List of Papua New Guinean records in swimming

The Papua New Guinean records in swimming are the fastest ever performances of swimmers representing Papua New Guinea. The records are recognised and ratified by the nations swimming federation: Papua New Guinea Swimming Inc. The records are for both long course (50m) and short course (25m) events.

The events include:

• freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500;
• backstroke: 50, 100 and 200;
• breaststroke: 50, 100 and 200;
• butterfly: 50, 100 and 200;
• individual medley: 100 (25m pool only), 200 and 400;

All records were set in finals unless noted otherwise.

Long Course (50 m)

Men

Event	Time		Name	Club	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
50m freestyle	23.10		Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	10 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
100m freestyle	49.72	h	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	12 August 2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China
200m freestyle	1:49.04	h	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	10 August 2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China
400m freestyle	4:31.66	h	Sheldon Plummer	Papua New Guinea	8 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[1]
800m freestyle	9:35.42	†	Sheldon Plummer	Papua New Guinea	11 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[2]
1500m freestyle	18:02.31		Sheldon Plummer	Papua New Guinea	11 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[3]
50m backstroke	25.55		Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	13 April 2016	Australian Championships	Adelaide, Australia	[4]
100m backstroke	54.99		Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	8 April 2016	Australian Championships	Adelaide, Australia
200m backstroke	2:31.85	h	Nathan Nadesalingam	Papua New Guinea	11 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[5]
50m breaststroke	29.53	h	Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea	1 August 2022	Commonwealth Games	Birmingham, United Kingdom	[6]
100m breaststroke	1:03.31	h	Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea	30 July 2022	Commonwealth Games	Birmingham, United Kingdom	[7]
200m breaststroke	2:15.33	h	Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea	27 July 2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	[8]
50m butterfly	23.67	h, =	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	7 April 2016	Australian Championships	Adelaide, Australia	[9]
50m butterfly	23.67	=	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	7 April 2016	Australian Championships	Adelaide, Australia	[10]
100m butterfly	51.62	sf	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	15 August 2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China
200m butterfly	2:14.82	h	Benjamin Wells	Papua New Guinea	30 July 2002	Commonwealth Games	Manchester, United Kingdom
200m individual medley	2:11.98		Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea	12 July 2019	Pacific Games	Apia, Samoa	[11]
400m individual medley	5:20.72		Bobby Akunaii	Papua New Guinea	7 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[12]
4×100m freestyle relay	3:28.02		Samuel Seghers  (51.51) Leo Biggs  (54.05) Stanford Kawale  (53.09) Ryan Pini  (49.37)	Papua New Guinea	6 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[13]
4×200m freestyle relay	8:06.45		Samuel Seghers  (1:56.67) Stanford Kawale Shannon Liew Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	7 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[14]
4×100m medley relay	3:49.53		Ryan Pini  (56.65) Ryan Maskelyne  (1:04.83) Samuel Seghers  (55.17) Stanford Kawale  (52.88)	Papua New Guinea	11 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[15]

Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by Papua New Guinea Swimming;WR – World record;OC – Oceanian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat;sf – semifinal;r – relay 1st leg;rh – relay heat 1st leg;b – B final;† – en route to final mark;tt – time trial

