Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships
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The swimming events of the 2001 World Aquatics Championships
2001 World Aquatics Championships
rightThe 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001....

were held in a temporary pool at Marine Messe in Fukuoka
Fukuoka
Fukuoka most often refers to the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture.It can also refer to:-Locations:* Fukuoka, Gifu, a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan* Fukuoka, Toyama, a town in Toyama Prefecture, Japan...

, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 in July 2001. This edition of the championships featured 20 events for both men and women, including the introduction of a 50 m event in all strokes and equality in the distance freestyle events, with both men and women swimming both 800 and 1500 m.

The swimming event resulted in eight world records and Australia topping the medal tally with 13 golds, although the USA claimed 26 total medals to 19 for Australia. The men's FINA Trophy (top individual performers) was awarded to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

's Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM , nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most...

 for his three individual wins and three world records. Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former swimmer. She was a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder.-Biography:De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, South Holland, and tried several sports before settling with swimming....

 (The Netherlands) won the women's FINA Trophy for three individual wins. Australia swept the men's relays and won two of three of the women's relays, although were subsequently disqualified in the women's 4×200 m freestyle for a post-race infraction – jumping into the pool before all teams had finished.

The Seiko
Seiko
, more commonly known simply as Seiko , is a Japanese watch company.-History and ongoing developments:The company was founded in 1881, when Kintarō Hattori opened a watch and jewelry shop called in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. Eleven years later, in 1892, he began to produce clocks under the...

 timing system used for the swimming events at the championships experienced some faults with the touch pads throughout the eight days of competition causing controversy amongst teams and media.

Medal table

1 13 3 3 19
2 9 9 8 26
3 3 6 6 15
4 3 4 0 7
5 3 1 0 4
6 2 2 3 7
7 2 2 2 6
8 1 3 2 6
9 1 2 4 7
10 1 2 3 6
11 1 1 2 4
12 1 0 1 2
13 0 2 0 2
14 0 1 1 2
15 0 1 0 1
15 0 1 0 1
15 0 1 0 1
18 0 0 4 4
19 0 0 1 1
Total 40 41 40 121

Men

{|
|-valign="top"
|rowspan=2|50 m freestyle




The swimming events of the 2001 World Aquatics Championships
2001 World Aquatics Championships
rightThe 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001....

were held in a temporary pool at Marine Messe in Fukuoka
Fukuoka
Fukuoka most often refers to the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture.It can also refer to:-Locations:* Fukuoka, Gifu, a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan* Fukuoka, Toyama, a town in Toyama Prefecture, Japan...

, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 in July 2001. This edition of the championships featured 20 events for both men and women, including the introduction of a 50 m event in all strokes and equality in the distance freestyle events, with both men and women swimming both 800 and 1500 m.

The swimming event resulted in eight world records and Australia topping the medal tally with 13 golds, although the USA claimed 26 total medals to 19 for Australia. The men's FINA Trophy (top individual performers) was awarded to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

's Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM , nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most...

 for his three individual wins and three world records. Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former swimmer. She was a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder.-Biography:De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, South Holland, and tried several sports before settling with swimming....

 (The Netherlands) won the women's FINA Trophy for three individual wins. Australia swept the men's relays and won two of three of the women's relays, although were subsequently disqualified in the women's 4×200 m freestyle for a post-race infraction – jumping into the pool before all teams had finished.

The Seiko
Seiko
, more commonly known simply as Seiko , is a Japanese watch company.-History and ongoing developments:The company was founded in 1881, when Kintarō Hattori opened a watch and jewelry shop called in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. Eleven years later, in 1892, he began to produce clocks under the...

 timing system used for the swimming events at the championships experienced some faults with the touch pads throughout the eight days of competition causing controversy amongst teams and media.

