No. Danyon Loader of New Zealand won gold with a time of 1:47.63 and the World Record was 1:46.69 by Giorgio Lamberti of Italy set in 1989.
Michael Johnson (USA) set the 200 Meter Dash World Record at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games with a time of 19.32 seconds.
Rebecca Adlington's time of 8:14.10 in the finals of the women's 800 meter freestyle was an Olympic record and a world record.
No they are not the same. A World Record can be broken at any time. Whereas an Olympic Record can only be broken at the Olympic Games (it's a glorified Meet Record.) Keep in mind that a World Record CAN be set at the Olympic Games (which would in turn, automatically break the Olympic Record as well.) A World Record outranks an Olympic Record.
An Olympic record is the greatest achieved in the Olympic games. A world record is the greatest achieved anywhere, ever. In some instances an Olympic record is also the world record.
Michael Phelps holds both records for the 200 meter men's freestyle. His record was 1:42.96 at the summer Olympics in 2008 in Beijing.
Derval o rourke was world record breaker during the 2008 olympic games.
As of 14 Aug 2008, the world record for women's Olympic 4x200 meter freestyle relay is 7:44.31 held by Team Australia. The previous record was held by USA in 2007 of about 7:49
For the long course the world record is 23.97 seconds by Libby Trickett of Australia set on March 29, 2008. For the short course the record is 23.25 seconds by Marleen Veldhuis of The Netherlands set on April 13, 2008.
World Record: Javier Sotomayor (CUB) 2.45m Olympic Record: Charles Austin (USA) 2.39m
Rebecca Adlington is a former English swimmer whose most notable achievement was winning two gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games, breaking the 800 metres freestyle world record in the process.
When an olympic swimmer wins a race and has the letters OR listed next to their name, it stands for ' Olympic Record ". An olympic record means that no swimmer has ever swum a faster time at the olympic games. However, the time is still slower than the world record, denoted by the letters WR. The world record can be set at any official race at any time in the world.
A total of 32 records were made in 100 meters freestyle swimming since Alan Ford made a world record of 55.4 seconds in 1948. His record was broken by Dick Cleveland who clocked 54.8 seconds in 1954. The current record of 46.91 seconds is held by Cesar Cielo of Brazil which he made in 2009.