50-Meter Freestyle

(50 yards in 1904)

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1904	Zoltán Halmaj, HUN	28.2y/ 28.0y	Scott Leary, USA	28.2y/ 28.6y	Charles Daniels, USA	---
1906-84	Not held
1988	Matt Biondi, USA	22.14	Thomas Jager, USA	22.36	Gennadiy Prigoda, URS	22.71
1992	Aleksandr Popov, EUN	21.91	Matt Biondi, USA	22.09	Thomas Jager, USA	22.30
1996	Aleksandr Popov, RUS	22.13	Gary Hall, Jr., USA	22.26	Fernando Scherer, BRA	22.29
2000	Anthony Ervin & Gary Hall, Jr., USA	21.98			Pieter van den Hoogenband, NED	22.03
2004	Gary Hall, USA	21.93	Duje Draganja, CRO	21.94	Roland Mark Schoeman, RSA	22.02

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100-Meter Freestyle

(100 yards in 1904)

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1896	Arnold Guttmann (“Alfréd Hajós”), HUN	1:22.2	Otto Herschmann, AUT	1:22.8
1900	Not held
1904	Zoltán Halmaj, HUN	1:02.8y	Charles Daniels, USA	---	Scott Leary, USA	---
1906	Charles Daniels, USA	1:13.0	Zoltán Halmaj, HUN	---	Cecil Healy, AUS	---
1908	Charles Daniels, USA	1:05.6	Zoltán Halmaj, HUN	1:06.2	Harald Julin, SWE	1:08.0
1912	Duke Kahanamoku, USA	1:03.4	Cecil Healy, AUS	1:04.6	Kenneth Huszagh, USA	1:05.6
1920	Duke Kahanamoku, USA	1:01.4	Warren Kealoha, USA	1:02.6	William Harris, USA	1:03.0
1924	Johnny Weissmuller, USA	59.0	Duke Kahanamoku, USA	1:01.4	Samuel Kahanamoku, USA	1:01.8
1928	Johnny Weissmuller, USA	58.6	István Bárány, HUN	59.8	Katsuo Takaishi, JPN	1:00.0
1932	Yasuji Miyazaki, JPN	58.2	Tatsugo Kawaishi, JPN	58.6	Albert Schwartz, USA	58.8
1936	Ferenc Csík, HUN	57.6	Masanori Yusa, JPN	57.9	Shigeo Arai, JPN	58.0
1948	Wally Ris, USA	57.3	Alan Ford, USA	57.8	Géza Kádas, HUN	58.1
1952	Clarke Scholes, USA	57.4	Hiroshi Suzuki, JPN	57.4	Göran Larsson, SWE	58.2
1956	Jon Henricks, AUS	55.4	John Devitt, AUS	55.8	Gary Chapman, AUS	56.7
1960	John Devitt, AUS	55.2	Lance Larson, USA	55.2	Manuel Dos Santos, BRA	55.4
1964	Don Schollander, USA	53.4	Robert McGregor, GBR	53.5	Hans-Joachim Klein, GER	54.0
1968	Mike Wenden, AUS	52.2	Kenneth Walsh, USA	52.8	Mark Spitz, USA	53.0
1972	Mark Spitz, USA	51.22	Jerry Heidenreich, USA	51.65	Vladimir Bure, URS	51.77
1976	Jim Montgomery, USA	49.99	Jack Babashoff, USA	50.81	Peter Nocke, FRG	51.31
1980	Jörg Woithe, GDR	50.40	Per Holmertz, SWE	50.91	Per Johansson, SWE	51.29
1984	Rowdy Gaines, USA	49.80	Mark Stockwell, AUS	50.24	Per Johansson, SWE	50.31
1988	Matt Biondi, USA	48.63	Chris Jacobs, USA	49.08	Stephan Caron, FRA	49.62
1992	Aleksandr Popov, EUN	49.02	Gustavo Borges, BRA	49.43	Stephan Caron, FRA	49.50
1996	Aleksandr Popov, RUS	48.74	Gary Hall, Jr., USA	48.81	Gustavo Borges, BRA	49.02
2000	Pieter van den Hoogenband, NED	48.30	Aleksandr Popov, RUS	48.69	Gary Hall, Jr., USA	48.73
2004	Pieter van den Hoogenband, NED	48.17	Roland Mark Schoeman, RSA	48.23	Ian Thorpe, AUS	48.26

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200-Meter Freestyle

(220 yards in 1900 and 1904)

