This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in swimming.
OR | indicates swimmer broke the Olympic Record |
WR | indicates swimmer broke the World Record (and Olympic Record) |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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2020 Tokyo | Bobby Finke United States | 7:41.87 | Gregorio Paltrinieri Italy | 7:42.11 | Mykhailo Romanchuk Ukraine | 7:42.33 set OR in heats |
2024 Paris | Daniel Wiffen Ireland | 7:38.19 OR | Bobby Finke United States | 7:38.75 | Gregorio Paltrinieri Italy | 7:39.38 |
Note: since 1984, swimmers who competed only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
Note: since 1984, swimmers who competed only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
Note: since 1984, swimmers who competed only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Zoltán Halmay Hungary | Scott Leary United States | Charles Daniels United States |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1896 Athens | Ioannis Malokinis Greece | Spyridon Chazapis Greece | Dimitrios Drivas Greece |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Zoltán Halmay Hungary | Charles Daniels United States | Scott Leary United States |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Charles Daniels United States | Francis Gailey Australia | Emil Rausch Germany |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Charles Daniels United States | Francis Gailey Australia | Otto Wahle Austria |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1896 Athens | Paul Neumann Austria | Antonios Pepanos Greece | Efstathios Chorafas Greece |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Emil Rausch Germany | Francis Gailey Australia | Géza Kiss Hungary |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1900 Paris | John Arthur Jarvis Great Britain | Otto Wahle Austria | Zoltán Halmay Hungary |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1896 Athens | Alfréd Hajós Hungary | Ioannis Andreou Greece | none awarded [1] |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Emil Rausch Germany | Géza Kiss Hungary | Francis Gailey Australia |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1900 Paris | John Arthur Jarvis Great Britain | Zoltán Halmay Hungary | Louis Martin France |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Walter Brack Germany | Georg Hoffmann Germany | Georg Zacharias Germany |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1912 Stockholm | Walter Bathe Germany | Thor Henning Sweden | Percy Courtman Great Britain |
1920 Antwerp | Håkan Malmrot Sweden | Thor Henning Sweden | Arvo Aaltonen Finland |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Georg Zacharias Germany | Walter Brack Germany | Jam Handy United States |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1900 Paris | Frederick Lane Australia | Otto Wahle Austria | Peter Kemp Great Britain |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1900 Paris | Charles Devendeville France | André Six France | Peder Lykkeberg Denmark |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | United States (USA) | 143 | 100 | 71 | 314 |
2 | Australia (AUS) | 33 | 37 | 38 | 108 |
3 | Germany (GER) | 18 | 22 | 26 | 66 |
4 | Japan (JPN) | 17 | 22 | 21 | 60 |
5 | Hungary (HUN) | 16 | 17 | 13 | 46 |
6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 13 | 18 | 15 | 46 |
7 | Soviet Union (URS) | 9 | 14 | 18 | 41 |
8 | Sweden (SWE) | 9 | 11 | 10 | 30 |
9 | France (FRA) | 6 | 8 | 13 | 27 |
10 | Canada (CAN) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 26 |
11 | Italy (ITA) | 6 | 1 | 7 | 14 |
12 | Unified Team (EUN) | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
13 | Russia (RUS) | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 |
14 | China (CHN) | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
15 | Netherlands (NED) | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
16 | Tunisia (TUN) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
17 | ROC (ROC) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
18 | New Zealand (NZL) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
19 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
20 | Brazil (BRA) | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 |
21 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
22 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
23 | Australasia (ANZ) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
24 | South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
25 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
26 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
27 | Suriname (SUR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
28 | Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mexico (MEX) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Singapore (SIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
32 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
33 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
34 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
37 | Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
40 | Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
41 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (44 entries) | 313 | 306 | 298 | 917 |
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