Leet o Olympic records in soummin

The Internaitional Olympic Committee recognises the fastest performances in pool-based soummin events at the Olympic Gemmes. Men's soummin haes been pairt o the Simmer Olympics syne the Gemmes' modren inception in 1896; it wis nae til 1912 that weemen competit against each ether. The soummin events at the 1896 Olympic Gemmes wur held in a bay in the Aegean Sea wi soummers bein required tae soum tae the shore—Hungarian soummer Alfréd Hajós wan twa gowd medals that year, sayin "My will tae live completely owercame my desire tae win."  The 1900 Gemmes in Paris saw the soummin events tak place in the River Seine while the 1908 events wur hostit in a 100&nbsp;m pool locatit within an athletics track in the White Ceety Stadium in Lunnon.

Races are held in fower soummin strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke an butterflee, ower varyin distances an in aither individual or relay race events. In the 2012 Olympic Gemmes in Lunnon, baith men an weemen competit in saxteen events in the pool, each sex in the same events wi the exceptions o the 800&nbsp;m freestyle (weemen-anly) an the 1500&nbsp;m freestyle (men-anly). O the 32 pool-based events, soummers frae the Unitit States hauld saxteen records, Cheenae five, Australie fower, the Netherlands twa, an ane each tae Brasil, Fraunce, Great Breetain, Hungary, an Sooth Africae.

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## Men's records

*♦ denotes a performance that is also a current [[Warld records in swimmin|warld record]].  Statistics are correct as o 29 Julie 2012, durin the [[2012 Simmer Olympics]] in Lunnon an include only those events which are currently recognised bi the [[IOC]] as Olympic events.*
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|align=right|♦3:08.24&nbsp;
|Michael Phelps (47.51)Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02)Cullen Jones (47.65)Jason Lezak (46.06)
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|align=right|6:58.56&nbsp;
|Michael Phelps (1:43.31)Ryan Lochte (1:44.28)Ricky Berens (1:46.29)Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.68)
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|Aaron Peirsol (53.16)Brendan Hansen (59.27) Michael Phelps (50.15)Jason Lezak (46.76)
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## Women's records

*♦ denotes a performance that is also a current [[Warld records in swimmin|warld record]].  Statistics are correct as of 30 Julie 2012, durin the [[2012 Simmer Olympics]] in Lunnon an include only those events which are currently recognised bi the [[IOC]] as Olympic events.*
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|align=right|♦2:04.06&nbsp;
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|align=right|♦2:19.59&nbsp;
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|align=right|♦4:28.43&nbsp;
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|align=right|3:33.15&nbsp;
| (53.90)Cate Campbell (54.19)Brittany Elmslie (53.41)Melanie Schlanger (52.65)
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|align=right|7:42.92&nbsp;
| (1:55.96)Dana Vollmer (1:56.02)Shannon Vreeland (1:56.85)Allison Schmitt (1:54.09)
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|align=right|♦3:52.05&nbsp;
| (58.50)Rebecca Soni (1:04.82)Dana Vollmer (55.48)Allison Schmitt (53.25)
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## Fitnotes


Sullivan broke the Olympic an world record for the men's 100&nbsp;m freestyle in the seicont semifinal o the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Seebohm broke the Olympic record for the weemen's 100&nbsp;m backstroke in the fowert heat o the 2012 Summer Olympics.


## References