Women

Event	Time		Name	Club	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
50m freestyle	26.47	h	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	15 August 2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China
100m freestyle	57.97	h	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	30 July 2009	World Championships	Rome, Italy
200m freestyle	2:07.37	h	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	28 July 2009	World Championships	Rome, Italy
400m freestyle	4:58.08	h	Ebony Tkatchenko	Papua New Guinea	21 July 2017	Commonwealth Youth Games	Nassau, The Bahamas	[16]
800m freestyle	10:51.86		Millie Knight	Papua New Guinea	9 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[17]
1500 m freestyle
50m backstroke	31.03	sf	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	7 October 2010	Commonwealth Games	Delhi, India
100m backstroke	1:09.01		Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	1 September 2011	Pacific Games	Noumea, New Caledonia
200m backstroke	2:31.90		Savannah Tkatchenko	Papua New Guinea	11 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[18]
50m breaststroke	34.60		Savannah Tkatchenko	Papua New Guinea	8 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
100m breaststroke	1:16.03	h	Barbara Vali-Skelton	Papua New Guinea	29 July 2013	World Championships	Barcelona, Spain
200m breaststroke	2:44.95		Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	7 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[19]
50m butterfly	29.67		Georgia-Leigh Vele	Papua New Guinea	9 July 2019	Pacific Games	Apia, Samoa	[20]
100m butterfly	1:07.48		Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	10 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
200m butterfly	2:45.73	h	Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	11 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[21]
200m individual medley	2:29.44		Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	31 August 2007	(South) Pacific Games	Apia, Samoa
400m individual medley	6:01.94		Britney Murray	Papua New Guinea	6 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[22]
4×100m freestyle relay	4:11.52		Savannah Tkatchenko Ebony Tkatchenko Barbara Vali-Skelton Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	6 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
4×200m freestyle relay	9:12.16		Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane  (2:15.57) Ebony Tkatchenko  (2:19.80) Barbara Vali-Skelton  (2:21.54) Savannah Tkatchenko  (2:15.25)	Papua New Guinea	10 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[23]
4×100m medley relay	4:38.31		Shanice Paraka Savannah Tkatchenko Tegan McCarthy Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	11 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by Papua New Guinea Swimming;WR – World record;OC – Oceanian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat;sf – semifinal;r – relay 1st leg;rh – relay heat 1st leg;b – B final;† – en route to final mark;tt – time trial

Mixed relay

Event	Time		Name	Club	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
4×50m freestyle relay	1:40.02		Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane  (27.48) Samuel Seghers  (22.62) Savannah Tkatchenko  (27.70) Ryan Pini  (22.22)	Papua New Guinea	9 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[24]
4×100m freestyle relay	3:53.46	h	Samuel Seghers  (52.84) Georgia-Leigh Vele  (1:02.29) Judith Meauri  (1:03.66) Ryan Maskelyne  (54.67)	Papua New Guinea	27 July 2019	World Championships	Gwangju, South Korea	[25]
4×50m medley relay	1:52.04		Ryan Pini  (25.95) Barbara Vali-Skelton Samuel Seghers Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	8 July 2015	Pacific Games	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	[26]
4×100m medley relay	4:13.90	h	Ryan Pini Tegan McCarthy Samuel Seghers Barbara Vali-Skelton	Papua New Guinea	5 August 2015	World Championships	Kazan, Russia

Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by Papua New Guinea Swimming Inc.;WR – World record;OC – Oceanian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat

Short Course (25 m)