Medal table

{|
|-
|1 ||align="left"| ||13 ||3 ||3 ||19
|-
|2 ||align="left"| ||9 ||9 ||8 ||26
|-
|3 ||align="left"| ||3 ||6 ||6 ||15
|-
|4 ||align="left"| ||3 ||4 ||0 ||7
|-
|5 ||align="left"| ||3 ||1 ||0 ||4
|-
|6 ||align="left"| ||2 ||2 ||3 ||7
|-
|7 ||align="left"| ||2 ||2 ||2 ||6
|-
|8 ||align="left"| ||1 ||3 ||2 ||6
|-
|9 ||align="left"| ||1 ||2 ||4 ||7
|-
|10 ||align="left"| ||1 ||2 ||3 ||6
|-
|11 ||align="left"| ||1 ||1 ||2 ||4
|-
|12 ||align="left"| ||1 ||0 ||1 ||2
|-
|13 ||align="left"| ||0 ||2 ||0 ||2
|-
|14 ||align="left"| ||0 ||1 ||1 ||2
|-
|15 ||align="left"| ||0 ||1 ||0 ||1
|-
|15 ||align="left"| ||0 ||1 ||0 ||1
|-
|15 ||align="left"| ||0 ||1 ||0 ||1
|- bgcolor=#ccccff
|18 ||align="left"| ||0 ||0 ||4 ||4
|-
|19 ||align="left"| ||0 ||0 ||1 ||1
|- class="sortbottom"
!colspan=2| Total || 40 || 41 || 40 || 121
|}

Men

{|
|-valign="top"
|rowspan=2|50 m freestyle




The swimming events of the 2001 World Aquatics Championships
2001 World Aquatics Championships
rightThe 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001....

were held in a temporary pool at Marine Messe in Fukuoka
Fukuoka
Fukuoka most often refers to the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture.It can also refer to:-Locations:* Fukuoka, Gifu, a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan* Fukuoka, Toyama, a town in Toyama Prefecture, Japan...

, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 in July 2001. This edition of the championships featured 20 events for both men and women, including the introduction of a 50 m event in all strokes and equality in the distance freestyle events, with both men and women swimming both 800 and 1500 m.

The swimming event resulted in eight world records and Australia topping the medal tally with 13 golds, although the USA claimed 26 total medals to 19 for Australia. The men's FINA Trophy (top individual performers) was awarded to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

's Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM , nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most...

 for his three individual wins and three world records. Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former swimmer. She was a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder.-Biography:De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, South Holland, and tried several sports before settling with swimming....

 (The Netherlands) won the women's FINA Trophy for three individual wins. Australia swept the men's relays and won two of three of the women's relays, although were subsequently disqualified in the women's 4×200 m freestyle for a post-race infraction – jumping into the pool before all teams had finished.

The Seiko
Seiko
, more commonly known simply as Seiko , is a Japanese watch company.-History and ongoing developments:The company was founded in 1881, when Kintarō Hattori opened a watch and jewelry shop called in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. Eleven years later, in 1892, he began to produce clocks under the...

 timing system used for the swimming events at the championships experienced some faults with the touch pads throughout the eight days of competition causing controversy amongst teams and media.

Medal table

{|
|-
|1 ||align="left"| ||13 ||3 ||3 ||19
|-
|2 ||align="left"| ||9 ||9 ||8 ||26
|-
|3 ||align="left"| ||3 ||6 ||6 ||15
|-
|4 ||align="left"| ||3 ||4 ||0 ||7
|-
|5 ||align="left"| ||3 ||1 ||0 ||4
|-
|6 ||align="left"| ||2 ||2 ||3 ||7
|-
|7 ||align="left"| ||2 ||2 ||2 ||6
|-
|8 ||align="left"| ||1 ||3 ||2 ||6
|-
|9 ||align="left"| ||1 ||2 ||4 ||7
|-
|10 ||align="left"| ||1 ||2 ||3 ||6
|-
|11 ||align="left"| ||1 ||1 ||2 ||4
|-
|12 ||align="left"| ||1 ||0 ||1 ||2
|-
|13 ||align="left"| ||0 ||2 ||0 ||2
|-
|14 ||align="left"| ||0 ||1 ||1 ||2
|-
|15 ||align="left"| ||0 ||1 ||0 ||1
|-
|15 ||align="left"| ||0 ||1 ||0 ||1
|-
|15 ||align="left"| ||0 ||1 ||0 ||1
|- bgcolor=#ccccff
|18 ||align="left"| ||0 ||0 ||4 ||4
|-
|19 ||align="left"| ||0 ||0 ||1 ||1
|- class="sortbottom"
!colspan=2| Total || 40 || 41 || 40 || 121
|}

