200-Meter Freestyle
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 1900 | Frederick Lane, Australia | 2:25.20 | |
| 1904 | Charles Daniels, United States | 2:44.20 | 1 |
| 1968 | Michael Wenden, Australia | 1:55.20 | |
| 1972 | Mark Spitz, United States | 1:52.78 | |
| 1976 | Bruce Furniss, United States | 1:50.29 | |
| 1980 | Sergei Kopiliakov, USSR | 4:49.81 | |
| 1984 | Michael Gross, West Germany | 1:47.44 | |
| 1988 | Duncan Armstrong, Australia | 1:47.25 | |
| 1992 | Evgueni Sadovyi, Unified Team2 | 1:46.70 | |
| 1996 | Danyon Loader, New Zealand | 1:47.63 | |
| 2000 | Pieter van den Hoogenband, Netherlands | 1:45.35 | 3 |
| 2004 | Ian Thorpe, Australia | 1:44.71 | |
| 2008 | Michael Phelps, United States | 1:42.96 | 3 |
1. 220 yards
2. Former Soviet Union team.
3. World record.