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1900	Freddie Lane, AUS	2:25.2	Zoltán Halmaj, HUN	2:31.4	Karl Ruberl, AUT	2:32.0
1904	Charles Daniels, USA	2:44.2y	Francis Galley, USA	2:46.0y	Emil Rausch, GER	2:56.0
1906-64	Not held
1968	Mike Wenden, AUS	1:55.2	Don Schollander, USA	1:55.8	John Nelson, USA	1:58.1
1972	Mark Spitz, USA	1:52.78	Steven Genter, USA	1:53.73	Werner Lampe, FRG	1:53.99
1976	Bruce Furniss, USA	1:50.29	John Naber, USA	1:50.50	Jim Montgomery, USA	1:50.58
1980	Sergey Kopliakov, URS	1:49.81	Andrey Krylov, URS	1:50.76	Graeme Brewer, AUS	1:51.60
1984	Michael Gross, FRG	1:47.44	Michael Heath, USA	1:49.10	Thomas Fahrner, FRG	1:49.69
1988	Duncan Armstrong, AUS	1:47.25	Anders Holmertz, SWE	1:47.89	Matt Biondi, USA	1:47.99
1992	Yevgeniy Sadovyi, EUN	1:46.70	Anders Holmertz, SWE	1:46.86	Antti Kasvio, FIN	1:47.63
1996	Danyon Loader, NZL	1:47.63	Gustavo Borges, BRA	1:48.08	Dan Kowalski, AUS	1:48.25
2000	Pieter van den Hoogenband, NED	1:45.35	Ian Thorpe, AUS	1:45.83	Massimiliano Rosolino, ITA	1:46.65
2004	Ian Thorpe, AUS	1:44.71	Pieter van den Hoogenband, NED	1:45.23	Michael Phelps, USA	1:45.32

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400-Meter Freestyle

(400 yards in 1904)

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1904	Charles Daniels, USA	6:16.2	Francis Galley, USA	6:22.0	Otto Wahle, AUT	6:39.0
1906	Otto Scheff, AUT	6:24.0	Henry Taylor, GBR	6:26.0	John Arthur Jarvis, GBR
1908	Henry Taylor, GBR	5:36.8	Francis Beaurepaire, AUS	5:44.2	Otto Scheff, AUT	5:46.0
1912	George Hodgson, CAN	5:24.4	John Hatfield, GBR	5:25.8	Harold Hardwick, AUS	5:31.2
1920	Norman Ross, USA	5:26.8	Ludy Langer, USA	5:29.0	George Vernot, CAN	5:29.6
1924	Johnny Weissmuller, USA	5:04.2	Arne Borg, SWE	5:05.6	Andrew “Boy” Charlton, AUS	5:06.6
1928	Alberto Zorrilla, ARG	5:01.6	Andrew “Boy” Charlton, AUS	5:03.6	Arne Borg, SWE	5:04.6
1932	Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, USA	4:48.4	Jean Taris, FRA	4:48.5	Tsutomo Oyokota, JPN	4:52.3
1936	Jack Medica, USA	4:44.5	Shumpel Uto, JPN	4:45.6	Shozo Makino, JPN	4:48.1
1948	William Smith, USA	4:41.0	Jimmy McLane, USA	4:43.4	John Marshall, AUS	4:47.4
1952	Jean Boiteux, FRA	4:30.7	Ford Konno, USA	4:31.3	Per-Olof Östrand, SWE	4:35.2
1956	Murray Rose, AUS	4:27.3	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, JPN	4:30.4	George Breen, USA	4:32.5
1960	Murray Rose, AUS	4:18.3	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, JPN	4:21.4	John Konrads, AUS	4:21.8
1964	Don Schollander, USA	4:12.2	Frank Wiegand, GER	4:14.9	Allan Wood, AUS	4:15.1
1968	Mike Burton, USA	4:09.0	Ralph Hutton, CAN	4:11.7	Alain Mosconi, FRA	4:13.3
1972	Brad Cooper, AUS	4:00.27	Steven Genter, USA	4:01.94	Tom McBreen, USA	4:02.64
1976	Brian Goodell, USA	3:51.93	Tim Shaw, USA	3:52.54	Vladimir Raskatov, URS	3:55.76
1980	Vladimir Salnikov, URS	3:51.31	Andrey Krylov, URS	3:53.24	Ivar Stukolkin, URS	3:53.95
1984	George DiCarlo, USA	3:51.23	John Mykkanen, USA	3:51.49	Justin Lemberg, AUS	3:51.79
1988	Uwe Dassler, GDR	3:46.95	Duncan Armstrong, AUS	3:47.15	Artur Wojdat, POL	3:47.34
1992	Yevgeniy Sadovyi, EUN	3:45.00	Kieren Perkins, AUS	3:45.16	Anders Holmertz, SWE	3:46.77
1996	Danyon Loader, NZL	3:47.97	Paul Palmer, GBR	3:49.00	Dan Kowalski, AUS	3:49.39
2000	Ian Thorpe, AUS	3:40.59	Massimiliano Rosolino, ITA	3:43.40	Klete Keller, USA	3:47.00
2004	Ian Thorpe, AUS	3:43.10	Grant Hackett, AUS	3:43.36	Klete Keller, USA	3:44.11

