In the pool.
1,500 metres for men and 800 metres for women (freestyle)
200 metres in all the other strokes (Back, breast and fly)
400 metres In the IM (Individual medley, 100m each of fly,back,breast and free in that order)
Open water
10 kilometres ( the swimming equivalent of running a marathon )
The Marathon
Marathon.
The MarathonThe longest running race is the marathon at 42.195KM (26miles 385yards)The longest foot race is the mens 50K walkThe longest race is the triathalon - 1500M swim + 40KM cycle + 10KM run
Not in the Olympics, but in some competitions you can skate as long as marathons! But in the Olympics, the longest distance is 3000m
The penguin can swim the longest underwater. The penguin can swim the longest underwater.
1500 m freestyle
The longest race is the 50 Km walk. The longest running race is the Marathon.
for swimming there is a meet called Olympic trials to reach that point there are tie standards you must reach. From that point the swimmers swim once in prelims where the top 16 move on to semi finals once the swimmers swim here the Field narrows even more down to 8 swimmers finally the swimmers swim one last race in the finals the top two swimmers in that race go to the Olympics
The Coca-Cola 600 is currently the longest sanctioned Nascar race.
The English Grand National, not a flat race but it's run in the flat season, making it the longest race in the flat race season.
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If you are referring to competition pools, then your answer is Long Course Meters. This course, used in the Olympics, FINA World Championships, and US Summer Nationals, is 50 meters long. If you are referring to longest swimming competition, it's definitely open water swimming. The longest race held in the Olympics is the 25K.