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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 ...
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
On 25 July 2013, FINA Technical Swimming Congress voted to allow world records in the long course mixed 400 free relay and mixed 400 medley relay, as well as in six events in short course meters: the mixed 200 medley and 200 free relays, as well as the men's and women's 200 free relays and the men's and women's 200 medley relays. [6]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is the complete list of men's World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming from 1973 to 2024. [1] [2 ...
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.
t. e. The swimming competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were due to take place from 25 July to 6 August 2020 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the games were postponed to 2021. However, their official name remained 2020 Summer Olympics with swimming events set for 24 July–1 August 2021 [ 1] and ...
Katie Ledecky. Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky ( / ləˈdɛki / lə-DEK-ee; born March 17, 1997) [ 6] is an American competitive swimmer. She has won nine Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer. With 14 medals and 9 gold medals, she is also the most decorated American woman, most decorated ...
Yohann Ndoye-Brouard. Léon Marchand. Maxime Grousset. Florent Manaudou. Clément Secchi. Rafael Fente-Damers. Note: Since 1992, relay swimmers who swam in the preliminary rounds, but not the event final, have also received medals when their team finished among the top three in the final.