Holding a world record in any sport is an incredible achievement. Over the past 100 years, drastic changes to the speed of swimming has meant new records are hit almost evey year. But did you know that times and paces across different disciplines can be affected by the slighte...
2023 World Swimming Championships final results from Doha ... Women’s 50m Freestyle Gold: Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) -- 23.69 Silver: Kate Douglass (USA) -- 23.91 Bronze: Katarzyna Wasick (POL) -- 23.95 4. Shayna Jack (AUS) -- 24.27 5. Taylor Ruck (CAN) -- 24.50 6. Anna Hopkin (...
Aug. 3, 2018, during day two of the 2018 European Championships at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Glasgow, Scotland. (Ian Rutherford/PA via AP)
Jin Zhipeng competes during the men's 50m breaststroke SB3 final of swimming event at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 14, 2016. Jin claimed title and broke the world record. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu) RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's Jin Zhipeng ...
Power requirements for swimming a world record 50-m front crawl. Int J Sports Physiol Perform 2006; 1: 61-64Toussaint, H. M., Truijens, M. J. (2006). Power requirements for swimming a world record 50-m front crawl. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Perfo...
After lowering the world record in the morning heats, Gretchen Walsh repeated the feat in the 50m butterfly semifinals at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in Budapest, Hungary with a time of 23.94 seconds.Stay in the Know Subscribe to our Newsletter and Alerts Subscri...
Swimming World Records 50m Butterfly World Record The 50m butterfly world record is overseen and ratified by FINA, the world governing body for the sport of competitive swimming. The 50 fly WR is one of the youngest on the books, as it is among the stroke 50’s which have only been tr...
Dressel had earlier claimed three titles in the 50m butterfly, 100m freestyle and the 4x100m freestyle relay events. Russia's Anton Chupkov created a new world record of 2:06.12 in the men's 200m breaststroke final. Chupkov beat the previous record of 2:06.67 set in 2017 by Ippei Wa...
Great Britain swam a world-record race at 3:37.58 to win gold. China finished second, followed by Australia. -- Aishwarya Kumar Plus, there's this: Hey Caeleb Dressel, Aunt Ruth and Uncle Rick wrote you a song 🎶@TeamUSA #TokyoOlympics @USASwim...
American Caeleb Dressel set short course world records in the men’s 100 metres butterfly and 50 metres freestyle events at the International Swimming League (ISL) finals in Budapest on Saturday. Dressel clocked 47.78 seconds in the 100m butterfly, and later lowered his own record in the 5...