List of Olympic records in swimming
Men's records

List of Olympic records in swimming

Section Title: Men's records
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Event	Record	Name	Nation	Games	Date	Ref

50 m freestyle	21.30	César Cielo	Brazil (BRA)	2008 Beijing	16 August 2008

100 m freestyle	47.05	Eamon Sullivan	Australia (AUS)	2008 Beijing	13 August 2008

200 m freestyle	1:42.96	Michael Phelps	United States (USA)	2008 Beijing	12 August 2008

400 m freestyle	3:40.14	Sun Yang	China (CHN)	2012 London	28 July 2012

1500 m freestyle	♦14:31.02	Sun Yang	China (CHN)	2012 London	4 August 2012

100 m backstroke	♦51.85	Ryan Murphy	United States (USA)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	13 August 2016

200 m backstroke	1:53.41	Tyler Clary	United States (USA)	2012 London	2 August 2012

100 m breaststroke	57.13	Adam Peaty	Great Britain (GBR)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	7 August 2016

200 m breaststroke	2:07.22	Ippei Watanabe	Japan (JPN)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	9 August 2016

100 m butterfly	50.39	Joseph Schooling	Singapore (SGP)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	12 August 2016

200 m butterfly	1:52.03	Michael Phelps	United States (USA)	2008 Beijing	13 August 2008

200 m individual medley	1:54.23	Michael Phelps	United States (USA)	2008 Beijing	15 August 2008

400 m individual medley	♦4:03.84	Michael Phelps	United States (USA)	2008 Beijing	10 August 2008

4×100 m freestyle relay	♦3:08.24	Michael Phelps (47.51) Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02) Cullen Jones (47.65) Jason Lezak (46.06)	United States (USA)	2008 Beijing	11 August 2008

4×200 m freestyle relay	6:58.56	Michael Phelps (1:43.31) Ryan Lochte (1:44.28) Ricky Berens (1:46.29) Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.68)	United States (USA)	2008 Beijing	13 August 2008

4×100 m medley relay	3:27.95	Ryan Murphy (51.85) Cody Miller (59.03) Michael Phelps (50.33) Nathan Adrian (46.74)	United States (USA)	2016 Rio de Jainero	13 August 2016

Sentence(s)

On 9 August 2016, Watanabe broke the Olympic record for the men's 200 metre breaststroke event.

final_sentence: On 9 August 2016, Watanabe broke the Olympic record for the men's 200 metre breaststroke event.