List of world records in swimming
Men
Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by FINA; Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

List of world records in swimming

Section Title: Men
Table Section Text: Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by FINA; Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Event	Time	Name	Nationality	Date	Meet	Location	Ref

50m freestyle	20.26	Florent Manaudou	France	5 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	, ​

100m freestyle	44.94	Amaury Leveaux	France	13 December 2008	European Championships	Rijeka, Croatia	, ​

200m freestyle	1:39.37	Paul Biedermann	Germany	15 November 2009	World Cup	Berlin, Germany

400m freestyle	3:32.25	Yannick Agnel	France	15 November 2012	French Nationals	Angers, France	, ​

800m freestyle	7:23.42	Grant Hackett	Australia	20 July 2008	Victoria Championships	Melbourne, Australia

1500m freestyle	14:08.06	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	4 December 2015	European Championships	Netanya, Israel

50m backstroke	22.22	Florent Manaudou	France	6 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	​

100m backstroke	48.88	Xu Jiayu	China	11 November 2018	World Cup	Tokyo, Japan	,​

200m backstroke	1:45.63	Mitch Larkin	Australia	27 November 2015	Australian Championships	Sydney, Australia	,​

50m breaststroke	25.25	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	14 November 2009	World Cup	Berlin, Germany

100m breaststroke	55.61	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	15 November 2009	World Cup	Berlin, Germany

200m breaststroke	2:00.16	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	13 December 2018	World Championships	Hangzhou, China	, ​

50m butterfly	21.75	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	6 October 2018	World Cup	Budapest, Hungary	,​

100m butterfly	48.08	Chad le Clos	South Africa	8 December 2016	World Championships	Windsor, Canada	,​

200m butterfly	1:48.24	Daiya Seto	Japan	11 December 2018	World Championships	Hangzhou, China	, ​

100m individual medley	50.26	=	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	28 September 2018	World Cup	Eindhoven, Netherlands

100m individual medley	50.26	=	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	9 November 2018	World Cup	Tokyo, Japan	, ​

200m individual medley	1:49.63	Ryan Lochte	United States	14 December 2012	World Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	, ​

400m individual medley	3:55.50	Ryan Lochte	United States	16 December 2010	World Championships	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	, ​

4×50m freestyle relay	1:21.80	(20.43)Caeleb Dressel (20.25)Ryan Held (20.59)Jack Conger (20.53)Michael Chadwick	United States	14 December 2018	World Championships	Hangzhou, China	, ​

4×50m freestyle relay	1:20.77	(20.64)Alain Bernard (20.33)Fabien Gilot (19.93)Amaury Leveaux (19.87)Frédérick Bousquet	France	14 December 2008	European Championships	Rijeka, Croatia

4×100m freestyle relay	3:03.03	(45.66)Caeleb Dressel (45.75)Blake Pieroni (45.86)Michael Chadwick (45.76)Ryan Held	United States	11 December 2018	World Championships	Hangzhou, China	, ​

4×200m freestyle relay	6:46.81	(1:42.03)Luiz Altamir Melo (1:40.99)Fernando Scheffer (1:42.81)Leonardo Coelho Santos (1:40.98)Breno Correia	Brazil	14 December 2018	World Championships	Hangzhou, China	, ​

4×50m medley relay	1:30.44	(22.83)Kliment Kolesnikov (25.26)Kirill Prigoda (22.11)Aleksandr Popkov (20.24)Vladimir Morozov	Russia	17 December 2017	European Championships	Copenhagen, Denmark

4×100m medley relay	3:19.16	(49.63)Stanislav Donets (56.43)Sergey Geybel (48.35)Yevgeny Korotyshkin (44.75)Danila Izotov	Russia	20 December 2009	Vladimir Salnikov Cup	Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Leveaux finished 100 m freestyle in 44.94 sec.

final_sentence: Leveaux finished 100 m freestyle in 44.94 sec.