Olympic Results Digest: All The Medalists & Records Set In The Pool In Tokyo

2020 TOKYO SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES

• When: Pool swimming: Saturday, July 24 – Sunday, August 1, 2021
• Where: Olympic Aquatics Centre / Tokyo, Japan
• Heats: 7 PM / Semifinals & Finals: 10:30 AM (Local time)
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The pool swimming competition was the first of the five aquatic disciplines to wrap up at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and we’ve compiled a quick reference guide for you to get all of the information you need from the meet in once place.

Below you can find all of the medalists in each event during the swimming competition, with results to the full results summary linked to each event name.

Men’s Events

Women’s Events

MIXED EVENT

• WR = World Record
• OR = Olympic Record
• AM = Americas Record
• ER = European Record
• AS = Asian Record
• OC = Oceanian Records

RECORDS BROKEN BY TYPE

Below is a list of all of the world, Olympic and Continental Records broken during the Games.

Note: Crossed out performances indicate that the record was re-broken later in the competition.

WORLD RECORDS

• Men’s 100m Butterfly – Caeleb Dressel (USA), 49.45
• Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay – United States (Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, Celeb Dressel, Zach Apple), 3:26.78
• Women’s 200m Breaststroke – Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA), 2:18.95
• Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay – Australia (Bronte Campbell, Meg Harris, Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell), 3:29.69
• Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – China (Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei, Li Bingjie), 7:40.33
• Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay – Great Britain (Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Anna Hopkin), 3:37.58

OLYMPIC RECORDS

• Men’s 50m Freestyle – Caeleb Dressel (USA), 21.07
• Men’s 100m Freestyle – Caeleb Dressel (USA), 47.02
• Men’s 800m Freestyle – Mykhailo Romanchuk (UKR), 7:41.28
• Men’s 200m Backstroke – Evgeny Rylov (ROC), 1:53.27
• Men’s 200m Breaststroke – Zac Stubblety-Cook (AUS), 2:06.38
• Men’s 100m Butterfly – Caeleb Dressel (USA), 49.45
• Men’s 100m Butterfly – Caeleb Dressel (USA), 49.71
• Men’s 100m Butterfly – Kristof Milak (HUN), 50.31
• Men’s 100m Butterfly – Caeleb Dressel (USA), 50.39=
• Men’s 200m Butterfly – Kristof Milak (HUN), 1:51.25
• Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay – United States (Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, Caeleb Dressel, Zach Apple), 3:26.78
• Women’s 50m Freestyle – Emma McKeon (AUS), 23.81
• Women’s 50m Freestyle – Emma McKeon (AUS), 24.00
• Women’s 50m Freestyle – Emma McKeon (AUS), 24.02
• Women’s 100m Freestyle – Emma McKeon (AUS), 51.96
• Women’s 100m Freestyle – Emma McKeon (AUS), 52.13
• Women’s 100m Freestyle – Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 52.62
• Women’s 200m Freestyle – Ariarne Titmus (AUS), 1:53.50
• Women’s 1500m Freestyle – Katie Ledecky (USA), 15:35.35
• Women’s 100m Backstroke – Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 57.47
• Women’s 100m Backstroke – Regan Smith (USA), 57.86
• Women’s 100m Backstroke – Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 57.88
• Women’s 100m Backstroke – Regan Smith (USA), 57.96
• Women’s 100m Backstroke – Kylie Masse (CAN), 58.17
• Women’s 100m Breaststroke – Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA), 1:04.82
• Women’s 200m Breaststroke – Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA), 2:18.95
• Women’s 200m Breaststroke – Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA), 2:19.16
• Women’s 200m Butterfly – Zhang Yufei (CHN), 2:03.86
• Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay – Australia (Bronte Campbell, Meg Harris, Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell), 3:29.69
• Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – China (Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei, Li Bingjie), 7:40.33
• Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay – Australia (Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell), 3:51.60
• Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay – Great Britain (Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Anna Hopkin), 3:37.58
• Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay – Great Britain (Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Freya Anderson), 3:38.75

CONTINENTAL RECORDS

Americas Records (North and South America)

• Men’s 100m Butterfly – Caeleb Dressel (USA), 49.45
• Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay – United States (Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, Caeleb Dressel, Zach Apple), 3:26.78
• Women’s 100m Butterfly – Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 55.59
• Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – United States (Allison Schmitt, Paige Madden, Katie McLaughlin, Katie Ledecky), 7:40.73

Note: “North American Records” aren’t officially kept, though South American Records are. Two SA marks fell in Tokyo at the hands of Fernando Scheffer in the men’s 200m freestyle (1:44.66) and Guilherme Costa in the men’s 800m freestyle (7:46.09).

European Records

• Men’s 100m Freestyle – Kliment Kolesnikov (ROC), 47.11
• Men’s 100m Backstroke – Evgeny Rylov (ROC), 51.98
• Men’s 100m Butterfly – Kristof Milak (HUN), 49.68
• Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – Great Britain (Tom Dean, James Guy, Matthew Richards, Duncan Scott), 6:58.58
• Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay – Great Britain (Luke Greenbank, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Duncan Scott), 3:27.51
• Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay – Great Britain (Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Anna Hopkin), 3:37.58
• Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay – Great Britain (Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Freya Anderson), 3:38.75

Asian Records

• Men’s 100m Freestyle – Hwang Sunwoo (KOR), 47.56
• Men’s 200m Individual Medley – Wang Shun (CHN), 1:55.00
• Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay – Japan (Ryosuke Irie, Ryuya Mura, Naoki Mizunuma, Katsumi Nakamura), 3:29.91
• Women’s 100m Freestyle – Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 52.27
• Women’s 100m Freestyle – Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 52.40
• Women’s 100m Freestyle – Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 52.70
• Women’s 200m Freestyle – Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 1:53.92
• Women’s 400m Freestyle – Li Bingjie (CHN), 4:01.08
• Women’s 400m Freestyle – Li Bingjie (CHN), 4:01.57
• Women’s 1500m Freestyle – Wang Jianjiahe (CHN), 15:41.49
• Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay – China (Cheng Yujie, Zhu Menghui, Ai Yanhan, Wu Qingfeng), 3:34.76
• Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay – China (Cheng Yujie, Zhu Menghui, Ai Yanhan, Wu Qingfeng), 3:35.07
• Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – China (Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei, Li Bingjie), 7:40.33

Oceanian Records

• Men’s 400m Individual Medley – Brendon Smith (AUS), 4:09.27
• Men’s 400m Individual Medley – Lewis Clareburt (NZL), 4:09.49
• Women’s 100m Freestyle – Emma McKeon (AUS), 51.96
• Women’s 400m Freestyle – Ariarne Titmus (AUS), 3:56.69
• Women’s 800m Freestyle – Ariarne Titmus (AUS), 8:13.83
• Women’s 100m Butterfly – Emma McKeon (AUS), 55.72
• Women’s 100m Butterfly – Emma McKeon (AUS), 55.82
• Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay – Australia (Bronte Campbell, Meg Harris, Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell), 3:29.69
• Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – Australia (Ariarne Titmus, Emma McKeon, Madison Wilson, Leah Neale), 7:41.29
• Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay – Australia (Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell), 3:51.60

African Records

• Women’s 100m Breaststroke – Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA), 1:04.82
• Women’s 200m Breaststroke – Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA), 2:18.95
• Women’s 200m Breaststroke – Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA), 2:19.16
• Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – South Africa (Aimee Canny, Rebecca Meder, Dune Coetzee, Erin Gallagher), 8:01.56