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 (50m) 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:

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	César Cielo Filho Brazil	21.08 CR, AM	Frédérick Bousquet France	21.21	Amaury Leveaux France	21.25
100 m freestyle	César Cielo Filho Brazil	46.91 WR	Alain Bernard France	47.12 ER	Frédérick Bousquet France	47.25
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann Germany	1:42.00 WR	Michael Phelps United States	1:43.22	Danila Izotov Russia	1:43.90 NR
400 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann Germany	3:40.07 WR	Oussama Mellouli Tunisia	3:41.11 AF	Zhang Lin China	3:41.35 AS
800 m freestyle	Zhang Lin China	7:32.12 WR	Oussama Mellouli Tunisia	7:35.27 AF	Ryan Cochrane Canada	7:41.92 AM
1500 m freestyle	Oussama Mellouli Tunisia	14:37.28 AF	Ryan Cochrane Canada	14:41.38	Sun Yang China	14:46.84
50 m backstroke	Liam Tancock Great Britain	24.04 WR	Junya Koga Japan	24.24 AS	Gerhard Zandberg South Africa	24.34 AF
100 m backstroke	Junya Koga Japan	52.26 CR, AS	Helge Meeuw Germany	52.54	Aschwin Wildeboer Spain	52.64
200 m backstroke	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	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	Brenton Rickard Australia	58.58 WR	Hugues Duboscq France	58.64 ER	Cameron van der Burgh South Africa	58.95 AF
200 m breaststroke	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	Milorad Čavić Serbia	22.67 CR, NR	Matt Targett Australia	22.73 OC	Rafael Muñoz Spain	22.88
100 m butterfly	Michael Phelps United States	49.82 WR	Milorad Čavić Serbia	49.95 ER	Rafael Muñoz Spain	50.41 NR
200 m butterfly	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	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	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	United States Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79) Garrett Weber-Gale Ricky Berens Cullen Jones	3:09.21 CR	Russia Evgeniy Lagunov (47.90) Andrey Grechin (47.00) Danila Izotov (47.23) Alexander Sukhorukov (47.39) Nikita Konovalov	3:09.52 NR	France Fabien Gilot (47.73) Alain Bernard (46.46) Grégory Mallet (48.28) Frédérick Bousquet (47.42) Amaury Leveaux William Meynard	3:09.89
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	United States Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46) Daniel Madwed Davis Tarwater Peter Vanderkaay	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 Sergei Perunin	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) Nic Ffrost Kirk Palmer	7:01.65 OC
4 × 100 m medley relay	United States Aaron Peirsol (52.19) CR Eric Shanteau (58.57) Michael Phelps (49.72) David Walters (46.80) Matt Grevers Mark Gangloff Tyler McGill Nathan Adrian	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	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	Britta Steffen Germany	23.73 WR	Therese Alshammar Sweden	23.88 NR	Cate Campbell Australia Marleen Veldhuis Netherlands	23.99
100 m freestyle	Britta Steffen Germany	52.07 WR	Francesca Halsall Great Britain	52.87 NR	Libby Trickett Australia	52.93
200 m freestyle	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	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	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	Alessia Filippi Italy	15:44.93 CR, ER	Lotte Friis Denmark	15:46.30 NR	Camelia Potec Romania	15:55.63
50 m backstroke	Zhao Jing China	27.06 WR	Daniela Samulski Germany	27.23 ER	Gao Chang China	27.28
100 m backstroke	Gemma Spofforth Great Britain	58.12 WR	Anastasia Zueva Russia	58.18 NR	Emily Seebohm Australia	58.88 OC
200 m backstroke	Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe	2:04.81 WR	Anastasia Zueva Russia	2:04.94 ER	Elizabeth Beisel United States	2:06.39
50 m breaststroke	Yuliya Efimova Russia	30.09 WR	Rebecca Soni United States	30.11 AM	Sarah Katsoulis Australia	30.16 OC
100 m breaststroke	Rebecca Soni United States	1:04.93	Yuliya Efimova Russia	1:05.41 ER	Kasey Carlson United States	1:05.75
200 m breaststroke	Nadja Higl Serbia	2:21.62 ER	Annamay Pierse Canada	2:21.84	Mirna Jukić Austria	2:21.97 NR
50 m butterfly	Marieke Guehrer Australia	25.48 OC	Zhou Yafei China	25.57 AS	Ingvild Snildal Norway	25.58
100 m butterfly	Sarah Sjöström Sweden	56.06 WR	Jessicah Schipper Australia	56.23 OC	Jiao Liuyang China	56.86 AS
200 m butterfly	Jessicah Schipper Australia	2:03.41 WR	Liu Zige China	2:03.90 AS	Katinka Hosszú Hungary	2:04.28
200 m individual medley	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	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	Netherlands Inge Dekker (53.61) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.30) Frederike Heemskerk (53.03) Marleen Veldhuis (52.78) Hinkelien Schreuder	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 Meagen Nay	3:33.01 OC
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	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 Alyssa Anderson	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	7:45.51 ER
4 × 100 m medley relay	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 Stephanie Rice Shayne Reese	3:52.58 OC	Germany Daniela Samulski (59.85) Sarah Poewe (1:06.81) Annika Mehlhorn (57.14) Britta Steffen (51.99) Daniela Schreiber	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

References

• Omega Timing Book of Results