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1500-Meter Freestyle

(1 mile in 1904)

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1904	Emil Rausch, GER	27:18.2	Géza Kiss, HUN	28:28.2	Francis Galley, USA	28:54.0
1906	Henry Taylor, GBR	28:28.0	John Arthur Jarvis, GBR	30:07.6	Otto Scheff, AUT	30:53.4
1908	Henry Taylor, GBR	22:48.4	Thomas Battersby, GBR	22:51.2	Francis Beaurepaire, AUS	22:56.2
1912	George Hodgson, CAN	22:00.0	John Hatfield, GBR	22:39.0	Harold Hardwick, AUS	23:15.4
1920	Norman Ross, USA	22:23.2	George Vernot, CAN	22:36.4	Francis Beaurepaire, AUS	23:04.0
1924	Andrew “Boy” Charlton, AUS	20:06.6	Arne Borg, SWE	20:41.4	Francis Beaurepaire, AUS	21:48.4
1928	Arne Borg, SWE	19:51.8	Andrew “Boy” Charlton, AUS	20:02.6	Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, USA	20:28.8
1932	Kusio Kitamura, JPN	19:12.4	Shozo Makino, JPN	19:14.1	James Cristy, USA	19:39.5
1936	Noboru Terada, JPN	19:13.7	Jack Medica, USA	19:34.0	Shumpei Uto, JPN	19:34.5
1948	Jimmy McLane, USA	19:18.5	John Marshall, AUS	19:31.3	György Mitró, HUN	19:43.2
1952	Ford Konno, USA	18:30.3	Shiro Hashizume, JPN	18:41.4	Tetsuo Okamoto, JPN	18:51.3
1956	Murray Rose, AUS	17:58.9	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, JPN	18:00.3	George Breen, USA	18:08.2
1960	John Konrads, AUS	17:19.6	Murray Rose, AUS	17:21.7	George Breen, USA	17:30.6
1964	Robert Windle, AUS	17:01.7	John Nelson, USA	17:03.0	Allan Wood, AUS	17:07.7
1968	Mike Burton, USA	16:38.9	John Kinsella, USA	16:57.3	Gregory Brough, AUS	17:04.7
1972	Mike Burton, USA	15:52.58	Graham Windeatt, AUS	15:58.48	Douglas Northway, USA	16:09.25
1976	Brian Goodell, USA	15:02.40	Bobby Hackett, USA	15:03.91	Steve Holland, AUS	15:04.66
1980	Vladimir Salnikov, URS	14:58.27	Aleksandr Chayev, URS	15:14.30	Max Metzker, AUS	15:14.49
1984	Mike O'Brien, USA	15:05.20	George DiCarlo, USA	15:10.59	Stefan Pfeiffer, FRG	15:12.11
1988	Vladimir Salnikov, URS	15:00.40	Stefan Pfeiffer, FRG	15:02.69	Uwe Dassler, GDR	15:06.15
1992	Kieren Perkins, AUS	14:43.48	Glen Housman, AUS	14:55.29	Jörg Hoffmann, GER	15:02.29
1996	Kieren Perkins, AUS	14:56.40	Dan Kowalski, AUS	15:02.43	Graeme Smith, GBR	15:02.48
2000	Grant Hackett, AUS	14:48.33	Kieren Perkins, AUS	14:53.59	Chris Thompson, USA	14:56.81
2004	Grant Hackett, AUS	14:43.40	Larsen Jensen, USA	14:45.29	David Davies, GBR	14:45.95

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100-Meter Backstroke

(100 yards in 1904)

