List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in swimming.
Men's events
| OR | indicates swimmer broke the Olympic Record |
| WR | indicates swimmer broke the World Record (and Olympic Record) |
| AM | indicates swimmer broke the American Record |
| SA | indicates swimmer broke the South American Record |
| ER | indicates swimmer broke the European Record |
| AS | indicates swimmer broke the Asian Record |
| NR | indicates swimmer broke the National Record |
50 metre freestyle
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200 metre freestyle
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400 metre freestyle
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800 metre freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Tokyo |
Bobby Finke United States |
7:41.87 | Gregorio Paltrinieri Italy |
7:42.11 | Mykhailo Romanchuk Ukraine |
7:42.33 set OR in heats |
| 2024 Paris |
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7:38.19 OR |
Bobby Finke United States |
7:38.75 | Gregorio Paltrinieri Italy |
7:39.38 |
1500 metre freestyle
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100 metre backstroke
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200 metre backstroke
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100 metre breaststroke
200 metre breaststroke
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100 metre butterfly
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200 metre butterfly
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200 metre individual medley
400 metre individual medley
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4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
Note: since 1984, swimmers who competed only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
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Note: since 1984, swimmers who competed only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
4 × 100 metre medley relay
Note: since 1984, swimmers who competed only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
10 km marathon
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Beijing |
Maarten van der Weijden Netherlands |
1:51:51.6 | David Davies.svg.png){kind=small} Great Britain |
1:51:53.1 | Thomas Lurz Germany |
1:51:53.6 |
| 2012 London |
Oussama Mellouli Tunisia |
1:49:55.1 | Thomas Lurz Germany |
1:49:58.5 | Richard Weinberger.svg.png){kind=small} Canada |
1:50:00.3 |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro |
Ferry Weertman Netherlands |
1:52:59.8 | Spyridon Gianniotis Greece |
1:53:00.5 | Marc-Antoine Olivier France |
1:53:02.0 |
| 2020 Tokyo |
Florian Wellbrock Germany |
1:48:33.7 | Kristof Rasovszky Hungary |
1:48:59.0 | Gregorio Paltrinieri Italy |
1:49:01.1 |
| 2024 Paris |
Kristóf Rasovszky Hungary |
1:50:52.7 | Oliver Klemet Germany |
1:50:54.8 | Dávid Betlehem Hungary |
1:51:09.0 |
Mixed Events
4 × 100 metre medley relay
Discontinued events
50 yard freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 St. Louis |
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Charles Daniels United States
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100 metre for sailors
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 Athens |
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Spyridon Chazapis Greece
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Dimitrios Drivas Greece
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100 yard freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 St. Louis |
Zoltán Halmay Hungary
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Charles Daniels United States
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Scott Leary United States
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220 yard freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 St. Louis |
Charles Daniels United States
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440 yard freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 St. Louis |
Charles Daniels United States
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Francis Gailey Australia
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Otto Wahle Austria
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500 metre freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 Athens |
Paul Neumann Austria
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Antonios Pepanos Greece
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Efstathios Chorafas Greece
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880 yard freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 St. Louis |
Emil Rausch Germany
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Francis Gailey Australia
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Géza Kiss Hungary
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1000 metre freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 Paris |
John Arthur Jarvis Great Britain
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Otto Wahle Austria
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Zoltán Halmay Hungary
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1200 metre freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 Athens |
Alfréd Hajós Hungary
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Ioannis Andreou Greece
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1 mile freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 St. Louis |
Emil Rausch Germany
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Géza Kiss Hungary
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Francis Gailey Australia
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4000 metre freestyle
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 Paris |
John Arthur Jarvis Great Britain
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Zoltán Halmay Hungary
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Louis Martin France
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100 yard backstroke
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 St. Louis |
Walter Brack Germany
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Georg Hoffmann Germany
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Georg Zacharias Germany
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400 metre breaststroke
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 Stockholm |
Walter Bathe Germany
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Thor Henning Sweden
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Percy Courtman Great Britain
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| 1920 Antwerp |
Håkan Malmrot Sweden
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Thor Henning Sweden
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Arvo Aaltonen Finland
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440 yard breaststroke
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 St. Louis |
Georg Zacharias Germany
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Walter Brack Germany
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Jam Handy United States
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200 metre team race
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 Paris |
Germany (GER)[2] Ernst Hoppenberg Max Hainle Ernst Lührsen Gustav Lexau Herbert von Petersdorff |
France (FRA) Maurice Hochepied Victor Hochepied Joseph Bertrand Verbecke Victor Cadet |
France (FRA) René Tartara Louis Martin Désiré Mérchez Georges Leuillieux Philippe Houben |
4 × 50 yard freestyle relay
200 metre obstacle race
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 Paris |
Frederick Lane Australia
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Otto Wahle Austria
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Peter Kemp Great Britain
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Underwater swimming
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 Paris |
Charles Devendeville France
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André Six France
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Peder Lykkeberg Denmark
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All-time medal table – Swimming – Men – 1896–2024
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States (USA) | 143 | 100 | 71 | 314 |
| 2 |  Australia (AUS) | 33 | 37 | 38 | 108 |
| 3 | Germany (GER) | 18 | 22 | 26 | 66 |
| 4 |  Japan (JPN) | 17 | 22 | 21 | 60 |
| 5 | Hungary (HUN) | 16 | 17 | 13 | 46 |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 13 | 18 | 15 | 46 |
| 7 |  Soviet Union (URS) | 9 | 14 | 18 | 41 |
| 8 | Sweden (SWE) | 9 | 11 | 10 | 30 |
| 9 | France (FRA) | 6 | 8 | 13 | 27 |
| 10 | Canada (CAN) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 26 |
| 11 |  China (CHN) | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 12 | Italy (ITA) | 6 | 1 | 7 | 14 |
| 13 |  Unified Team (EUN) | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 14 |  Russia (RUS) | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 |
| 15 | Netherlands (NED) | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 16 | Tunisia (TUN) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 17 |  ROC (ROC) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 18 |  New Zealand (NZL) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 19 |  Austria (AUT) | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
| 20 |  Brazil (BRA) | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 |
| 21 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 22 |  South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 23 |  Australasia (ANZ) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 24 |  South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 25 | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 26 |  Romania (ROU) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
 Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 28 |  Suriname (SUR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 29 |  Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Mexico (MEX) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Singapore (SIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 33 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 34 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 35 |  Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 38 |  Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 41 |  Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 42 |  Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 43 |  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (44 entries) | 316 | 306 | 303 | 925 | |
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (men)
- List of gold medalist relay teams in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships
- List of top Olympic gold medalists in swimming
- Swimming at the Summer Olympics
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- List of Asian Games medalists in swimming
References
- ^ "1200m-freestyle-men". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
- ^ "Men's 200 metre team swimming". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- International Olympic Committee results database
- Wallechinsky, David (2000). The complete book of the Summer Olympics – Sydney 2000 edition. New York: Overlook Press. ISBN 1-58567-033-2.
- HistoFINA Swimming Medallists And Statistics At Olympic Games, January 31, 2015
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