There are many records for swimming. This is because there are many different swimming strokes. They were also set at different times.
The world record for swimming a mile is held by Sun Yang of China. Sun's time is 14 minutes 31 seconds, set in 2012.
Kosuke Kitajima has been swimming for competitions since he was 17. He set his first world record for 100m breaststroke in 2003 and 200m breaststroke in 2002.
For men, it's 21.30 seconds, set by Cesar Cielo Filho yesterday. For women, it's 24.06 seconds, set by Britta Steffen this morning. Prior to the 2008 Olympics, the previous records had stood since 1992 and 2000 respectively. Well I thought that Michael phelps held the swimming record?
Mark Spitz (USA) won 7 gold medals for swimming at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The fastest time for swimming the 50-yard butterfly is 21.11 seconds, achieved by Caeleb Dressel at the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships. Dressel set this record while competing for the University of Florida.
Michael Phelps, he got 8 gold medals for swimming
Ian Thorpe in men's 400 meter freestyle swimming.
The world record for the 100m crawl, also known as the freestyle stroke in swimming, is 46.91 seconds for men, set by Cesar Cielo from Brazil, and 51.94 seconds for women, achieved by Sarah Sjostrom from Sweden.
The world record in the 4x100 meter relay was set by Jamaica (Usain Bolt, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in a time of 37.10 seconds. The women's world record is held by East Germany at a time of 41.37 seconds set in 1985.
Set the Record Straight was created in 2004-12.
There are 30 new World Records set during the 2012 Summer Olympics27 July 2012 Archery - Men's individual Im Dong-Hyun South Korea Scored a world record of 699 in the ranking round27 July 2012 Archery - Men's team Im Dong-Hyun Kim Bub-Min Oh Jin-Hyek South Korea Scored a world record of 2087 in the ranking round28 July 2012 Rowing - Men's coxless pair Eric Murray Hamish Bond New Zealand Set a world record time of 6:08.50 in the heats28 July 2012 Swimming - Women's 400 metre individual medley Ye Shiwen China Set a world record time of 4:28.43 in the final29 July 2012 Weightlifting - Women's 53 kg Zulfiya Chinshanlo Kazakhstan Set a world record at clean and jerk of 131 kg29 July 2012 Swimming - Women's 100 metre butterfly Dana Vollmer United States Set a world record time of 55.9829 July 2012 Swimming - Men's 100 metre breaststroke Cameron van der Burgh South Africa Set a world record time of 58.4630 July 2012 Weightlifting - Men's 62 kg Kim Un-Guk North Korea Set a world record at total of 327 kg1 August 2012 Swimming - Men's 200 metre breaststroke Dániel Gyurta Hungary Set a world record time of 2:07.281 August 2012 Weightlifting - Men's 77 kg Lü Xiaojun China Set world record at snatch of 175 kg Set world record at total of 379 kg1 August 2012 Swimming - Women's 200 metre breaststroke Rebecca Soni United States Set a world record time of 2:20.00 in the semi-final.2 August 2012 Cycling - Women's team sprint Victoria PendletonJessica Varnish Great Britain Set a world record time of 32.526 in the qualification.2 August 2012 Cycling - Women's team sprint Gong Jinjie Guo Shuang China Set a world record time of 32.447 in the qualification. Set a world record time of 32.422 in the first round.2 August 2012 Cycling - Men's team pursuit Ed Clancy Geraint Thomas Steven Burke Peter Kennaugh Great Britain Set a world record time of 3:52.499 in the qualification. Set a world record time of 3:51.659 in the final.2 August 2012 Cycling - Men's team sprint Philip Hindes Chris Hoy Jason Kenny Great Britain Set a world record time of 42.747 in the first round. Set a world record time of 42.600 in the final.2 August 2012 Swimming - Women's 200 metre breaststroke Rebecca Soni United States Set a world record time of 2:19.59 in the final.3 August 2012 Cycling - Women's team pursuit Danielle King Laura TrottJoanna Rowsell Great Britain Set a world record time of 3:15.669 in the qualification.3 August 2012 Shooting - Men's 50 metre rifle prone Sergei Martynov Belarus Set a world record result of 705.5 in the final.3 August 2012 Swimming - Women's 200 metre backstroke Missy Franklin United States Set a world record time of 2:04.06 in the final.4 August 2012 Shooting - Women's trap Jessica Rossi Italy Scored a world record of 75 in the qualification.Scored a world record of 99 in the final.4 August 2012 Cycling - Women's team pursuit Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell Great Britain Set a world record time of 3:14.682 in the first round.Set a world record time of 3:14.051 in the final.4 August 2012 Swimming - Men's 1500 metre freestyle Sun Yang China Set a world record time of 14:31.02 in the final.4 August 2012 Swimming - Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay Missy FranklinRebecca Soni Dana Vollmer Allison Schmitt United States Set a world record time of 3:52.05 in the final.4 August 2012 Weightlifting - Men's 94 kg Ilya Ilin Kazakhstan Set a world record at clean and jerk of 233 kg.Set a world record total of 418 kg.5 August 2012 Weightlifting - Women's +75 kg Tatiana Kashirina Russia Set a world record at snatch of 151 kg.5 August 2012 Weightlifting - Women's +75 kg Zhou Lulu China Set a world record total of 333 kg. 9 August 2012 Athletics - Men's 800 metres David Rudisha Kenya Set a world record time of 1:40.91 in the final.10 August 2012 Athletics - Women's 4 × 100 metres relay Tianna MadisonAllyson Felix Bianca Knight Carmelita Jeter United States Set a world record time of 40.82 in the final.11 August 2012 Athletics - Women's 20 kilometres walk Elena Lashmanova Russia Set a world record time of 1:25:02.11 August 2012 Athletics - Men's 4 × 100 metres relay Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt Jamaica Set a world record time of 36.84 in the final.