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1904	Walter Brack, GER	1:16.8y	Georg Hoffmann, GER		Georg Zacharias, GER
1906	Not held
1908	Arno Bieberstein, GER	1:24.6	Ludvig Dam, GER	1:26.6	Herbert Haresnape, GBR	1:27.0
1912	Harry Hebner, USA	1:21.2	Otto Fahr, GER	1:22.4	Paul Kellner, GER	1:24.0
1920	Warren Kealoha, USA	1:15.2	Ray Kegeris, USA	1:16.8	Gérard Blitz, BEL	1:19.0
1924	Warren Kealoha, USA	1:13.2	Paul Wyatt, USA	1:15.4	Károly Bartha, HUN	1:17.8
1928	George Kojac, USA	1:08.2	Walter Laufer, USA	1:10.0	Paul Wyatt, USA	1:12.0
1932	Masaji Kiyokawa, JPN	1:08.6	Toshio Irie, JPN	1:09.8	Kentaro Kawazu, JPN	1:10.0
1936	Adolph Kiefer, USA	1:05.9	Albert Vandeweghe, USA	1:07.7	Masaji Kiyokawa, JPN	1:08.4
1948	Allen Stack, USA	1:06.4	Robert Cowell, USA	1:06.5	Georges Vallerey, FRA	1:07.8
1952	Yoshinobu Oyakawa, USA	1:05.4	Gilbert Bozon, FRA	1:06.2	Jack Taylor, USA	1:06.4
1956	David Theile, AUS	1:02.2	John Monckton, AUS	1:03.2	Frank McKinney, USA	1:04.5
1960	David Theile, AUS	1:01.9	Frank McKinney, USA	1:02.1	Robert Bennett, USA	1:02.3
1964	Not held
1968	Roland Matthes, GDR	58.7	Charles Hickcox, USA	1:00.2	Ronald Mills, USA	1:00.5
1972	Roland Matthes, GDR	56.58	Michael Stamm, USA	57.70	John Murphy, USA	58.35
1976	John Naber, USA	55.49	Peter Rocca, USA	56.34	Roland Matthes, GDR	57.22
1980	Bengt Baron, SWE	56.33	Viktor Kuznetsov, URS	56.99	Vladimir Dolgov, URS	57.63
1984	Rick Carey, USA	55.79	David Wilson, USA	56.35	Mike West, CAN	56.49
1988	Daichi Suzuki, JPN	55.05	David Berkoff, USA	55.18	Igor Polyansky, URS	55.20
1992	Mark Tewksbury, CAN	53.98	Jeff Rouse, USA	54.04	David Berkoff, USA	54.78
1996	Jeff Rouse, USA	54.10	Rodolfo Falcón, CUB	54.98	Neisser Bent, CUB	55.02
2000	Lenny Krayzelburg, USA	53.72	Matthew Welsh, AUS	54.07	Stev Theloke, GER	54.82
2004	Aaron Peirsol, USA	54.06	Markus Rogan, AUT	54.35	Tomomi Morita, JPN	54.36

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200-Meter Backstroke

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1900	Ernst Hoppenberg, GER	2:47.0	Karl Ruberl, AUT	2:56.0	Johannes Drost, NED	3:01.0
1904-60	Not held
1964	Jed Graef, USA	2:10.3	Gary Dilley, USA	2:10.5	Robert Bennett, USA	2:13.1
1968	Roland Matthes, GDR	2:09.6	Mitchell Ivey, USA	2:10.6	Jack Horsley, USA	2:10.9
1972	Roland Matthes, GDR	2:02.82	Michael Stamm, USA	2:04.09	Mitchell Ivey, USA	2:04.33
1976	John Naber, USA	1:59.19	Peter Rocca, USA	2:00.55	Dan Harrigan, USA	2:01.35
1980	Sándor Wladár, HUN	2:01.93	Zoltán Verrasztó, HUN	2:02.40	Mark Kerry, AUS	2:03.14
1984	Rick Carey, USA	2:00.23	Frédéric Delcourt, FRA	2:01.75	Cameron Henning, CAN	2:02.37
1988	Igor Polyansky, URS	1:59.37	Frank Baltrusch, GDR	1:59.60	Paul Kingsman, NZL	2:00.48
1992	Martín López-Zubero, ESP	1:58.47	Vladimir Selkov, EUN	1:58.87	Stefano Battistelli, ITA	1:59.40
1996	Brad Bridgewater, USA	1:58.54	William “Tripp” Schwenk, USA	1:58.99	Emanuele Merisi, ITA	1:59.18
2000	Lenny Krayzelburg, USA	1:56.76	Aaron Peirsol, USA	1:57.35	Matthew Welsh, AUS	1:57.59
2004	Aaron Peirsol, USA	1:54.95	Markus Rogan, AUT	1:57.37	Razvan Florea, ROM	1:57.56

