page_title: List of Australian Olympic medallists in swimming
section_title: All medallists
hierarchical_section_title: List of Australian Olympic medallists in swimming / All medallists
caption_attribution_description: Australian swimmer Leisel Jones at the Melbourne homecoming parade for 2008 Olympic Team.
context_page_description: Australia has competed in swimming at the Summer Olympics since the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, after only sending a runner, Edwin Flack, to the 1896 Summer Olympics. Frederick Lane was Australia's sole swimming representative at the 1900 Games, winning two individual gold medals. Women's events were added at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm; Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, Australia's first female representatives, won gold and silver in the 100-metre freestyle, which was the first women's event on the program. At the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics, Australia competed as Australasia, sending a combined team with New Zealand. The table includes Malcolm Champion, a New Zealander who was part of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay team that captured gold in 1912.
  Australia has won a total of 58 gold medals in the sport, second only to the United States, who have won 217. East Germany is in third place with 32 golds, although this is widely attributed to state-sponsored systematic doping programs.
  Swimming is Australia's most prolific Olympic sport, having been responsible for 58 of Australia's 143 Olympic gold medals.
context_section_description: The following table includes all those who have won medals, including as part of relay teams. Since 1984, swimmers who participated in the preliminary heats but not in the final were awarded medals if the final team went on to claim a medal, whereas those prior to 1984 did not. Those who swam in the heats only are marked with an asterisk, multiple times if multiple medals were awarded for swimming in heats only. Malcolm Champion, a member of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay team in 1912, was a New Zealander, competing as part of the combined Australasia team. His teammates in the combined relay team were Cecil Healy, Les Boardman, and Harold Hardwick.
  Ian Thorpe is the most decorated Australian Olympian of all time, in terms of gold medals. His three gold and two silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics are the largest total in a single Olympics by an Australian.
  Dawn Fraser and Murray Rose jointly held the previous records for gold medals, and Fraser the record of eight medals in total, prior to Thorpe.
  Sandra Morgan, a member of the Australian women's 4×100-metre freestyle relay team in 1956, is the youngest Australian gold medallist of all time, aged 14 years and 6 months.
caption: Leisel Jones has won nine Olympic medals, equalling Ian Thorpe as the most won by any Australian.
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