Men

Event	Time		Name	Club	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
50m freestyle	22.16	h	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	4 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[27]
100m freestyle	48.24	h	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	6 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[28]
200m freestyle	1:52.08	h	Samuel Seghers	Papua New Guinea	7 December 2016	World Championships	Windsor, Canada	[29]
400m freestyle	4:30.83	h	Sheldon Plummer	Papua New Guinea	5 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[30]
800 m freestyle
1500 m freestyle
50m backstroke	24.08	rh	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	4 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[31]
100m backstroke	51.93	h	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	3 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[32]
200m backstroke	1:59.37	h	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	7 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[33]
50m breaststroke	29.14	h	Thomas Chen	Papua New Guinea	14 December 2024	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	[34]
100m breaststroke	1:02.19	h	Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea	22 September 2017	Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	[35]
200m breaststroke	2:17.57	h	Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea	8 December 2016	World Championships	Windsor, Canada	[36]
50m butterfly	23.31	h	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	5 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[37]
100m butterfly	52.18		Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	9 November 2011	World Cup	Beijing, China
200 m butterfly
100m individual medley	59.51	h	Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea	25 September 2017	Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	[38]
200m individual medley	2:15.28	h	Leonard Kalate	Papua New Guinea	22 September 2017	Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	[39]
400m individual medley
4×50m freestyle relay	1:34.77	h	Livingston Aika  (24.87) Ashley Seeto  (24.40) Stanford Kawale  (23.18) Ryan Pini  (22.32)	Papua New Guinea	9 December 2016	World Championships	Windsor, Canada	[40]
4×100m freestyle relay	3:26.76	h	Samuel Seghers  (50.84) Stanford Kawale  (52.78) Livingston Aika  (54.08) Ryan Pini  (49.06)	Papua New Guinea	6 December 2016	World Championships	Windsor, Canada	[41]
4×200 m freestyle relay
4×50m medley relay	1:43.99	h	Ryan Pini  (24.56) Ashley Seeto  (29.03) Stanford Kawale  (26.28) Samuel Seghers  (24.12)	Papua New Guinea	10 December 2016	World Championships	Windsor, Canada	[42]
4×100m medley relay	3:51.10	h	Livingston Aika  (1:02.53) Ryan Maskelyne  (1:03.50) Ryan Pini  (52.79) Stanford Kawale  (52.28)	Papua New Guinea	11 December 2016	World Championships	Windsor, Canada	[43]

Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by Papua New Guinea Swimming;WR – World record;OC – Oceanian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat;sf – semifinal;r – relay 1st leg;rh – relay heat 1st leg;b – B final;† – en route to final mark;tt – time trial

Women

Event	Time		Name	Club	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
50m freestyle	26.76	h	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	6 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[44]
100m freestyle	58.79	h	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	4 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[45]
200m freestyle	2:13.04	h	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	7 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[46]
400 m freestyle
800 m freestyle
1500 m freestyle
50m backstroke	30.98	h	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	6 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[47]
100m backstroke	1:07.98	h	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	3 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[48]
200 m backstroke
50m breaststroke	33.79	h	B. Vali-Skelton	Papua New Guinea	12 December 2012	World Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[49]
100m breaststroke	1:13.73	h	B. Vali-Skelton	Papua New Guinea	14 December 2012	World Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[50]
200m breaststroke	2:40.78	h	Savannah Tkatchenko	Papua New Guinea	7 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[51]
50m butterfly	30.25	h	Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	13 December 2012	World Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[52]
100m butterfly	1:09.60	h	Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	6 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[53]
200 m butterfly
100m individual medley	1:08.61	h	Savannah Tkatchenko	Papua New Guinea	4 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[54]
200m individual medley	2:30.07	h	Savannah Tkatchenko	Papua New Guinea	6 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[55]
400 m individual medley
4×50 m freestyle relay
4×100m freestyle relay	4:08.36	h	Savannah Tkatchenko  (1:01.90) Shanice Paraka  (1:03.50) Tegan McCarthy  (1:04.60) Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane  (58.36)	Papua New Guinea	5 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[56]
4×200 m freestyle relay
4×50m medley relay	2:03.88	h	Shanice Paraka  (31.38) Savannah Tkatchenko  (34.85) Tegan McCarthy  (30.85) Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane  (26.80)	Papua New Guinea	5 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[57]
4×100 m medley relay

Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by Papua New Guinea Swimming;WR – World record;OC – Oceanian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat;sf – semifinal;r – relay 1st leg;rh – relay heat 1st leg;b – B final;† – en route to final mark;tt – time trial

Mixed relay

Event	Time		Name	Club	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
4×50m freestyle relay	1:40.38	h	Stanford Kawale  (23.86) Shanice Paraka  (28.47) Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane  (26.70) Ryan Pini  (21.35)	Papua New Guinea	6 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[58]
4×50m medley relay	1:50.71	h	Ryan Pini  (24.08) Savannah Tkatchenko  (34.30) Stanford Kawale  (25.67) Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane  (26.66)	Papua New Guinea	4 December 2014	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[59]

Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by Papua New Guinea Swimming;
Records not set in finals: h – heat

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