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100-Meter Breaststroke

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1968	Donald McKenzie, USA	1:07.7	Vladimir Kosinsky, URS	1:08.0	Nikolay Pankin, URS	1:08.0
1972	Nobutaka Taguchi, JPN	1:04.94	Thomas Bruce, USA	1:05.43	John Hencken, USA	1:05.61
1976	John Hencken, USA	1:03.11	David Wilkie, GBR	1:03.43	Arvydas Juozaitis, URS	1:04.23
1980	Duncan Goodhew, GBR	1:03.44	Arsens Miskarovs, URS	1:03.82	Peter Evans, AUS	1:03.96
1984	Steve Lundquist, USA	1:01.65	Victor Davis, CAN	1:01.99	Peter Evans, AUS	1:02.97
1988	Adrian Moorhouse, GBR	1:02.04	Károly Güttler, HUN	1:02.05	Dmitriy Volkov, URS	1:02.20
1992	Nelson Diebel, USA	1:01.50	Norbert Rózsa, HUN	1:01.68	Phil Rogers, AUS	1:01.76
1996	Frédéric Deburghgraeve, BEL	1:00.65	Jeremy Linn, USA	1:00.77	Mark Warnecke, GER	1:01.33
2000	Domenico Fioravanti, ITA	1:00.46	Ed Moses, USA	1:00.73	Roman Sloudnov, RUS	1:00.91
2004	Kosuke Kitajima, JPN	1:00.08	Brendan Hansen, USA	1:00.25	Hugues Duboscq, FRA	1:00.88

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200-Meter Breaststroke

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1908	Frederick Holman, GBR	3:09.2	William Robinson, GBR	3:12.8	Pontus Hanson, SWE	3:14.6
1912	Walther Bathe, GER	3:01.8	Wilhelm Lützow, GER	3:05.0	Kurt Mahlisch, GER	3:08.0
1920	Håkan Malmroth, SWE	3:04.4	Thor Henning, SWE	3:09.2	Arvo Aaltonen, FIN	3:12.2
1924	Robert Skelton, USA	2:56.6	Joseph de Combe, BEL	2:59.2	William Kirschbaum, USA	3:01.0
1928	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, JPN	2:48.8	Erich Rademacher, GER	2:50.6	Teofilo Yldefonzo, PHI	2:56.4
1932	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, JPN	2:45.4	Reizo Koike, JPN	2:46.6	Teofilo Yldefonzo, PHI	2:47.1
1936	Tetsuo Hamuro, JPN	2:41.5	Erwin Sietas, GER	2:42.9	Reizo Koike, JPN	2:44.2
1948	Joseph Verdeur, USA	2:39.3	Keith Carter, USA	2:40.2	Robert Sohl, USA	2:43.9
1952	John Davies, AUS	2:34.4	Bowen Stassforth, USA	2:34.7	Herbert Klein, GER	2:35.9
1956	Masaru Furukawa, JPN	2:34.7	Masahiro Yoshimura, JPN	2:36.7	Kharis Yunichev, URS	2:36.8
1960	Bill Mulliken, USA	2:37.4	Yoshihiko Osaki, JPN	2:38.0	Wieger Mensonides, NED	2:39.7
1964	Ian O'Brien, AUS	2:27.8	Georgiy Prokopenko, URS	2:28.2	Chester Jastremski, USA	2:29.6
1968	Felipe “Pepe” Múñoz, MEX	2:28.7	Vladimir Kosinsky, URS	2:29.2	Brian Job, USA	2:29.9
1972	John Hencken, USA	2:21.55	David Wilkie, GBR	2:23.67	Nobutaka Taguchi, JPN	2:23.88
1976	David Wilkie, GBR	2:15.11	John Hencken, USA	2:17.26	Richard Colella, USA	2:19.20
1980	Robertas Zulpa, URS	2:15.85	Albán Vermes, HUN	2:16.93	Arsens Miskarovs, URS	2:17.28
1984	Victor Davis, CAN	2:13.34	Glenn Beringen, CAN	2:15.79	Etienne Dagon, SUI	2:17.41
1988	József Szabó, HUN	2:13.52	Nick Gillingham, GBR	2:14.12	Sergio López, ESP	2:15.21
1992	Mike Barrowman, USA	2:10.16	Norbert Rózsa, HUN	2:11.23	Nick Gillingham, GBR	2:11.29
1996	Norbert Rózsa, HUN	2:12.57	Károly Güttler, HUN	2:13.03	Andrey Korneyev, RUS	2:13.17
2000	Domenico Fioravanti, ITA	2:10.87	Terence Parkin, RSA	2:12.50	Davide Rummolo, ITA	2:12.73
2004	Kosuke Kitajima, JPN	2:09.44	Daniel Gyurta, HUN	2:10.80	Brendan Hansen, USA	2:10.87

