Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships

Main article: 2009 World Aquatics Championships

The Swimming portion of the 13th FINA World Aquatics Championships was held at the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, Italy from Sunday 26 July – Sunday 2 August 2009. It featured 40 long course (50 m) events (20 for males, 20 for females; 17 individual events and 3 relays for each gender).

Competition schedule

The evening session schedule for the 2009 Worlds was:^[1]

Date	Sunday July 26, 2009	Monday July 27, 2009	Tuesday July 28, 2009	Wednesday July 29, 2009
E v e n t s	Women's 100 fly [sf] Men's 400 free Women's 200 IM [sf] Men's 50 fly [sf] Women's 400 free Men's 100 breast [sf] Women's 4 × 100 freestyle Men's 4 × 100 freestyle	Men's 100 breast Women's 100 fly Men's 100 back [sf] Women's 100 breast [sf] Men's 50 fly Women's 100 back [sf] Men's 200 free [sf] Women's 200 IM	Men's 200 free Women's 100 back Men's 50 breast [sf] Women's 1500 free Men's 100 back Women's 200 free [sf] Men's 200 fly [sf] Women's 100 breast	Men's 100 free [sf] Women's 50 back [sf] Men's 200 fly Women's 200 free Men's 50 breast Women's 200 fly [sf] Men's 200 IM [sf] Men's 800 free
Date	Thursday July 30, 2009	Friday July 31, 2009	Saturday August 1, 2009	Sunday August 2, 2009
E v e n t s	Women's 100 free [sf] Men's 200 IM Women's 200 breast [sf] Men's 100 free Women's 200 fly Men's 200 breast [sf] Women's 50 back Men's 200 back [sf] Women's 4 × 200 freestyle	Women's 100 free Men's 200 back Women's 50 fly [sf] Men's 50 free [sf] Women's 200 breast Men's 100 fly [sf] Women's 200 back [sf] Men's 200 breast Men's 4 × 200 freestyle	Women's 50 fly Men's 50 free Women's 200 back Women's 50 breast [sf] Men's 100 fly Women's 50 free [sf] Men's 50 back [sf] Women's 800 free Women's 4 × 100 medley	Men's 50 back Women's 50 breast Men's 400 IM Women's 50 free Men's 1500 free Women's 400 IM Men's 4 × 100 medley

Note: prelims/semifinals/finals were swum in events 200 m and shorter; prelims/finals in events 400 m or longer. For prelims/semifinals/finals events, prelims and semis were held on the same day, with finals being the evening of the following day. For the 400 m events and the 800 m relays, prelims and finals were held the same day. For the individual 800 m and 1500 m races, prelims were in the morning of one day, with finals in the evening of the next day. Preliminary sessions began at 9:00 a.m.; finals at 6:00 p.m.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	10	6	6	22
2	Germany (GER)	4	4	1	9
3	China (CHN)	4	2	4	10
4	Australia (AUS)	3	4	9	16
5	Italy (ITA)*	3	0	1	4
6	Great Britain (GBR)	2	3	2	7
7	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	3	6
8	Brazil (BRA)	2	1	0	3
	Serbia (SRB)	2	1	0	3
10	Russia (RUS)	1	5	1	7
11	Japan (JPN)	1	2	1	4
12	Tunisia (TUN)	1	2	0	3
13	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	1	1	0	2
16	South Africa (RSA)	1	0	2	3
17	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	1	2
18	France (FRA)	0	3	3	6
19	Canada (CAN)	0	2	1	3
20	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
21	Spain (ESP)	0	0	3	3
22	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		40	40	42	122

