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men. Medley relay. 4 × 100 m. men. women. v. t. e. The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, however, she lost the 400-meter freestyle race to German swimmer Dagmar Hase, but she did win the 800-meter freestyle race later on. Evans ended her swimming career, for all practical purposes, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She did not win any medals, but she did add one more ...
Summary. After a world-record breaking victory in the 400 m freestyle two days earlier, U.S. distance ace Katie Ledecky pulled away from the field to capture the Olympic mid-distance freestyle crown and her second individual gold at these Games. Hanging with the leaders at the 150-metre turn, Ledecky fended off Sweden's Sarah Sjöström towards ...
Graphs of the progression of the World Records in all four strokes (50m, 100m and 200m distances). This is a history of the progression of the world record for the 200 metres freestyle swimming event. It is a listing of the fastest-times-ever swum in the event, in both long course (50m) and short course (25m) swimming pools.
PARIS — Summer McIntosh won the women’s 200-meter individual medley here at the 2024 Olympics on Saturday, coming from behind over the final 50 in one of the meet’s most loaded events ...
The medley relay races (4 × 100 metres) were not held for men or for women until 1960, but they have continued in every Games since then. Starting in 2008, both men and women compete in 10 km open water marathon swim events. The mixed 4 × 100 metres medley relay (2 women and 2 men) was added to the programme in the 2020 Olympic Games.
The 200 metres straight is a track and field outdoor event of 200 metres on a straight track. In the 1960s, the straight 200 metres was a separate world record event for men until IAAF deleted this variation from its list of official records. [ 1 ] The race was more common during the early to mid 20th century, when panhandle tracks, with 200 ...
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 ...