Olympic Swimming: Ian Thorpe, Michael Phelps, Grant Hackett, and Mark Spitz are considered as four legendry swimmers, who have won gold medal, swimming, and hold several Olympic records in swimming.
Swimming at the Summer Olympics became an important sport in 1896 with 100 meters and 1500 meters freestyle competitions for men. Women's swimming competition were included for the first time in the Olympics in the 1912 Games. Summer Games have 32 swimming races, 16 for men and 16 for women. From these 32 races, 26 are individual events and 6 are team or relay events. There are, in general, four competitive strokes or styles that are followed in swimming sports: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle, and individual medley for both men and women in different distances. In relay race, a swimming team competes in three relay distances – 200 meters, 400 meters, and 800 meters. The relays are the freestyle and the medley.
Decisions from several judges are taken into account before giving any swimming results. For example, starter judge checks the swimmers correct start, turn judge checks for the swimmers turns, strokes judge checks swimmers strokes, finish judge sees if the swimmer has touch the wall or not and the time keepers time the swims.
Ian Thorpe, Michael Phelps, Grant Hackett, and Mark Spitz are considered as four legendry swimmers, who have won gold medal, swimming, and hold several world records in swimming.
The current Olympic records in swimming in various men's events are as follows:
The current Olympic record in men's 50 meter freestyle swimming competition is held by Alexander Popov of Russia. His timing was 21.91 seconds. The record was made in the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games.
The current Olympic record in men's 100 meter freestyle swimming competition is held by Pieter Van Den Hoogenband of the Netherlands with a timing of 47.84 seconds. The record was made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.
Ian Thorpe of Australia holds Olympic records for both the events—men's 200 meter freestyle swimming and men's 400 meter freestyle swimming. He made the record in men's 200 meter freestyle swimming in the 2004 Athens Summer Games with a timing of 1:44.71 seconds. The record in the men's 400 meter freestyle swimming was made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games with a timing of 3:40.59 seconds.
Grant Hackett of Australia holds the Olympic record in men's 1500 meter freestyle swimming event. His timing was 14:43.40 seconds. He made the record in the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
The Olympic records in men's 100 meter and 200 meter backstroke swimming events are held by Aaron Peirsol of USA. Peirsol made both the records in the 2004 Athens Summer Games. His timing in the 100 meter backstroke swimming event was 53.45 seconds. In 200 meter backstroke swimming, he made a timing of 1:54.95 seconds.
Brendan Hansen of USA finished in a record time of 1:00.01 seconds in the event of men's 100 meter breaststroke in the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
The Olympic record in men's 200 meter breaststroke swimming event was made by Kosuke Kitajima of Japan in the 2004 Athens Summer Games. his timing for the event was 2:09.44 seconds.
Michael Phelps of USA made a series of Olympic records in swimming events in the 2004 Athens Summer Games. In men's 100 meter butterfly swimming event, Phelps' timing was 51.25 seconds, which was the new Olympic record in the event. He also finished in a record time of 1:54.04 seconds in the men's 200 meter butterfly swimming event. Phelps also made new Olympic records in men's 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley swimming events. He finished the 200 meter individual medley in 1:57.14 seconds creating a new Olympic record. In 400 meter individual medley event, his timing was 4:08.26 seconds.
South Africa holds the Olympic record in men's 4X100 meter freestyle relay swimming event with a timing of 3:13.17 seconds. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games. The members in the South African team were Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling.
The Olympic record in men's 4X200 meter freestyle relay was made by Australia in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games. Their timing was 7:07.05 seconds. Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim, Todd Pearson and Bill Kirby were the members of the Australian team.
The Olympic record in men's 4X 100 meter medley relay is held by the United States with a timing of 3:30.68 seconds. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games. The members of the USA team were Aaron Peirsol, Brenden Hansen, Ian Crocker and Jason Lezak.
The current Olympic swimming records in various events in women's swimming competition are as follows:
The Olympic record in women's 50 meter freestyle and 100 meter butterfly swimming events are held by Inge De Bruijn of Netherlands. She had a timing of 24.13 seconds in 50 meter freestyle event. In the 100 meter butterfly event, her timing was 56.61 seconds. The records were made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.
The Olympic record in women's 100 meter freestyle swimming event is held by Jodie Henry of Australia. She made the record timing of 53.52 seconds in the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
Heike Friedrich of East Germany made the record timing of 1:57.65 seconds in women's 200 meter freestyle swimming event in the 1988 Seoul Summer Games. This is the Olympic record in the event till the date.
Janet Evans of USA holds the Olympic record in women's 400 meter freestyle swimming event. Her timing in the event in the 1988 Seoul Summer Games was 4:03.85 seconds.
The Olympic record in women's 800 meter freestyle swimming event is held by Brooke Bennett of USA. Her timing was 8:19.67 seconds. The record was made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.
Natalie Coughlin of USA made a record timing of 59.68 seconds in women's 100 meter backstroke swimming event. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
Krisztina Egerszegi of Hungary holds the Olympic record in women's 200 meter backstroke swimming event. Her timing in the event in the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games was 2:07.06 seconds.
The Olympic record in women's 100 meter breaststroke swimming event is held by Xuejuan Luo of China. She made the record timing of 1:06.64 seconds in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.
Amanda Beard of USA made a record timing of 2:23.37 seconds in women's 200 meter breaststroke swimming event. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
Misty Hyman of USA made the record timing of 2:05.88 seconds in women's 200 meter butterfly swimming event. The record was made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.
Yana Klochkova of Ukraine holds the Olympic records in women's 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley swimming events. The records were made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games. in the 200 meter individual medley, Yana's timing was of 2:10.68 seconds. She made a record timing of 4:33.59 seconds in the 400 meter individual medley.
Australia holds the Olympic record in women's 4X100 meter freestyle relay swimming event with a timing of 3:35.94 seconds. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games. The members in the Australian team were Alice Mills, Lisbeth Lenton, Petria Thomas and Jodie Henry.
The Olympic record in women's 4X200 meter freestyle relay swimming event was made by USA in the 2004 Athens Summer Games. Their timing was 7:53.42 seconds. Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, dana Vollmer and Kaitlin Sandeno were the members of the United States' team.
The Olympic record in women's 4X 100 meter medley relay swimming event is held by Australia with a timing of 3:57.32 seconds. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games. The members of the Australian team were Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas and Jodie Henry.
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