Medal winners

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	César Cielo Filho  Brazil	21.08 CR, AM	Frédérick Bousquet  France	21.21	Amaury Leveaux  France	21.25
100 m freestyle details	César Cielo Filho  Brazil	46.91 WR	Alain Bernard  France	47.12 ER	Frédérick Bousquet  France	47.25
200 m freestyle details	Paul Biedermann  Germany	1:42.00 WR	Michael Phelps  United States	1:43.22	Danila Izotov  Russia	1:43.90 NR
400 m freestyle details	Paul Biedermann  Germany	3:40.07 WR	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	3:41.11 AF	Zhang Lin  China	3:41.35 AS
800 m freestyle details	Zhang Lin  China	7:32.12 WR	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	7:35.27 AF	Ryan Cochrane  Canada	7:41.92 AM
1500 m freestyle details	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	14:37.28 AF	Ryan Cochrane  Canada	14:41.38	Sun Yang  China	14:46.84
50 m backstroke details	Liam Tancock  Great Britain	24.04 WR	Junya Koga  Japan	24.24 AS	Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa	24.34 AF
100 m backstroke details	Junya Koga  Japan	52.26 CR, AS	Helge Meeuw  Germany	52.54	Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain	52.64
200 m backstroke details	Aaron Peirsol  United States	1:51.92 WR	Ryosuke Irie  Japan	1:52.51 AS	Ryan Lochte  United States	1:53.82
50 m breaststroke details	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	26.67 WR	Felipe França Silva  Brazil	26.76 AM	Mark Gangloff  United States	26.86 NR
100 m breaststroke details	Brenton Rickard  Australia	58.58 WR	Hugues Duboscq  France	58.64 ER	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	58.95 AF
200 m breaststroke details	Dániel Gyurta  Hungary	2:07.64 ER	Eric Shanteau  United States	2:07.65	Giedrius Titenis  Lithuania Christian Sprenger  Australia	2:07.80 NR 2:07.80
50 m butterfly details	Milorad Čavić  Serbia	22.67 CR, NR	Matt Targett  Australia	22.73 OC	Rafael Muñoz  Spain	22.88
100 m butterfly details	Michael Phelps  United States	49.82 WR	Milorad Čavić  Serbia	49.95 ER	Rafael Muñoz  Spain	50.41 NR
200 m butterfly details	Michael Phelps  United States	1:51.51 WR	Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland	1:53.23 NR	Takeshi Matsuda  Japan	1:53.32
200 m individual medley details	Ryan Lochte  United States	1:54.10 WR	László Cseh  Hungary	1:55.24	Eric Shanteau  United States	1:55.36
400 m individual medley details	Ryan Lochte  United States	4:07.01	Tyler Clary  United States	4:07.31	László Cseh  Hungary	4:07.37
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79) Garrett Weber-Gale[a] Ricky Berens[a] Cullen Jones[a]	3:09.21 CR	Russia Evgeniy Lagunov (47.90) Andrey Grechin (47.00) Danila Izotov (47.23) Alexander Sukhorukov (47.39) Nikita Konovalov[a]	3:09.52 NR	France Fabien Gilot (47.73) Alain Bernard (46.46) Grégory Mallet (48.28) Frédérick Bousquet (47.42) Amaury Leveaux[a] William Meynard[a]	3:09.89
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46) Daniel Madwed[a] Davis Tarwater[a] Peter Vanderkaay[a]	6:58.55 WR	Russia Nikita Lobintsev (1:45.10) Mikhail Polischuk (1:45.42) Danila Izotov (1:44.48) Alexander Sukhorukov (1:44.15) Yevgeny Lagunov[a] Sergei Perunin[a]	6:59.15 ER	Australia Kenrick Monk (1:46.00) Robert Hurley (1:46.47) Tommaso D'Orsogna (1:44.82) Patrick Murphy (1:44.36) Nick Ffrost[a] Kirk Palmer[a]	7:01.65 OC
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States Aaron Peirsol (52.19) CR Eric Shanteau (58.57) Michael Phelps (49.72) David Walters (46.80) Matt Grevers[a] Mark Gangloff[a] Tyler McGill[a] Nathan Adrian[a]	3:27.28 WR	Germany Helge Meeuw (52.27) ER Hendrik Feldwehr (58.51) Benjamin Starke (50.91) Paul Biedermann (46.89)	3:28.58 ER	Australia Ashley Delaney (53.10) Brenton Rickard (57.80) Andrew Lauterstein (50.58) Matt Targett (47.16) Christian Sprenger[a]	3:28.64 OC

