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Great Britain (GBR) William Foster Thomas Battersby Jack Hatfield Henry Taylor. United States (USA) Perry McGillivray Pua Kealoha Norman Ross Duke Kahanamoku. Australia (AUS) Henry Hay William Herald Ivan Stedman Frank Beaurepaire. Great Britain (GBR) Leslie Savage Percy Peter Henry Taylor Harold Annison.
Women. List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (women) This article includes a sports people-related list of lists. Categories: Lists of sports people lists. Swimming at the Summer Olympics.
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 Olympics and World Aquatics Championships ...
China (CHN) Wan Letian. Tang Qianting. Zhang Yufei. Yang Junxuan. Wang Xue'er. Yu Yiting. Wu Qingfeng. Note: since 1984, swimmers who swam only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
In the freestyle, swimmers originally dove from the pool walls, but diving blocks were first incorporated at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The flip-turn was developed by the 1950s. Swimming goggles were first allowed in 1976. The butterfly stroke events were not held until 1956. Previous rules permitted the butterfly stroke in breaststroke races.
Of the 35 pool-based events, swimmers from the United States hold fifteen records, Australia five, France four, China, Canada and South Africa two each, and one each to Ireland, Great Britain, Russian Olympic Committee, Hungary, and Sweden. Nineteen of the current Olympic records were set at the 2024 Summer Olympics, seven in 2020, five in 2016 ...
Mark Spitz. Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold medals, each in world-record time. This achievement set a record that lasted for 36 years, until it was surpassed by fellow ...
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.