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100-Meter Butterfly

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1968	Doug Russell, USA	55.9	Mark Spitz, USA	56.4	Ross Wales, USA	57.2
1972	Mark Spitz, USA	54.27	Bruce Robertson, CAN	55.56	Jerry Heidenreich, USA	55.74
1976	Matt Vogel, USA	54.35	Joe Bottom, USA	54.50	Gary Hall, USA	54.65
1980	Pär Arvidsson, SWE	54.92	Roger Pyttel, GDR	54.94	David López-Zubero, ESP	55.13
1984	Michael Gross, FRG	53.08	Pablo Morales, USA	53.23	Glenn Buchanan, AUS	53.85
1988	Anthony Nesty, SUR	53.00	Matt Biondi, USA	53.01	Andy Jameson, GBR	53.30
1992	Pablo Morales, USA	53.32	Rafal Szukala, POL	53.35	Anthony Nesty, SUR	53.41
1996	Denis Pankratov, RUS	52.27	Scott Miller, AUS	52.53	Vladislav Kulikov, RUS	53.13
2000	Lars Frölander, SWE	52.00	Michael Klim, AUS	52.18	Geoff Huegill, AUS	52.22
2004	Michael Phelps, USA	51.25	Ian Crocker, USA	51.29	Andriy Serdinov, UKR	51.36

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200-Meter Butterfly

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1956	William Yorzyk, USA	2:19.3	Takashi Ishimoto, JPN	2:23.8	György Tumpek, HUN	2:23.9
1960	Michael Troy, USA	2:12.8	Neville Hayes, AUS	2:14.6	David Gillanders, USA	2:15.3
1964	Kevin Berry, AUS	2:06.6	Carl Robie, USA	2:07.5	Fred Schmidt, USA	2:09.3
1968	Carl Robie, USA	2:08.7	Martin Woodroffe, GBR	2:09.0	John Ferris, USA	2:09.3
1972	Mark Spitz, USA	2:00.70	Gary Hall, USA	2:02.86	Robin Backhaus, USA	2:03.23
1976	Mike Bruner, USA	1:59.23	Steven Gregg, USA	1:59.54	Bill Forrester, USA	1:59.96
1980	Sergey Fesenko, URS	1:59.76	Phil Hubble, GBR	2:01.20	Roger Pyttel, GDR	2:01.39
1984	Jon Sieben, AUS	1:57.04	Michael Gross, FRG	1:57.40	Rafael Vidal, VEN	1:57.51
1988	Michael Gross, FRG	1:56.94	Benny Nielsen, DEN	1:58.24	Anthony Mosse, NZL	1:58.28
1992	Melvin Stewart, USA	1:56.26	Danyon Loader, NZL	1:57.93	Franck Esposito, FRA	1:58.51
1996	Denis Pankratov, RUS	1:56.51	Tom Malchow, USA	1:57.44	Scott Goodman, AUS	1:57.48
2000	Tom Malchow, USA	1:55.35	Denis Sylantyev, UKR	1:55.76	Justin Norris, AUS	1:56.17
2004	Michael Phelps	1:54.04	Takashi Yamamoto, JPN	1:54.56	Stephen Parry, GBR	1:55.52

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200-Meter Individual Medley

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1968	Charles Hickcox, USA	2:12.0	Gregory Buckingham, USA	2:13.0	John Ferris, USA	2:13.3
1972	Gunnar Larsson, SWE	2:07.17	Alexander “Tim” McKee, USA	2:08.37	Steven Furniss, USA	2:08.45
1976-80	Not held
1984	Alex Baumann, CAN	2:01.42	Pablo Morales, USA	2:03.05	Neil Cochran, GBR	2:04.38
1988	Tamás Darnyi, HUN	2:00.17	Patrick Kühl, GDR	2:01.61	Vadim Yaroshchuk, URS	2:02.40
1992	Tamás Darnyi, HUN	2:00.76	Gregory Burgess, USA	2:00.97	Attila Czene, HUN	2:01.00
1996	Attila Czene, HUN	1:59.91	Jani Sievinen, FIN	2:00.13	Curtis Myden, CAN	2:01.13
2000	Massimiliano Rosolino, ITA	1:58.98	Tom Dolan, USA	1:59.77	Tom Wilkins, USA	2:00.87
2004	Michael Phelps, USA	1:57.14	Ryan Lochte, USA	1:58.78	George Bovell, TRI	1:58.80