Men

{|
|-valign="top"
|rowspan=2|50 m freestyle

|rowspan=2|
22.09
|rowspan=2|
22.16
|
22.18
|-
|
22.18
|-valign="top"
| 100 m freestyle

|
48.33 |
48.43
|
48.79
|-valign="top"
| 200 m freestyle

|
1:44.06
WR
|
1:45.81
|
1:47.10
|-valign="top"
| 400 m freestyle

|
3:40.17
WR
|
3:42.51
|
3:45.11
|-valign="top"
| 800 m freestyle

|
7:39.16
WR
|
7:40.34
|
7:51.12
|-valign="top"
| 1500 m freestyle

|
14:34.56
WR
|
14:58.94
|
15:01.43
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| 50 m backstroke

|
25.34
|
25.44
|
25.49
|-valign="top"
| 100 m backstroke

|
54.31 |
54.75
|
54.91
|-valign="top"
| 200 m backstroke

|
1:57.13 |
1:58.07
|
1:58.37
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| 50 m breaststroke

|
27.52 |
27.60
|
27.72
|-
| 100 m breaststroke

|
1:00.16
|
1:00.47
|
1:00.61
|-valign="top"
| 200 m breaststroke

|
2:10.69 |
2:11.09
|
2:11.21
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| 50 m butterfly

|
23.50
|
23.57
|
23.62
|-valign="top"
| 100 m butterfly

|
52.10 |
52.25
|
52.36
|-valign="top"
| 200 m butterfly

|
1:54.58
WR
|
1:55.28
|
1:55.68
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| 200 m individual medley

|
1:59.71
|
2:00.73
|
2:00.91
|-valign="top"
| 400 m individual medley

|
4:13.15
|
4:15.36
|
4:15.94
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| 4×100 m freestyle relay

| Australia
Michael Klim
Michael Klim
Michael Klim OAM is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. He was born in Gdynia. He was educated at the University High School, Melbourne and Wesley College, Melbourne where he is currently employed as the College's elite Head Coach of swimming...


Ashley Callus
Ashley Callus
Ashley Callus is an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer, who won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics....


Todd Pearson
Todd Pearson
Todd Pearson is an Australian swimming champion, who was born in Geraldton, Western Australia. He started swimming on the advice of a doctor treating his asthma. Pearson was vice captain of Hale School in 1994 where he spent time in Faulkner House And St George House.He is no stranger to the...


Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM , nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most...


3:14.10 | Netherlands
Mark Veens
Mark Veens
Mark Hermanus Maria Veens is a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at three consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia as a member of the 4×100 m freestyle .Veens' finest hour came at the European Short Course Swimming...


Johan Kenkhuis
Johan Kenkhuis
Johan Kenkhuis is an Olympic medal winning Dutch swimmer.From a young age, Kenkhuis had a strong interest in swimming. In 1998, he won gold medals in both the 100 meter and 200 meter freestyle events in the European Junior Championships...


Klaas-Erik Zwering
Klaas-Erik Zwering
Klaas-Erik Zwering is a former Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. He is currently studying MBO entrepreneurship as he trained in Eindhoven with the PSV Eindhoven swim club...


Pieter van den Hoogenband
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Pieter Cornelis Ruud Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch former swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.-Personal life:...


3:14.56
| Germany
Stefan Herbst
Stefan Herbst
Stefan Herbst is a 2-time Olympics swimmer from Germany. He swam for Germany at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He is the brother of fellow Olympic swimmer Sabine Herbst....


Torsten Spanneberg
Torsten Spanneberg
Torsten Spanneberg is an Olympic medal winning German swimmer. He won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics and participated in the swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. His trainer is Norbert Warnatzach and his club is S.G. Neukölln...


Lars Conrad
Lars Conrad
Lars Conrad is an Olympic and national record holding freestyle swimmer from Germany. He swam for Germany at 2000 and 2004 Olympics....


Sven Lodziewski
Sven Lodziewski
Sven Lodziewski is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics....


