There are four strokes competed in the Olympics ... breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and freestyle.
Park Taehwan (Korea) won the gold medal in the men's 400 meter freestyle swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The team from the Netherlands (Inge Dekker, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Femke Heemskerk, Marleen Veldhuis, Hinkelien Schreuder, and Manon van Rooijen) won the gold medal in the women's 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay swimming event in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Michael Phelps won the men's 400 meter individual medley gold medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Cullen Jones won a gold medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay in 2008.
Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe in the world record time of 2:05.24.
7.45 kilometers per hour. Cate Campbell of Australia took the bronze medal at a time of 24.17 seconds.
Elena won a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She has also won a silver medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Natalie Coughlin of the USA in just under 59 seconds. You can go to: http://www.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/index.html for all results from 2008 thus far.
That is the 10k Open Water event that debuted at the 2008 Games in Beijing. Lara Ilchenko of Russia won the gold medal in a time of 59 minutes, 27.7 seconds. Prior to the 2008 Olympics, the longest swimming event for women was the 800 meter freestyle.
Irakli Revishvili participated in the men's 200 meter freestyle but did not advance to the semi-finals. Anna Salnikova participated in the women's 100 meter breaststroke but did not advance to the semi-finals.
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