World Records
The fastest times ever recorded in long course (50m) swimming
| EVENT | TIME |
|---|---|
50m Freestyle César Cielo 🇧🇷 | 20.91 |
100m Freestyle David Popovici 🇷🇴 | 46.86 |
200m Freestyle Paul Biedermann 🇩🇪 | 1:42.00 |
400m Freestyle Paul Biedermann 🇩🇪 | 3:40.07 |
800m Freestyle Zhang Lin 🇨🇳 | 7:32.12 |
1500m Freestyle Sun Yang 🇨🇳 | 14:31.02 |
50m Backstroke Hunter Armstrong 🇺🇸 | 23.71 |
100m Backstroke Thomas Ceccon 🇮🇹 | 51.60 |
200m Backstroke Aaron Peirsol 🇺🇸 | 1:51.92 |
50m Breaststroke Adam Peaty 🇬🇧 | 25.95 |
100m Breaststroke Adam Peaty 🇬🇧 | 56.88 |
200m Breaststroke Qin Haiyang 🇨🇳 | 2:05.95 |
50m Butterfly Andriy Govorov 🇺🇦 | 22.27 |
100m Butterfly Caeleb Dressel 🇺🇸 | 49.45 |
200m Butterfly Kristóf Milák 🇭🇺 | 1:50.73 |
200m IM Ryan Lochte 🇺🇸 | 1:54.00 |
400m IM Léon Marchand 🇫🇷 | 4:02.50 |
About World Records
World records shown are for long course (50m pool) swimming events sanctioned by World Aquatics (formerly FINA). Times are updated after official ratification. Short course (25m) records are maintained separately.