3:17.52
|-valign="top"
| 4×200 m freestyle relay

| Australia
Grant Hackett
Grant Hackett
Grant Hackett OAM is an Australian former swimmer most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him to be regarded as one of the greatest distance swimmers in history...


Michael Klim
Michael Klim
Michael Klim OAM is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. He was born in Gdynia. He was educated at the University High School, Melbourne and Wesley College, Melbourne where he is currently employed as the College's elite Head Coach of swimming...


Bill Kirby
Bill Kirby
William Ashley Kirby is an Australian swimmer who was competitive on an international level in the nineties and early 2000s...


Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM , nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most...


7:04.66
WR
| Italy
Emiliano Brembilla
Emiliano Brembilla
Emiliano Brembilla is a freestyle swimmer from Italy, who won the bronze medal with the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...


Matteo Pelliciari
Matteo Pelliciari
Matteo Pelliciari is an Italian freestyle swimmer.Pelliciari won several medals mainly as a member of the Italian 4 x 200 m freestyle relay. He participated for Italy in the Summer Olympic of Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.-References:* * on Italian Swimming Federation's website...


Andrea Beccari
Andrea Beccari
Andrea Beccari is an Italian freestyle swimmer. He won several medals mainly as member of the Italian 4 x 200 m freestyle relay...


Massimiliano Rosolino
Massimiliano Rosolino
-Biography:Born in Naples of an Italian father, Salvatore, and Australian mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back to Italy at six. Rosolino declared about his beginnings as a swimmer:...


7:10.86
| United States
Scott Goldblatt
Scott Goldblatt
Scott Goldblatt is an American swimmer who specializes in the freestyle.-Biography:Raised in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Goldblatt first began swimming in the children’s pool at his local swim club, Willow Grove Swim Club in Scotch Plains...


Nate Dusing
Nate Dusing
Nathaniel James Dusing is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from the United States, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 . There he won the silver medal in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, although he just swam in the prelims...


Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin is an Olympic freestyle swimmer from the United States. He swam for the USA at the 2000 Olympics.He swam for and attended the University of Arizona.-References:...


Klete Keller
Klete Keller
Klete Keller is an American freestyle swimmer who won medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 400 m freestyle and the 4x200 m freestyle relay. In the 4x200 m freestyle relay, Keller held off a charging Ian Thorpe in the anchor leg to win the race by 0.13 seconds...


7:13.69
|-valign="top"
| 4×100 m medley relay

| Australia
Matt Welsh
Matt Welsh
Matthew "Matt" Welsh is an Australian swimmer who is the former world champion in the backstroke and butterfly. Welsh trained under coach Ian Pope at the Melbourne Vicentre Club. He took two golds in 50 metres butterfly and 50 metres backstroke, during one hour, at the World Championships in...


Regan Harrison
Regan Harrison
Regan Harrison was an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1990s and 2000s, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as part of the 4×100 m medley relay team....


Geoff Huegill
Geoff Huegill
Geoffrey Andrew Huegill , nicknamed Skippy and Skip, is an Australian butterfly swimmer...


Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM , nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most...


3:35.35 | Germany
Steffen Driesen
Steffen Driesen
Steffen Driesen is a backstroke swimmer from Germany, who competed in two consequentive Summer Olympics for his native country. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, he won the silver medal in the 4x100 Medley Relay, alongside Lars Conrad, Jens Kruppa, and Thomas Rupprath.-External...


Jens Kruppa
Jens Kruppa
Jens Kruppa is an international breaststroke swimmer from Germany, who won the silver medal in the 4×100 metres medley relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:*...


Thomas Rupprath
Thomas Rupprath
Thomas Rupprath is an Olympic swimmer from Germany, who is nicknamed "The New Albatross". A specialist in the backstroke and butterfly, especially in short course, he held the world record for the 50 m backstroke with a time of 23.27 seconds set on 31 November 2002. This was broken by Robert...


Torsten Spanneberg
Torsten Spanneberg
Torsten Spanneberg is an Olympic medal winning German swimmer. He won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics and participated in the swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. His trainer is Norbert Warnatzach and his club is S.G. Neukölln...


