It depends on your age but:
-For a ten-under a good start is 1:50
-For an 11-12 a good start is 1:30
-For a 13-14 and 15-18 girl a good start is 1:20
-For a 15-18 boy a good start is 1:15 -To reach high school state finals in most states, a time of less than 1:02 or less is required.
-For consideration as a High School All American, one probably has to break a minute.
At a guess 100 metres.
Gold medalist Kosuke Kitajima of Japan won the gold medal in men's 100 meter breaststroke at the 2008 Games in Beijing in a time of 58.91 seconds, a new world record.
Russia won the silver medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
2 ... in women's 100 meter breaststroke swimming and 200 meter breaststroke swimming.
Yulia Efimova of Russia won the silver medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
United States won the gold medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Lillia King of the United States won the gold medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Yulia Efimova of Russia won the silver medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Catherine Meili of the United States won the bronze medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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The United States won the bronze medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, South Africans have won four Olympic gold medals in swimming. Three of those have been won by women. Penny Heyns won two gold at the 1996 Games in Atlanta in women's 100 meter breaststroke and women's 200 meter breaststroke and Joan Harrison won gold in women's 100 meter backstroke at the 1952 Games in Helsinki. Penny Heyns is the only woman in Olympic history to have won gold in the 100 meter breaststroke and 200 meter breaststroke at the same Games. She also won a bronze medal in women's 100 meter breaststroke at the 2000 Games in Sydney. At one time in the late 1990s she held five of the six breaststroke world records (50 meter, 100 meter, 200 meter).
Adrian Moorhouse
The world record for the women's 100m breaststroke is 1:04.13, set by Lilly King (USA) on July 24, 2021 at the Tokyo Olympics.