Current FINA World Records

[Willie D]

Because you gotta have a goal...

Long course (50m) distances, in seconds (name, nationality, year)

Men:
50 free: 21.64 (Alexander Popov, Russia, 2000)
100 free: 47.84 (Pieter Van den Hogenband, Netherlands, 2000)
200 free: 1:44.06 (Ian Thorpe, Australia, 2001)
400 free: 3:40.08 (Ian Thorpe, Australia, 2002)
800 free: 7:38.65 (Grant Hackett, Australia, 2005)
1500 free: 14:34.56 (Grant Hackett, Australia, 2001)
100 back: 53.17 (Aaron Piersall, USA, 2005)
200 back: 1:54:44 (Aaron Piersall, USA, 2006)
100 breast: 59.13 (Brendan Hansen, USA, 2006)
200 breast: 2:08.50 (Brendan Hansen, USA, 2006) - that is incredible!
100 fly: 50.40 (Ian Crocker, USA, 2005)
200 fly: 1:53.80 (Michael Phelps, USA, 2006)
200 IM: 1:55.84 (Michael Phelps, USA, 2006)
400 IM: 4:08.26 (Michael Phellps, USA, 2004) - wow!

Women:
50 free: 24.13 (Inga deBruijn, Netherlands, 2000)
100 free: 53.30 (Britta Steffen, Germany, 2006)
200 free: 1:56.64 (Franzizka von Almsick, Germany, 2002)
400 free: 4:02.13 (Laurie Manaudou, France, 2006)
800 free: 8:16.22 (Janet Evans, USA, 1989)
1500 free: 15:52.10 (Janet Evans, USA, 1988)
100 back: 59.58 (Natalie Coughlin, USA, 2002)
200 back: 2:06.62 (Kristina Egerszegi, Hungary, 1991)
100 breast: 1:05.09 (Liesel Jones, Australia, 2006)
200 breast: 2:20.54 (Liesel Jones, Australia, 2006)
100 fly: 56.61 (Inga deBruijn, Netherlands, 2000)
200 fly: 2:05.40 (Jessica Schipper, Australia, 2006)
200IM: 2:09.72 (Yanyan Wu, China, 1997) - back in the Chinese steroid days
400IM: 4:33.59 (Yana Klochlova, 2000)

trivia: Mary T. Meagher's world record in the women's 200 fly (set in 1981 and unbroken for 21 years) is still only .56 off the current record.

[griffo2]

It was a buzz here in the City of Melbourne Australia where this event was held...How good is Mr Phellps....6 gold Medals plus records brocken.(not sure how many he smashed,3 I think) Pity the team got disqualified for the 200 individual relay....he would have had a 7th gold.

Keep a eye on this young man...He will be the worlds greatest all time swimmer.IMHO.

[Willie D]

I hate to sound like the "ugly American" here, and Lord knows I respect the Aussie distance swimmers, but it was pure joy to watch the 800 free relay team just obliterate the rest of the field, and the world record.

[booooooo]

I don't know how much motivation a world record time is for us mortal people.