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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 ...
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.
However, their official name remained 2020 Summer Olympics with swimming events set for 24 July–1 August 2021 [1] and marathon swimming set for 4–5 August 2021. [ 2 ] Swimming featured a record total of 37 events (18 for each gender and 1 mixed), with the addition of the men's 800 m freestyle, women's 1500 m freestyle, and the mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay.
Michael Fred Phelps II[ 5] OLY (born June 30, 1985) [ 6] is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time [ 7] with a total of 28 medals. [ 8] Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), [ 9] Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in ...
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.
The USA Olympic Swimming Trials are being held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis from June 15-23. Top performers from this week will compete in the Paris Olympics from July 27-Aug. 4.
4 × 100 m. men. women. v. t. e. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, 31 swimming events were contested. There was a total of 641 participants from 92 countries competing. [ 1][ 2]
The swimming program for 1988 included two new events, the men's and women's 50 m freestyle, bringing the total number of events to 31. The following events were contested: Freestyle: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m (women), 1500 m (men), Backstroke: 100 m, 200 m. Breaststroke: 100 m, 200 m. Butterfly: 100 m, 200 m.