3:36.34
| Russia
Vladislav Aminov
Dmitry Komornikov
Vladislav Kulikov
Vladislav Kulikov
Vladislav Kulikov is a former butterfly swimmer from Russia, who won the bronze medal in the men's 200 m butterfly at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He also competed at the Barcelona Games , as a member of the Unified Team....


Dmitri Tchernychev

3:37.77
|}
Legend: WR – World record; CR – Championship record

Women

{|
|-valign="top"
| 50 m freestyle

|
24.47
|
24.88
|
24.96
|-valign="top"
| 100 m freestyle

|
54.18
|
55.07
|
55.11
|-valign="top"
| 200 m freestyle

|
1:58.57
|
1:58.78
|
1:58.85
|-valign="top"
| 400 m freestyle

|
4:07.30
|
4:09.15
|
4:09.36
|-valign="top"
| 800 m freestyle

|
8:24.66
|
8:28.84
|
8:31.45
|-valign="top"
| 1500 m freestyle

|
16:01.02
CR
|
16:05:99
|
16:07.05
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| 50 m backstroke

|
28.51
|
28.53
|
28.54
|-valign="top"
| 100 m backstroke

|
1:00.37
|
1:00.68
|
1:01.42
|-valign="top"
| 200 m backstroke

|
2:09.94
|
2:10.43
|
2:11.05
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| 50 m breaststroke

|
30.84
CR
|
31.37
|
31.40
|-valign="top"
| 100 m breaststroke

|
1:07.18
CR
|
1:07.96
|
1:08.50
|-valign="top"
| 200 m breaststroke

|
2:24.90
CR
|
2:25.09
|
2:25.29
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| 50 m butterfly

|
25.90
CR
|
26.18
|
26.45
|-valign="top"
| 100 m butterfly

|
58.27
CR
|
58.72
|
58.88
|-valign="top"
| 200 m butterfly

|
2:06.73
CR
|
2:06.97
|
2:08.52
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| 200 m individual medley

|
2:11.93
|
2:12.30
|
2:12.46
|-valign="top"
| 400 m individual medley

|
4:36.98
|
4:39.06
|
4:39.33
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=4 |
|-valign="top"
| rowspan="2"|4×100 m freestyle relay

|rowspan="2"| Germany
Petra Dallmann
Petra Dallmann
Petra Dallmann is a German swimmer. She won a Bronze medal in 2004 Olympics...


Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte is a German swimmer. Her best disciplines are the short distance freestyle and backstroke races. Buschschulte swims for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. Up to now, she has won 24 German championships....


Katrin Meißner
Katrin Meißner
Katrin Meißner, last name alternatively spelled as "Meissner", is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who won three medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea...


Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker is a freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Germany, who won a total number of three medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she made her second Olympic appearance, after her debut four years earlier in Barcelona, Spain...


3:39.58
| United States
Colleen Lanne
Colleen Lanne
Colleen Lanne is a female freestyle swimmer from the United States, who earned a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, swimming the prelims of the 4x100m free relay...


Erin Phenix
Erin Phenix
Erin Phenix , is an American swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-Early life:Phenix was raised in Greenhills, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, by her mother, Laurie. She had her first swimming lessons at the age of eight. In 1997, at Ursuline Academy, she won the state...


Maritza Correia
Maritza Correia
Maritza Correia is an Olympic-swimmer from the United States. When she qualified for the USA Olympic Team in 2004, she became the first Puerto Rican of African descent to be on the USA Olympic Swimming Team...


Courtney Shealy
Courtney Shealy
Courtney Shealy is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States, who swam the third leg of the world record-breaking 4×100 m freestyle relay team that won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Her winning teammates were Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres, and Amy Van Dyken...

 
3:40.80
|rowspan="2"|—
|-valign="top"
| United Kingdom
Alison Sheppard
Alison Sheppard
Alison Sheppard MBE is a freestyle swimmer from Scotland, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, starting in 1988.-Personal bests and records held:-External links:*...


Melanie Marshall
Melanie Marshall
Melanie Marshall is a former British swimmer.Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, brought up in Wrangle and currently residing in Loughborough with her two dogs, Missy and Jetson, she is 1.7 m , 62 kg...


