Phelps. She became the first swimmer to win a distance event three times in a row ...
McIntosh announced herself as perhaps the finest female swimmer on the planet. Paris Olympics: 17-year-old Summer McIntosh wins gold in 400 IM; Katie Grimes takes silver for U.S. [Video] Skip to ...
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 ...
Swimming: Women's 100 m breaststroke: September 18 Gold: Tom Malchow: Swimming: Men's 200 m butterfly: September 19 Gold: Misty Hyman: Swimming: Women's 200 m butterfly: September 19 Gold: Samantha Arsenault Lindsay Benko Kim Black* Diana Munz Julia Stowers* Jenny Thompson: Swimming: Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay: September 19 Gold: Marty ...
Men's swimming has been part of the official program of the Summer Olympics since the Games' modern inception in 1896; it was not until 1912 that women's events were held. 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 ...