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List of Swimming World Swimmers of the Year Michael Phelps was the male World Swimmer of the Year in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2016.
List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (women) List of gold medalist relay teams in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships European Aquatics Championships – Multiple medalists in swimming
List of gold medalist relay teams in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships List of top Olympic gold medalists in swimming Swimming at the Summer Olympics List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women) List of Asian Games medalists in swimming
Michael Fred Phelps II [5] OLY (born June 30, 1985) [6] is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time [7] with a total of 28 medals. [8] Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), [9] Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). [10] At the 2004 Summer ...
Of the 35 pool-based events, swimmers from the United States hold fourteen records, Australia seven, China four, Hungary three, Great Britain and South Africa two each, and one each to Ukraine, Russian Olympic Committee and Sweden. Twenty of the current Olympic records were set at the 2020 Summer Olympics, seven in 2016, three in 2012, and five ...
USA Swimming maintains a list of current records for American swimmers ages 18 years old and younger called National Age Group (NAG) records. The records are the fastest swims by an American swimmer for the specified age group, gender, and event. NAG records are maintained for short course yards and long course meters.
^ "Katie Ledecky of the United States, left, holds the FINA Best Female Swimmer of the event trophy and China's Sun Yang holds the Best Male swimmer trophy at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013".
Notes[edit] [a] ^ The USA Record, or "American Record", represents the fastest time swum by a United States citizen in any geographic location, provided that they are "U.S. Sports Citizens who achieve an official time in accordance with USA Swimming rules." ( USA Swimming Rules 104.2.2 (A) (1)).