Modern Era

Phelps won six golds at Athens 2004 and eight at Beijing 2008, breaking Mark Spitz single Games record. His 2008 program included ...

Ledecky won her first Olympic gold at London 2012 at age 15, then dominated distance freestyle for over a decade. She has held wor...

Popovici announced himself at Tokyo 2020 with a fourth place at 16, then won the 100 and 200 m freestyle at the 2022 world champio...

Dressel won six golds at the 2019 world championships, then five golds at Tokyo 2020 including the 50 m and 100 m freestyle and 10...

Peaty broke the 58 second barrier in 2015 and lowered the world record to 56.88 at the 2019 world championships, a margin over riv...

Sjostrom won world championship golds across butterfly and freestyle in a senior international career stretching from 2008 to 2024...

Hosszu won the 100 m backstroke, 200 m IM and 400 m IM at Rio 2016, the latter in a world record, earning the nickname Iron Lady f...

Sun won the 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at London 2012, the 200 m at Rio 2016, and set the 1500 m world record of 14:31.02 that rem...

Titmus won the 200 m and 400 m freestyle at Tokyo 2020, dethroning Ledecky in the 400, and defended the world 400 m title in 2022 ...

McKeon won the 50 m and 100 m freestyle plus two relays at Tokyo 2020, adding three bronze medals for seven in total, the most by ...

Marchand won the 200 m butterfly, 200 m breaststroke, 200 m IM and 400 m IM in Paris, four individual golds at a single Games in f...

Pan set 46.40 in the Paris 2024 final, taking more than four tenths off his own world mark and winning by a wide margin at age 19....

McIntosh won the 200 m butterfly, 200 m IM and 400 m IM at Paris 2024, setting a 400 m IM world record of 4:25.87 earlier that yea...

The Water Cube wrapped the 2008 Olympic pool in ETFE bubble cushions that glow at night, and its deep, wide gutters contributed to...

The London Aquatics Centre carried a sweeping roofline by Zaha Hadid over two 50 m pools and a diving well, built for 2012 with te...

The Tokyo Aquatics Centre rose in the Ariake district as a permanent 50 m venue for the postponed 2020 Games, seating around 15,00...

The Maria Lenk park hosted diving, water polo and synchronized swimming at Rio 2016 in an outdoor setting close to the Barra clust...

The vast La Defense Arena, home of Racing 92 rugby, was emptied and fitted with temporary pools for the 2024 Olympic swimming and ...

Australian Trent Grimsey crossed from England to France in 6 hours 55 minutes in September 2012, becoming the fastest swim of the ...

Australian Chloe McCardel completed her 44th English Channel crossing in 2023, passing the previous record of 34 held by Kevin Mur...

Diana Nyad reached Key West in September 2013 after about 53 hours in the water from Havana, swimming without a shark cage or wets...

Popovici clocked 46.86 in Rome in August 2022, becoming the first man under 47 seconds for the 100 m freestyle. The record stood u...

The Oceans Seven comprises the North Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the...

An official ice mile requires a 1.6 km swim in water at 5 degrees or below wearing only a standard costume, cap and goggles, witne...

Lochte won 12 Olympic medals between 2004 and 2016, six of them gold, often finishing just behind Michael Phelps. His 1:54.00 in t...

Pellegrini won the 200 m freestyle at Beijing 2008 in world record time and the following year at the World Championships in Rome ...

Adlington won the 400 m and 800 m freestyle at the 2008 Olympics, the first British swimmer to win two Olympic golds at one Games ...

Franklin won the 100 m and 200 m backstroke at the 2012 Olympics, setting a world record in the 200 m, and added two relay golds. ...

Campbell was the fastest woman in the world over 100 m freestyle for several seasons and set a world record of 52.06 in 2016. She ...

Meilutyte, who trained in England as a teenager, won the 100 m breaststroke at the 2012 Olympics, the first Olympic swimming gold ...

Mellouli won the 1500 m freestyle at Beijing 2008, the first Olympic swimming gold for Tunisia. Four years later he took bronze in...

Chalmers came from seventh at the turn to win the 100 m freestyle at the 2016 Olympics, the first Australian man to win the event ...

The French team were favorites after Alain Bernard predicted they would smash the Americans. On the anchor leg Jason Lezak trailed...

The Duna Arena opened on the bank of the Danube in Budapest in 2017 to host the world championships that year, and it staged the e...