Legend: AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | CR Championship record | ER European record | OC Oceania record | WR World record | NR National record
^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Britta Steffen  Germany	23.73 WR	Therese Alshammar  Sweden	23.88 NR	Cate Campbell  Australia Marleen Veldhuis  Netherlands	23.99
100 m freestyle details	Britta Steffen  Germany	52.07 WR	Francesca Halsall  Great Britain	52.87 NR	Libby Trickett  Australia	52.93
200 m freestyle details	Federica Pellegrini  Italy	1:52.98 WR	Allison Schmitt  United States	1:54.96 AM	Dana Vollmer  United States	1:55.64
400 m freestyle details	Federica Pellegrini  Italy	3:59.15 WR	Joanne Jackson  Great Britain	4:00.60 NR	Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain	4:00.79
800 m freestyle details	Lotte Friis  Denmark	8:15.92 CR, NR	Joanne Jackson  Great Britain	8:16.66	Alessia Filippi  Italy	8:17.21 NR
1500 m freestyle details	Alessia Filippi  Italy	15:44.93 CR, ER	Lotte Friis  Denmark	15:46.30 NR	Camelia Potec  Romania	15:55.63
50 m backstroke details	Zhao Jing  China	27.06 WR	Daniela Samulski  Germany	27.23 ER	Gao Chang  China	27.28
100 m backstroke details	Gemma Spofforth  Great Britain	58.12 WR	Anastasia Zueva  Russia	58.18 NR	Emily Seebohm  Australia	58.88 OC
200 m backstroke details	Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe	2:04.81 WR	Anastasia Zueva  Russia	2:04.94 ER	Elizabeth Beisel  United States	2:06.39
50 m breaststroke details	Yuliya Efimova  Russia	30.09 WR	Rebecca Soni  United States	30.11 AM	Sarah Katsoulis  Australia	30.16 OC
100 m breaststroke details	Rebecca Soni  United States	1:04.93	Yuliya Efimova  Russia	1:05.41 ER	Kasey Carlson  United States	1:05.75
200 m breaststroke details	Nadja Higl  Serbia	2:21.62 ER	Annamay Pierse  Canada	2:21.84	Mirna Jukić  Austria	2:21.97 NR
50 m butterfly details	Marieke Guehrer  Australia	25.48 OC	Zhou Yafei  China	25.57 AS	Ingvild Snildal  Norway	25.58
100 m butterfly details	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	56.06 WR	Jessicah Schipper  Australia	56.23 OC	Jiao Liuyang  China	56.86 AS
200 m butterfly details	Jessicah Schipper  Australia	2:03.41 WR	Liu Zige  China	2:03.90 AS	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	2:04.28
200 m individual medley details	Ariana Kukors  United States	2:06.15 WR	Stephanie Rice  Australia	2:07.03 OC	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	2:07.46 ER
400 m individual medley details	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	4:30.31 CR, ER	Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe	4:32.12	Stephanie Rice  Australia	4:32.29
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Netherlands Inge Dekker (53.61) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.30) Frederike Heemskerk (53.03) Marleen Veldhuis (52.78) Hinkelien Schreuder[b]	3:31.72 WR	Germany Britta Steffen (52.22) WR Daniela Samulski (53.49) Petra Dallmann (53.75) Daniela Schreiber (52.37)	3:31.83 NR	Australia Libby Trickett (52.62) OC Marieke Guehrer (53.60) Shayne Reese (53.25) Felicity Galvez (53.54) Sally Foster[b] Meagen Nay[b]	3:33.01 OC
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	China Yang Yu (1:55.47) Zhu Qianwei (1:55.79) Liu Jing (1:56.09) Pang Jiaying (1:54.73)	7:42.08 WR	United States Dana Vollmer (1:55.29) Lacey Nymeyer (1:57.88) Ariana Kukors (1:55.18) Allison Schmitt (1:54.21) Dagny Knutson[b] Alyssa Anderson[b]	7:42.56 AM	Great Britain Joanne Jackson (1:55.98) Jazmin Carlin (1:56.78) Caitlin McClatchey (1:56.42) Rebecca Adlington (1:56.33) Hannah Miley[b]	7:45.51 ER
4 × 100 m medley relay details	China Zhao Jing (58.98) AS Chen Huijia (1:04.12) Jiao Liuyang (56.28) Li Zhesi (52.81)	3:52.19 WR	Australia Emily Seebohm (59.40) Sarah Katsoulis (1:04.65) Jessicah Schipper (56.19) Libby Trickett (52.34) Sally Foster[b] Stephanie Rice[b] Shayne Reese[b]	3:52.58 OC	Germany Daniela Samulski (59.85) Sarah Poewe (1:06.81) Annika Mehlhorn (57.14) Britta Steffen (51.99) Daniela Schreiber[b]	3:55.79 ER

Legend: AF African record | AM Americas record | AS Asian record | CR Championship record | ER European record | OC Oceania record | WR World record | NR National record
^b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Records

The following world and championship records were broken during the competition:

