Michael Phelps
World records
Phelps has set 39 world records (29 individual, 10 relay), which is more records than any other swimmer that is recognized by FINA; this achievement surpassed Mark Spitz's previous record of 33 world records (26 individual, 7 relay).

Michael Phelps

Section Title: World records
Table Section Text: Phelps has set 39 world records (29 individual, 10 relay), which is more records than any other swimmer that is recognized by FINA; this achievement surpassed Mark Spitz's previous record of 33 world records (26 individual, 7 relay).

No.	Distance	Event	Time	Location	Date	Ref

1	200 m	Butterfly	1:54.92	Austin, Texas, US	March 30, 2001

2	200 m	Butterfly (2)	1:54.58	Fukuoka, Japan	July 24, 2001

3	400 m	Individual medley	4:11.09	Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, US	August 15, 2002

4	4 × 100 m	Medley relay	3:33.48	Yokohama, Japan	August 29, 2002

5	400 m	Individual medley (2)	4:10.73	Indianapolis, Indiana, US	April 6, 2003

6	200 m	Individual medley	1:57.94	Santa Clara, California, US	June 29, 2003

7	200 m	Butterfly (3)	1:53.93	Barcelona, Spain	July 22, 2003

8	200 m	Individual medley (2)	1:57.52	Barcelona, Spain	July 24, 2003

9	100 m	Butterfly	0:51.47	Barcelona, Spain	July 25, 2003

10	200 m	Individual medley (3)	1:56.04	Barcelona, Spain	July 25, 2003

11	400 m	Individual medley (3)	4:09.09	Barcelona, Spain	July 27, 2003

12	200 m	Individual medley (4)	1:55.94	College Park, Maryland, US	August 9, 2003

13	400 m	Individual medley (4)	4:08.41	Long Beach, California, US	July 7, 2004

14	400 m	Individual medley (5)	4:08.26	Athens, Greece	August 14, 2004

15	200 m	Butterfly (4)	1:53.80	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	August 17, 2006

16	4 × 100 m	Freestyle relay	3:12.46	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	August 19, 2006

17	200 m	Individual medley (5)	1:55.84	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	August 20, 2006

18	200 m	Butterfly (5)	1:53.71	Columbia, Missouri, US	February 17, 2007

19	200 m	Freestyle	1:43.86	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	March 27, 2007

20	200 m	Butterfly (6)	1:52.09	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	March 28, 2007

21	200 m	Individual medley (6)	1:54.98	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	March 29, 2007

22	4 × 200 m	Freestyle relay	7:03.24	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	March 30, 2007

23	400 m	Individual medley (6)	4:06.22	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	April 1, 2007

24	400 m	Individual medley (7)	4:05.25	Omaha, Nebraska, US	June 29, 2008

25	200 m	Individual medley (7)	1:54.80	Omaha, Nebraska, US	July 4, 2008

26	400 m	Individual medley (8)	4:03.84	Beijing, China	August 10, 2008

27	4 × 100 m	Freestyle relay (2)	3:08.24	Beijing, China	August 11, 2008

28	200 m	Freestyle (2)	1:42.96	Beijing, China	August 12, 2008

29	200 m	Butterfly (7)	1:52.03	Beijing, China	August 13, 2008

30	4 × 200 m	Freestyle relay (2)	6:58.56	Beijing, China	August 13, 2008

31	200 m	Individual medley (8)	1:54.23	Beijing, China	August 15, 2008

32	4 × 100 m	Medley relay (2)	3:29.34	Beijing, China	August 17, 2008

33	100 m	Butterfly (2)	0:50.22	Indianapolis, Indiana, US	July 9, 2009

34	200 m	Butterfly (8)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	July 29, 2009

35	4 × 200 m	Freestyle relay (3)	6:58.55	Rome, Italy	July 31, 2009

36	100 m	Butterfly (3)	0:49.82	Rome, Italy	August 1, 2009

37	4 × 100 m	Medley relay (3)	3:27.28	Rome, Italy	August 2, 2009

38	4 × 100 m	Medley relay (sc)	3:20.71	Manchester, United Kingdom	December 18, 2009

39	4 × 100 m	Freestyle relay (sc)	3:03.30	Manchester, United Kingdom	December 19, 2009

Sentence(s)

Phelps set the world record of 3:12.46.

final_sentence: Phelps set the world record of 3:12.46.