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The 1904 Olympics freestyle race was the only one ever measured at 100 yards, instead of the usual 100 metres. A 100-metre pool was built for the 1908 Olympics and sat in the centre of the main stadium's track and field oval. The 1912 Olympics, held in the Stockholm harbour, marked the beginning of electronic timing.
Australian Dawn Fraser won the event a record three times at the Olympics, and she is the only woman to win it more than once. Four men, American Duke Kahanamoku, Weissmuller, Russian Alexander Popov, and Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband won the event at the Olympics twice. Popov was also world champion (held since 1973) three times.
It was the first world record to be broken in the pool at these Paris Olympic Games. The first-time Olympian posted a 46.40, shaving .40 seconds off the previous world record 46.80 he set earlier ...
Katie Ledecky holds Olympic records in the 400, 800, and 1500 m freestyle events Emma McKeon holds Olympic records in one individual and one relay event. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record.
Pan Zhanle of China broke his own world record on the way to winning the men’s 100-meter freestyle Wednesday night, finishing in 46.40 seconds for his country's first swimming gold medal of the ...
100m freestyle: 47.27 Brent Hayden Canada 30 July 2009: World Championships: Rome, Italy [2] 200m freestyle: 1:46.40 h: Brent Hayden Canada 10 August 2008: Olympic Games: Beijing, China [citation needed] 400m freestyle: 3:43.46 Ryan Cochrane Canada 24 July 2014: Commonwealth Games: Glasgow, United Kingdom [3] 800m freestyle: 7:41.86 Ryan ...
50m freestyle: 21.06 OC: Cameron McEvoy Australia 29 July 2023: World Championships: Fukuoka, Japan [1] 100m freestyle: 47.04 OC: Cameron McEvoy Australia 11 April 2016: Australian Championships: Adelaide, Australia [2] 200m freestyle: 1:44.06 OC: Ian Thorpe Australia 25 July 2001: World Championships: Fukuoka, Japan [3] 400m freestyle: 3:40.08 ...
The event has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1900 (when the shortest freestyle was the 200 metres), though the 1904 version was measured in yards rather than metres. [ 2 ] Three of the eight finalists from the 1968 Games returned: gold medalist Michael Wenden of Australia, bronze medalist Mark Spitz of the United States, and sixth ...