World records

Date	Round	Event	Established for	Time	Name	Nation
July 26	Semifinal 2	Women's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	56.44	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 26	Final	Men's 400 metre freestyle	(same)	3:40.07	Paul Biedermann	Germany
July 26	Semifinal 2	Women's 200 metre individual medley	(same)	2:07.03	Ariana Kukors	United States
July 26	Final	Women's 400 metre freestyle	(same)	3:59.15	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 26	Final	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Women's 100 metre freestyle	52.22	Britta Steffen	Germany
July 26	Final	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:31.72	Inge Dekker (53.61) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.30) Femke Heemskerk (53.03) Marleen Veldhuis (52.78)	Netherlands
July 27	Final	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	58.58	Brenton Rickard	Australia
July 27	Final	Women's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	56.06	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 27	Semifinal 2	Women's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	1:04.84	Rebecca Soni	United States
July 27	Semifinal 1	Women's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	58.48	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia
July 27	Final	Women's 200 metre individual medley	(same)	2:06.15	Ariana Kukors	United States
July 28	Final	Men's 200 metre freestyle	(same)	1:42.00	Paul Biedermann	Germany
July 28	Final	Women's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	58.12	Gemma Spofforth	United Kingdom
July 28	Semifinal 2	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	26.74	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
July 28	Semifinal 1	Women's 200 metre freestyle	(same)	1:53.67	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 29	Heat 4	Women's 200 metre butterfly	(same)	2:04.14	Mary DeScenza	United States
July 29	Semifinal 1	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.39	Daniela Samulski	Germany
July 29	Semifinal 2	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.38	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia
July 29	Final	Men's 200 metre butterfly	(same)	1:51.51	Michael Phelps	United States
July 29	Final	Women's 200 metre freestyle	(same)	1:52.98	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 29	Final	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	26.67	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
July 29	Final	Men's 800 metre freestyle	(same)	7:32.12	Zhang Lin	China
July 30	Final	Men's 200 metre individual medley	(same)	1:54.10	Ryan Lochte	United States
July 30	Semifinal 2	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:20.12	Annamay Pierse	Canada
July 30	Final	Men's 100 metre freestyle	(same)	46.91	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
July 30	Final	Women's 200 metre butterfly	(same)	2:03.41	Jessicah Schipper	Australia
July 30	Semifinal 1	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:07.31	Christian Sprenger	Australia
July 30	Final	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.06	Zhao Jing	China
July 30	Final	Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	(same)	7:42.08	Yang Yu (1:55.47) Zhu Qianwei (1:55.79) Liu Jing (1:56.09) Pang Jiaying (1:54.73)	China
July 31	Final	Women's 100 metre freestyle	(same)	52.07	Britta Steffen	Germany
July 31	Final	Men's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	1:51.92	Aaron Peirsol	United States
July 31	Semifinal 1	Women's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	25.28	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands
July 31	Semifinal 2	Women's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	25.07	Therese Alshammar	Sweden
July 31	Semifinal 2	Men's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	50.01	Milorad Čavić	Serbia
July 31	Final	Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	(same)	6:58.55	Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46)	United States
August 1	Final	Women's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	2:04.81	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
August 1	Final	Men's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	49.82	Michael Phelps	United States
August 1	Semifinal 1	Men's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	24.08	Liam Tancock	United Kingdom
August 1	Final	Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay	(same)	3:52.19	Zhao Jing (58.98) Chen Huijia (1:04.12) Jiao Liuyang (56.28) Li Zhesi (52.81)	China
August 2	Final	Men's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	24.04	Liam Tancock	United Kingdom
August 2	Final	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	30.09	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia
August 2	Final	Women's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	23.73	Britta Steffen	Germany
August 2	Final	Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay	(same)	3:27.28	Aaron Peirsol (52.19) Eric Shanteau (58.57) Michael Phelps (49.72) David Walters (46.80)	United States