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400-Meter Individual Medley

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1964	Richard Roth, USA	4:45.4	Roy Saari, USA	4:47.1	Gerhard Hetz, GER	4:51.0
1968	Charles Hickcox, USA	4:48.4	Gary Hall, USA	4:48.7	Michael Holthaus, FRG	4:51.4
1972	Gunnar Larsson, SWE	4:31.98	Alexander “Tim” McKee, USA	4:31.98	András Hargitay, HUN	4:32.70
1976	Rod Strachan, USA	4:23.68	Alexander “Tim” McKee, USA	4:24.62	Andrey Smirnov, URS	4:26.90
1980	Aleksandr Sidorenko, URS	4:22.89	Sergey Fesenko, URS	4:23.43	Zoltán Verrasztó, HUN	4:24.24
1984	Alex Baumann, CAN	4:17.41	Ricardo Prado, BRA	4:18.45	Robert Woodhouse, AUS	4:20.50
1988	Tamás Darnyi, HUN	4:14.75	David Wharton , USA	4:17.36	Stefano Battistelli, ITA	4:18.01
1992	Tamás Darnyi, HUN	4:14.23	Eric Namesnik, USA	4:15.57	Luca Sacchi, ITA	4:16.34
1996	Tom Dolan, USA	4:14.90	Eric Namesnik, USA	4:15.25	Curtis Myden, CAN	4:16.28
2000	Tom Dolan, USA	4:11.76	Erik Vendt, USA	4:14.23	Curtis Myden, CAN	4:15.33
2004	Michael Phelps, USA	WR 4:08.26	Erik Vendt, USA	4:11.81	Laszlo Cseh, HUN	4:12.15

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4 x 100-Meter Freestyle Relay

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1964	United States	3:32.2	Germany	3:37.2	Australia	3:39.1
1968	United States	3:31.7	Soviet Union	3:34.2	Australia	3:34.7
1972	United States	3:26.42	Soviet Union	3:29.72	German D.R.	3:32.42
1976-80	Not held
1984	United States	3:19.03	Australia	3:19.68	Sweden	3:22.69
1988	United States	3:16.53	Soviet Union	3:18.33	German D.R.	3:19.82
1992	United States	3:16.72	Unified Team	3:17.56	Germany	3:17.90
1996	United States	3:15.41	Russia	3:17.06	Germany	3:17.20
2000	Australia	3:13.67	United States	3:13.86	Brazil	3:17.40
2004	Republic of South Africa	WR3:13.17	Netherlands	3:14.36	United States	3:14.62

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4 x 200-Meter Freestyle Relay

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1908	Great Britain	10:55.6	Hungary	10:59.0	United States	11:02.8
1912	Australia/New Zealand	10:11.6	United States	10:20.0	Great Britain	10:28.2
1920	United States	10:04.4	Australia	10:25.4	Great Britain	10:37.2
1924	United States	9:53.4	Australia	10:02.2	Sweden	10:06.8
1928	United States	9:36.2	Japan	9:41.4	Canada	9:47.8
1932	Japan	8:58.4	United States	9:10.5	Hungary	9:31.4
1936	Japan	8:51.5	United States	9:03.0	Hungary	9:12.3
1948	United States	8:46.0	Hungary	8:48.4	France	9:08.0
1952	United States	8:31.1	Japan	8:33.5	France	8:45.9
1956	Australia	8:23.6	United States	8:31.5	Soviet Union	8:34.7
1960	United States	8:10.2	Japan	8:13.2	Australia	8:13.8
1964	United States	7:52.1	Germany	7:59.3	Japan	8:03.8
1968	United States	7:52.33	Australia	7:53.77	Soviet Union	8:01.66
1972	United States	7:35.78	F.R. Germany	7:41.69	Soviet Union	7:45.76
1976	United States	7:23.22	Soviet Union	7:27.97	Great Britain	7:32.11
1980	Soviet Union	7:23.50	German D.R.	7:28.60	Brazil	7:29.30
1984	United States	7:15.69	F.R. Germany	7:15.73	Great Britain	7:24.78
1988	United States	7:12.51	German D.R.	7:13.68	F.R. Germany	7:14.35
1992	Unified Team	7:11.95	Sweden	7:15.51	United States	7:16.23
1996	United States	7:14.84	Sweden	7:17.56	Germany	7:17.71
2000	Australia	7:07.05	United States	7:12.64	Netherlands	7:12.70
2004	United States	7:07.33	Australia	7:07.46	Italy	7:11.83

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4 x 100-Meter Medley Relay

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1960	United States	4:05.4	Australia	4:12.0	Japan	4:12.2
1964	United States	3:58.4	Germany	4:01.6	Australia	4:02.3
1968	United States	3:54.9	German D.R.	3:57.5	Soviet Union	4:00.7
1972	United States	3:48.16	German D.R.	3:52.12	Canada	3:52.26
1976	United States	3:42.22	Canada	3:45.94	F.R. Germany	3:47.29
1980	Australia	3:45.70	Soviet Union	3:45.92	Great Britain	3:47.71
1984	United States	3:39.30	Canada	3:43.23	Australia	3:43.25
1988	United States	3:36.93	Canada	3:39.28	Soviet Union	3:39.96
1992	United States	3:36.93	Unified Team	3:38.56	Canada	3:39.66
1996	United States	3:34.84	Russia	3:37.55	Australia	3:39.56
2000	United States	3:33.73	Australia	3:35.27	Germany	3:35.88
2004	United States	WR3:30.68	Germany	3:33.62	Japan	3:35.22

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Discontinued Events

100-Meter Freestyle - Sailors

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1896	Ioannis Maloknis, GRE	2:20.4	Spyridon Chazapis, GRE	---	Dimitrios Drivas, GRE	---

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500-Meter Freestyle

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1896	Paul Neumann, AUT	8:12.6	Antonios Pepanos, GRE	9:57.6	Eustathios Korafas, GRE	---

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880-Yard Freestyle

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1904	Emil Rausch, GER	13:11.4	Francis Galley, USA	13:23.4	Géza Kiss, HUN	---

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1000-Meter Freestyle

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1900	John Arthur Jarvis, GBR	13:40.2	Otto Wahle, AUT	14:53.6	Zoltán Halmaj, HUN	15:16.4

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1200-Meter Freestyle

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1896	Arnold Guttmann (“Alfréd Hajós”), HUN	18:22.1	Ioannis Andreou, GRE	21:03.4	Eustathios Korafas (GRE)??	---

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4000-Meter Freestyle

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1900	John Arthur Jarvis, GBR	58:24.0	Zoltán Halmaj, HUN	1:08:55.4	Louis Martin, FRA	1:13:08.4

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400-Meter Backstroke
(440 yards in 1904)

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1904	Georg Zacharias, GER	7:23.6	Walter Brack, GER	---	Jamison Handy, USA	---
1906-08	Not held
1912	Walther Bathe, GER	6:29.6	Thor Henning, SWE	6:35.6	Percy Courtman, GBR	6:36.4
1920	Håkan Malmroth, SWE	6:31.8	Thor Henning, SWE	6:45.2	Arvo Aaltonen, FIN	6:48.0

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60-Meter Underwater

Year	Gold	Pts.	Silver	Pts.	Bronze	Pts.
1900	Charles de Vendeville, FRA	188.4	André Six, FRA	185.4	Peter Lykkeberg, DEN	147.0

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200-Meter Obstacle

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1900	Freddie Lane, AUS	2:38.4	Otto Wahle, AUT	2:40.0	Peter Kemp, GBR	2:47.4

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4x50-Yard Freestyle Relay

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1904	New York A.C. “A”, USA	2:04.6	Chicago A.C., USA	---	Missouri A.C., USA	---

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4x250-Meter Freestyle Relay

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1906	Hungary	16:52.4	Germany	17:16.2	Great Britain	---

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200-Meter Team

Year	Gold	Pts	Silver	Pts	Bronze	Pts
1900	Germany	33	Pupilles de Neptune de Lille, FRA	53	Tritons Lillois, FRA	59

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Plunge for Distance

Year	Gold	Dist.	Silver	Dist.	Bronze	Dist.
1904	William Dickey, USA	19.05m	Edgar Adams, USA	17.53m	Budd Goodwin, USA	17.37m

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