Rosalind Brett
Rosalind Brett
Rosalind Brett is a former British swimmer.During her swimming career Brett represented Great Britain in numerous world and European championships in butterfly and freestyle over various distances, winning a handful of medals as part of relay teams...


Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...


3:40.80
|-valign="top"
| 4×200 m freestyle relay

| United Kingdom
Nicola Jackson
Nicola Jackson
Nicola Jackson is a British swimmer, who won two world championships in relay events.In 1999, Jackson won a silver medal at the World Short Course Championships in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay...


Janine Belton
Janine Belton
Janine Claire Belton is a former English swimmer. She is best known for winning gold at the 2001 World Championships as part of the British women's 4×200 m freestyle relay team alongside Nicola Jackson, Karen Legg and Karen Pickering.She represented Great Britain at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic...


Karen Legg
Karen Legg
Karen Legg-Crumpler is a former British freestyle swimmer.During her seven year international career , she won four world, two European and seven Commonwealth medals. Legg also competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in the women's 4×200 m freestyle...


Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...


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| Germany
Silvia Szalai
Sara Harstick
Sara Harstick
Sara Harstick is a former German freestyle swimmer, who won bronze medals in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics....


Hannah Stockbauer
Hannah Stockbauer
Hannah Stockbauer is a German female athlete. She is active in swimming, and a five time world champion. In 2003 World Championships she won a gold medal at the 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events...


Meike Freitag
Meike Freitag
Meike Freitag is a retired female swimmer from Germany, specialised in the freestyle. A three-time Olympian she won a total number of three medals as a member of the German women's relay teams...


8:01.35
| Japan
Maki Mita
Tomoko Hagiwara
Tomoko Hagiwara
is a retired Japanese female backstroke, butterfly and medley swimmer. She represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She is best known for winning two gold medals at the 1999 Summer Universiade in Palma de Mallorca....


Tomoko Nagai
Eri Yamanoi
Eri Yamanoi
is a former freestyle swimmer from Japan, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in fourth place in the 4x200m freestyle relay, alongside Aiko Miyake, Naoko Imoto, and Suzu Chiba....


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| Australia
Dyana Calub
Dyana Calub
Dyana Calub was an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 2000s, who won the silver medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics....


Leisel Jones
Leisel Jones
Leisel Marie Jones OAM is an Australian Olympic gold medalist swimmer. A participant in the 2000 Summer Olympics – at just 15 years old – and 2004 Summer Olympics, she was part of gold medal winning Australian team in the women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the Athens Games in 2004 and a gold...


Petria Thomas
Petria Thomas
Petria Ann Thomas OAM is an Australian swimmer and Olympic gold medallist and a winner of 15 national titles. She was born in Lismore, New South Wales and grew up in the nearby town of Mullumbimby....


Sarah Ryan
Sarah Ryan
Sarah Michelle Ryan OAM is a former Australian sprint freestyle swimmer, who won relay medals at three consecutive Olympics from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics to the 2004 Athens Olympics, but who was perhaps best known in Australia for her colourful long fingernails.-Career:Coming from Adelaide, South...


4:01.50
CR
| United States
Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive...


Megan Quann
Mary Descenza
Mary DeScenza
Mary Elizabeth Mohler is an American swimmer.- Personal life :Mohler was born into an Italian-American family in Middlesex, New Jersey. Her father, Robert DeScenza, works as a structural engineer and her mother, Margaret DeScenza, is a homemaker...


Erin Phenix
Erin Phenix
Erin Phenix , is an American swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-Early life:Phenix was raised in Greenhills, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, by her mother, Laurie. She had her first swimming lessons at the age of eight. In 1997, at Ursuline Academy, she won the state...


4:01.81
| People's Republic of China
Zhan Shu
Luo Xuejuan
Luo Xuejuan
Luo Xuejuan is a female Chinese swimmer, who competed mostly in the breaststroke. She is a former World Record holder in swimming, and in some meet results she is listed as "LUO Xue Juan".-Career:...


Ruan Yi
Xu Yanwei

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Legend: WR – World record; CR – Championship record

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