100-Meter Freestyle
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 1896 | Alfred Hajos, Hungary | 1:22.20 | |
| 1904 | Zoltan de Halmay, Hungary | 1:02.80 | 1 |
| 1906 | Charles Daniels, United States | 1:13.00 | |
| 1908 | Charles Daniels, United States | 1:05.60 | |
| 1912 | Duke P. Kahanamoku, United States | 1:03.40 | |
| 1920 | Duke P. Kahanamoku, United States | 1:01.40 | |
| 1924 | John Weissmuller, United States | 0:59.00 | |
| 1928 | John Weissmuller, United States | 0:58.60 | |
| 1932 | Yasuji Miyazaki, Japan | 0:58.20 | |
| 1936 | Ferenc Csik, Hungary | 0:57.60 | |
| 1948 | Walter Ris, United States | 0:57.30 | |
| 1952 | Clarke Scholes, United States | 0:57.40 | |
| 1956 | Jon Henricks, Australia | 0:55.40 | |
| 1960 | John Devitt, Australia | 0:55.20 | |
| 1964 | Don Schollander, United States | 0:53.40 | |
| 1968 | Michael Wenden, Australia | 0:52.20 | |
| 1972 | Mark Spitz, United States | 0:51.22 | |
| 1976 | Jim Montgomery, United States | 0:49.99 | |
| 1980 | Jorg Woithe, East Germany | 0:50.40 | |
| 1984 | Rowdy Gaines, United States | 0:49.80 | |
| 1988 | Matt Biondi, United States | 0:48.63 | |
| 1992 | Alexander Popov, Unified Team2 | 0:49.02 | |
| 1996 | Alexander Popov, Russia | 0:48.74 | |
| 2000 | Pieter van den Hoogenband, Netherlands | 0:48.30 | |
| 2004 | Pieter van den Hoogenband, Netherlands | 0:48.17 | |
| 2008 | Alain Bernard, France | 0:47.21 |
1. 100 yards.
2. Former Soviet Union team.