Championship records

Date	Round	Event	Established for	Time	Name	Nation
July 26	Heat 9	Women's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	56.76	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 26	Heat 7	Women's 200 metre individual medley	(same)	2:08.53	Ariana Kukors	United States
July 26	Heat 20	Men's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	22.90	Roland Schoeman	South Africa
July 26	Heat 21	Men's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	=22.90	Rafael Muñoz	Spain
July 26	Heat 6	Women's 400 metre freestyle	(same)	4:01.96	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 26	Heat 14	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	58.98	Brenton Rickard	Australia
July 26	Heat 2	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:35.26	Sally Foster (54.18) Marieke Guehrer (53.47) Shayne Reese (53.19) Meagen Nay (54.42)	Australia
July 26	Heat 3	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:34.74	Britta Steffen (53.76) Daniela Samulski (53.81) Petra Dallmann (53.69) Daniela Schreiber (53.48)	Germany
July 26	Heat 4	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Women's 100 metre freestyle	53.02	Francesca Halsall	United Kingdom
July 26	Heat 3	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Men's 100 metre freestyle	47.77	Brent Hayden	Canada
July 26	Heat 3	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:12.58	Matthew Abood (48.35) Andrew Lauterstein (48.42) Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.82) Matt Targett (48.07)	Australia
July 26	Heat 4	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Men's 100 metre freestyle	47.52	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden
July 26	Heat 4	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:11.38	Amaury Leveaux (48.37) Grégory Mallet (47.78) William Meynard (48.11) Fabien Gilot (47.12)	France
July 26	Heat 5	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Men's 100 metre freestyle	47.39	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
July 26	Heat 5	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:11.26	César Cielo Filho (47.39) Nicolas Oliveira (47.51) Guilherme Roth (48.15) Fernando Silva (48.21)	Brazil
July 26	Semifinal 1	Men's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	22.68	Rafael Muñoz	Spain
July 26	Semifinal 2	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	58.96	Eric Shanteau	United States
July 26	Final	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Men's 100 metre freestyle	47.09	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
July 26	Final	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:09.21	Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79)	United States
July 27	Heat 11	Women's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	58.78	Gemma Spofforth	United Kingdom
July 27	Heat 10	Women's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	1:05.66	Rebecca Soni	United States
July 27	Heat 12	Men's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	52.93	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain
July 27	Semifinal 1	Men's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	52.39	Junya Koga	Japan
July 27	Final	Men's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	22.67	Milorad Čavić	Serbia
July 27	Semifinal 2	Men's 200 metre freestyle	(same)	1:43.65	Paul Biedermann	Germany
July 28	Heat 12	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	27.26	Barry Murphy	Ireland
July 28	Heat 15	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	27.15	Brenton Rickard	Australia
July 28	Heat 16	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	26.92	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
July 28	Final	Women's 100 metre backstroke	Women's 50 m backstroke	28.13	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia
July 28	Semifinal 1	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	=26.92	Felipe França Silva	Brazil
July 28	Final	Women's 1500 metre freestyle	(same)	15:44.93	Alessia Filippi	Italy
July 28	Final	Men's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	52.26	Junya Koga	Japan
July 29	Heat 12	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.85	Zhao Jing	China
July 29	Heat 13	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.65	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus
July 30	Heat 6	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:21.68	Annamay Pierse	Canada
July 30	Heat 5	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:09.28	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania
July 30	Heat 6	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:09.26	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov	Kazakhstan
July 30	Heat 7	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:09.22	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil
July 30	Heat 8	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:08.85	Loris Facci	Italy
July 30	Heat 9	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:08.55	Eric Shanteau	United States
July 30	Heat 1	Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	(same)	7:49.04	Caitlin McClatchey (1:57.54) Jazmin Carlin (1:56.45) Hannah Miley (1:58.15) Rebecca Adlington (1:56.90)	United Kingdom
July 30	Semifinal 1	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:20.93	Rebecca Soni	United States
July 30	Semifinal 1	Men's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	1:54.06	Aaron Peirsol	United States
July 31	Heat 21	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.64	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago
July 31	Heat 22	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.37	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
July 31	Heat 10	Women's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	25.74	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 31	Heat 13	Women's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	25.44	Therese Alshammar	Sweden
July 31	Heat 6	Women's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	2:06.72	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
July 31	Semifinal 1	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.29	Duje Draganja	Croatia
July 31	Semifinal 2	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.21	Frédérick Bousquet	France
July 31	Semifinal 2	Women's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	2:05.86	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
July 31	Swim-off	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.20	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago
August 1	Heat 17	Women's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	24.24	Cate Campbell	Australia
August 1	Heat 10	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	30.34	Kasey Carlson	United States
August 1	Heat 12	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	30.24	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia
August 1	Heat 13	Men's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	24.49	Guilherme Guido	Brazil
August 1	Final	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.08	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
August 1	Semifinal 1	Women's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	24.20	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands
August 1	Semifinal 2	Women's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	24.08	Cate Campbell	Australia
August 1	Final	Women's 800 metre freestyle	(same)	8:15.92	Lotte Friis	Denmark
August 2	Heat 3	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	(same)	3:29.48	Helge Meeuw (52.46) Hendrik Feldwehr (58.22) Benjamin Starke (51.11) Paul Biedermann (47.69)	Germany
August 2	Final	Women's 400 metre individual medley	(same)	4:30.31	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary
August 2	Final	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	Men's 100 m backstroke	52.19	Aaron Peirsol	United States

See also

• 2009 in swimming
• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics