Swimmer

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

Spitz entered seven events at Munich and won all seven, each as a world record, a single Games mark that stood until Michael Phelp...

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

Thorpe won the 1998 world title in Perth at 15 and three golds at Sydney 2000, including the 400 m freestyle in front of a home cr...

Egerszegi won the 200 m backstroke at Seoul 1988 at age 14, the youngest Olympic swimming champion in history, and defended the ti...

Fraser won the 100 m freestyle at Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964, the first swimmer of either sex to win the same event ...

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...

Weissmuller broke the one minute barrier with 58.6 in 1922 and won five Olympic golds across Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928, remain...

Ederle swam from France to England in 1926 wearing a two piece suit and grease, beating the existing mens record by nearly ten hou...

Schollander won the 100 m freestyle and 400 m freestyle plus two relays in Tokyo, setting the single Games benchmark Mark Spitz an...

Gould won three golds, a silver and a bronze at Munich 1972 at age 15, setting a world record in each gold swim. In 1971 and 1972 ...

Ender won the 100 m and 200 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly and a relay at Montreal, each in world record time, after two silvers at ...

Salnikov clocked 14:58.27 at the 1980 Moscow Games to break the 15 minute barrier, adding the 400 m freestyle title in the same me...

Biondi won five golds at Seoul 1988 including the 50 m and 100 m freestyle, and was the first man under 49 seconds for the 100 m. ...

Evans won the 400 m and 800 m freestyle at Seoul 1988 and defended the 800 m at Barcelona 1992, using an unconventional straight a...

Popov won both sprint titles at Barcelona 1992 and defended both at Atlanta 1996, a feat no other male sprinter matched in that er...

Van den Hoogenband set a world record of 47.84 in the Sydney 100 m semifinal, then beat Ian Thorpe in the 200 m final in an electr...

De Bruijn won the 50 m and 100 m freestyle and 100 m butterfly at Sydney 2000, setting world records in all three. She added the 5...

Hackett won the 1500 m at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 and set 14:34.56 at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, a record that s...

Gross won the 200 m freestyle and 200 m butterfly at Los Angeles 1984 and a relay gold at Seoul 1988, with six Olympic medals in t...

Caulkins won 48 American national titles and set American records in all four strokes plus the IMs, a versatility no swimmer match...

Meagher, nicknamed Madame Butterfly, set 2:05.96 in 1981, a record that stood until 2000. She won the 100 m and 200 m butterfly at...

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...

Gaines was the top sprinter of 1980 when the American boycott removed his best shot, including world records in the 100 m freestyl...

Konrads arrived in Australia as a Latvian refugee infant and rose to set world records across freestyle distances in 1958 at age 1...

Rose won the 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at Melbourne 1956 at age 17 and defended the 400 m at Rome 1960, adding relay golds for fo...

Matthes won the 100 m and 200 m backstroke at both Mexico City 1968 and Munich 1972, defending both titles, with eight world recor...

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...

Bleibtrey took gold in the 100 m freestyle, 300 m freestyle and 4x100 m relay at Antwerp 1920, setting world records in every race...

Madison won the 100 m freestyle, 400 m freestyle and relay at Los Angeles 1932, the first American woman to win three swimming gol...

Perkins won the 1500 m freestyle at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996, the second from lane 8 after barely qualifying, one of the gr...

Darnyi won the 200 m and 400 m IM at Seoul 1988 and again at Barcelona 1992, holding world records in both events through the peak...

Otto won the 50 m and 100 m freestyle, 100 m backstroke, 100 m butterfly and two relays in Seoul, becoming the first woman to win ...

Kahanamoku won the 100 m freestyle at Stockholm 1912 and Antwerp 1920, with a silver and relay gold besides, swimming with a then ...

Hajos won the 100 m and 1200 m freestyle in the cold open water of the Bay of Zea at the first modern Games at age 18. He later be...

Kitajima won the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at Athens 2004 and repeated the double at Beijing 2008, the first man to defend both...

Meyer won the 200 m, 400 m and 800 m freestyle at the 1968 Olympics, the first woman to win three individual swimming golds at a s...

Naber dominated the backstroke at the 1976 Olympics, winning the 100 m and 200 m and becoming the first man under two minutes in t...

Babashoff was the leading American freestyler of the 1970s but finished second to East German swimmers in several events at the 19...

Thompson won 12 Olympic medals between 1992 and 2004, including eight relay golds, making her one of the most decorated American w...

Torres first swam at the Olympics in 1984 and won a relay gold that year. She retired and returned more than once, winning five me...

Peirsol won the 100 m and 200 m backstroke at Athens 2004 and defended the 100 m at Beijing 2008, adding medley relay golds. He he...

Coughlin broke the one minute barrier for the 100 m backstroke in 2002 and won the Olympic title in the event at both Athens 2004 ...

Jones won silver medals at Sydney 2000 aged 14 and became the dominant breaststroker of the following decade, setting world record...

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 ...