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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
2:25.2 Zoltán Halmay Hungary: 2:31.4 Karl Ruberl Austria: 2:32.0 set OR in semifinal: 1904–1964: not included in the Olympic program: 1968 Mexico City details: Michael Wenden Australia: 1:55.2 OR: Don Schollander United States: 1:55.8 John Nelson United States: 1:58.1 1972 Munich details: Mark Spitz United States: 1:52.78 WR: Steve Genter ...
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) 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 ...
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. Currently, the Olympic program includes 14 individual events, and the World Championships program 17.
1.2 Mixed Team. 2 Discontinued ... This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in Artistic Swimming ... "Results database". International Olympic Committee
In the first four Olympics, competitions were not held in pools, but rather in open water (1896, the Mediterranean Sea; 1900, the Seine; 1904, an artificial lake; 1906, the Mediterranean). The 1904 Olympics ' races were the only ones ever measured in yards, instead of the usual metres.
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.
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 two gold medals that year, saying "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win."