World and Olympic records set at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Men

World and Olympic records set at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Section Title: Men
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Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record	Day

Men's 100 m breaststroke	August 9	Heat 7	Alexander Dale Oen	Norway	59.41	OR	1

Men's 400 m individual medley	August 9	Heat 4	Michael Phelps	United States	4:07.82	OR	1

Men's 100 m backstroke	August 10	Heat 4	Matt Grevers	United States	53.41	OR	2

Men's 100 m breaststroke	August 10	Semifinal 2	Alexander Dale Oen	Norway	59.16	OR	2

Men's 400 m individual medley	August 10	Final	Michael Phelps	United States	4:03.84	WR	2

Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	August 10	Heat 1	Nathan Adrian (48.82) Cullen Jones (47.61) Ben Wildman-Tobriner (48.03) Matt Grevers (47.77)	United States	3:12.23	WR	2

Men's 100 m freestyle	August 10	Heat 1 leadoff*	Amaury Leveaux	France	47.76	OR	2

Men's 100 m backstroke	August 11	Semifinal 1	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	53.06	OR	3

Men's 100 m backstroke	August 11	Semifinal 2	Hayden Stoeckel	Australia	52.97	OR	3

Men's 100 m breaststroke	August 11	Final	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	58.91	WR	3

Men's 200 m butterfly	August 11	Heat 6	Michael Phelps	United States	1:53.70	OR	3

Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	August 11	Final	Michael Phelps (47.51) Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02) Cullen Jones (47.65) Jason Lezak (46.06)	United States	3:08.24	WR	3

Men's 100 m freestyle	August 11	Final leadoff*	Eamon Sullivan	Australia	47.24	WR	3

Men's 200 m freestyle	August 12	Final	Michael Phelps	United States	1:42.96	WR	4

Men's 100 m backstroke	August 12	Final	Aaron Peirsol	United States	52.54	WR	4

Men's 200 m breaststroke	August 12	Heat 5	Paolo Bossini	Italy	2:08.98	OR	4

Men's 200 m breaststroke	August 12	Heat 7	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:08.68	OR	4

Men's 200 m butterfly	August 12	Semifinal 2	Michael Phelps	United States	1:53.70	OR	4

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	August 12	Heat 2	David Walters (1:46.57) Ricky Berens (1:45.47) Erik Vendt (1:47.11) Klete Keller (1:45.51)	United States	7:04.66	OR	4

Men's 100 m freestyle	August 13	Semifinal 1	Alain Bernard	France	47.20	WR	5

Men's 100 m freestyle	August 13	Semifinal 2	Eamon Sullivan	Australia	47.05	WR	5

Men's 200 m breaststroke	August 13	Semifinal 1	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:08.61	OR	5

Men's 200 m butterfly	August 13	Final	Michael Phelps	United States	1:52.03	WR	5

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	August 13	Final	Michael Phelps (1:43.31) Ryan Lochte (1:44.28) Ricky Berens (1:46.29) Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.68)	United States	6:58.56	WR	5

Men's 50 m freestyle	August 14	Heat 11	César Cielo	Brazil	21.47	OR	6

Men's 50 m freestyle	August 14	Heat 12	Amaury Leveaux	France	21.46	OR	6

Men's 100 m butterfly	August 14	Heat 7	Jason Dunford	Kenya	51.14	OR	6

Men's 100 m butterfly	August 14	Heat 9	Milorad Čavić	Serbia	50.76	OR	6

Men's 50 m freestyle	August 15	Semifinal 1	César Cielo	Brazil	21.34	OR	7

Men's 1500 m freestyle	August 15	Heat 3	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	14:40.84	OR	7

Men's 1500 m freestyle	August 15	Heat 5	Grant Hackett	Australia	14:38.92	OR	7

Men's 200 m backstroke	August 15	Final	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:53.94	WR	7

Men's 200 m individual medley	August 15	Final	Michael Phelps	United States	1:54.23	WR	7

Men's 50 m freestyle	August 16	Final	César Cielo	Brazil	21.30	OR	8

Men's 100 m butterfly	August 16	Final	Michael Phelps	United States	50.58	OR	8

Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	August 17	Final	Aaron Peirsol (53.16) Brendan Hansen (59.27) Michael Phelps (50.15) Jason Lezak (46.76)	United States	3:29.34	WR	9

Sentence(s)

Jason Lezak in his final round of 4 × 100 m freestyle relay swam in time of 46.06.

final_sentence: Jason Lezak in his final round of 4 × 100 m freestyle relay swam in time of 46.06.