Paul Biedermann set a record time of 01:42.0 for the 200 metres freestyle swimming race at the World Championships in Rome, Italy.

Paul Biedermann set a record time in the 400 metres freestyle swimming race at the World Championships in Rome, Italy.

Michael Phelps sets world record in the 400 metres individual medley swimming event at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in China.

Hungarian Olympic champion Krisztina Egerszegi set a swimming world record for the 200m backstroke at 2:06.62.

Norbert Rozsa a breaststroker from Hungary, who competed at three consecutive Olympics, set world record in a 100-meter breaststroke preliminary at the European Swimming Championship.

U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz won his seventh gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics , he swam the fly leg of the 400-meter medley relay.