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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle
Men's 200 m freestyle, Athens 2004 Olympics, the "Race of the Century": Ian Thorpe won gold in 1:44.71 (Olympic record), beating defending champion Pieter van den Hoogenband (1:45.23) and Michael Phelps (1:45.32) on 16 August 2004.
Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio de Janeiro, 6–13 August 2016): 32 pool and open-water events at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium and Fort Copacabana; USA won 16 golds, Phelps and Ledecky starred, eight world records, Russian doping controversy.
Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Swimming at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: 35 pool events at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, first mixed 4x100m medley relay, two world records, and a US-leading 30 medals.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics: pool swimming at Paris La Défense Arena, 27 July–4 August 2024, 35 events, 854 swimmers from 187 nations; USA led with 28 medals, Marchand won four golds, four world records set.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100-metre freestyle
Men's 100m freestyle, Paris 2024 Olympics, 30-31 July at Paris La Défense Arena. Pan Zhanle (China) won gold in a world record 46.40, beating Kyle Chalmers (47.48) and David Popovici (47.49) by over a second.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100-metre medley relay
The men's 4 × 100-meter medley relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics was won by China in 3:27.46, ending the United States' 64-year Olympic hold on the event.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 50-metre freestyle
Men's 50m freestyle at Paris 2024: one-lap sprint held 1–2 August 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena. Cameron McEvoy (AUS) won gold in 21.25, ahead of Benjamin Proud (21.30) and Florent Manaudou (21.56).
Swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships
Swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships: 42 pool medal events, 27 July–3 August 2025, World Aquatics Championships Arena, Singapore Sports Hub. Qin Haiyang, Summer McIntosh, Léon Marchand, and Gretchen Walsh starred; US women set a 3:49.34 medley relay championship record.
Swimming at the 2026 Asian Games
Swimming at the 2026 Asian Games (Aichi-Nagoya): 41 events held 20-25 September 2026 at Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Shin Ohashi set a 200m breaststroke world record (2:04.83); Zhang Zhanshuo won seven golds; China took a record 30 swimming golds.
Swimming at the 2026 Commonwealth Games
Swimming at the 2026 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow 2026): race swimming and para-swimming at Tollcross International Swimming Centre, 24-29 July 2026; largest program ever with 56 medal events, debuts of men's 800m and women's 1500m freestyle.
Swimming at the 2026 Mediterranean Games
Swimming at the 2026 Mediterranean Games (Taranto, 21 Aug-3 Sep 2026): 41 pool events (20 men's, 20 women's, 1 mixed medley) at the new Torre d'Ayala Stadio del Nuoto; Italy led with 51 medals.
Swimming at the Summer Olympics
Swimming at the Summer Olympics: pool racing discipline contested at every Games since 1896, also called Olympic swimming. Governed by World Aquatics (FINA); 35 pool events plus 10 km marathon swimming; US leads with 614 medals.
Swimming pool
Swimming pool: human-made basin for recreation, exercise, and competition, from backyard basins to 50 m Olympic venues (50 m × 25 m, 10 lanes). Covers hydraulics (skimmer vs gutter/rim-flow, turnover), chlorination chemistry, evaporation, costs, safety, and post-2023 depth and drought rules.
Swimming stroke
Swimming stroke: the four competitive strokes, freestyle (front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly, their history from breaststroke and the Australian crawl to the 1926 butterfly, and their differing energy costs and biomechanics.
Sybille Reinhardt
Sybille Reinhardt (born 1957, Pirna), also Sybille Reinhardt-Tietze, East German rower; Olympic gold in women's coxed quadruple sculls at Moscow 1980 (3:15.32), world titles 1974, 1977, 1979; later artist, author of Schattengold (2008).
Sybille Schmidt
Sybille Schmidt (born 1967, Apolda) is a German rower, Olympic champion in the women's quadruple sculls at Barcelona 1992 (6:20.18) and world champion in the event in 1989, 1990, and 1991.
Sydney Battersby
Sydney Battersby (Thomas Sydney Battersby, 1887-1974), British freestyle swimmer for Wigan SC; 1908 Olympic silver in 1500 m freestyle, 1912 relay bronze, 400 m world record 5:35.8 in 1911, later emigrated to Australia.
Sydney Payne
Sydney Payne (born 1997) is a Canadian rower, women's eight specialist; Olympic gold Tokyo 2020, silver Paris 2024, two U23 world titles, Cal Berkeley alumna.
Sylvi Saimo
Sylvi Saimo (Sylvi Riitta Saimo, née Sikiö, 1914–2004), Finnish kayak racer, farmer, and Centre Party politician; won the women's K1 500 m gold at Helsinki 1952, the first summer Olympic gold by a Finnish woman, after two 1950 world titles.
Sylvia Gerasch
Sylvia Gerasch, born 1969 in Cottbus, East German and German breaststroke swimmer; 1986 world champion 100 m breaststroke (WR 1:08.11) and medley relay; banned 1993-96 for caffeine doping; swam at Sydney 2000.
Sylvia Ruuska
Sylvia Eliina Ruuska (1942-2019), American swimmer; 1956 Olympic bronze 400 m freestyle and silver 4x100 m freestyle relay at age 14; 1960 Rome team captain; five world medley records.
Sylvie Bernier
Sylvie Bernier (born 1964, Sainte-Foy, Quebec), Canadian diver; won 3m springboard gold at Los Angeles 1984 with 530.70, Canada's first and only Olympic diving gold and first Quebec woman Olympic champion.
Sylvie Frechette
Sylvie Fréchette is a Canadian synchronized swimmer, born in Montréal in 1967, who won solo Olympic gold at Barcelona 1992 and team silver at Atlanta 1996.
Synchronised swimming
Synchronised swimming, also known as water ballet, is an aquatic sport combining swimming, dance, and acrobatics; renamed artistic swimming in 2017, it has been an Olympic event since 1984.
Szebasztian Szabo
Szebasztian Szabó (Szabó Szebasztián, born 1996, Frankfurt am Main) is a Hungarian sprint swimmer, former Serbian competitor, who tied the 50 m butterfly short-course world record at 21.75 in 2021 and swam at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
Tage Henriksen
Tage Henriksen (1925–2016), Danish rower, Olympic gold medalist in men's coxed pairs at the 1948 London Games with Finn Pedersen and cox Carl-Ebbe Andersen; also a three-time Danish champion and 1947 European bronze medalist.
Takashi Hirose
Takashi "Halo" Hirose (1922-2002), Maui-born American swimmer of the Three-Year Swim Club; first AJA to represent the US internationally, 1938 world-record relay, 442nd Regimental Combat Team veteran, NCAA champion, 2017 International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee.
Takashi Ishimoto
Takashi Ishimoto (石本隆), born 1935 in Aki, Kochi, Japanese butterfly swimmer; 1956 Olympic 200 m butterfly silver in 2:23.8, 100 m fly world record holder 1957-1960, triple gold at the 1958 Tokyo Asian Games.
Takashi Yokoyama
Takashi Yokoyama (横山隆志, 1913–1945), Japanese freestyle swimmer; 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay in world record time (8:58.4), fourth in the 400 m freestyle; not the Pancrase fighter or researchers of the same name.
Take Off Personal Surftraining
Take Off Personal Surftraining, independent surf school in Lanzarote founded 2022 by ISA coach Conrad Bitter; tide-based lessons at Famara, surfskate, private coaching, DE/EN/ES, distinct from Starboard's Take Off foilboard.