The Swimming portion of the 13th FINA World Aquatics Championships was held at the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, Italy from Sunday 26 July – Sunday 2 August 2009. It featured 40 long course (50m) events (20 for males, 20 for females; 17 individual events and 3 relays for each gender).

Competition schedule

The evening session schedule for the 2009 Worlds was: ^[1]

Note: prelims/semifinals/finals were swum in events 200 m and shorter; prelims/finals in events 400 m or longer. For prelims/semifinals/finals events, prelims and semis were held on the same day, with finals being the evening of the following day. For the 400 m events and the 800 m relays, prelims and finals were held the same day. For the individual 800 m and 1500 m races, prelims were in the morning of one day, with finals in the evening of the next day. Preliminary sessions began at 9:00 a.m.; finals at 6:00 p.m.

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	10	6	6	22
2	Germany (GER)	4	4	1	9
3	China (CHN)	4	2	4	10
4	Australia (AUS)	3	4	9	16
5	Italy (ITA)*	3	0	1	4
6	Great Britain (GBR)	2	3	2	7
7	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	3	6
8	Brazil (BRA)	2	1	0	3
	Serbia (SRB)	2	1	0	3
10	Russia (RUS)	1	5	1	7
11	Japan (JPN)	1	2	1	4
12	Tunisia (TUN)	1	2	0	3
13	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	1	1	0	2
16	South Africa (RSA)	1	0	2	3
17	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	1	2
18	France (FRA)	0	3	3	6
19	Canada (CAN)	0	2	1	3
20	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
21	Spain (ESP)	0	0	3	3
22	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		40	40	42	122

Medal winners

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	César Cielo Filho   Brazil	21.08 CR, AM	Frédérick Bousquet   France	21.21	Amaury Leveaux   France	21.25
100 m freestyle details	César Cielo Filho   Brazil	46.91 WR	Alain Bernard   France	47.12 ER	Frédérick Bousquet   France	47.25
200 m freestyle details	Paul Biedermann   Germany	1:42.00 WR	Michael Phelps   United States	1:43.22	Danila Izotov   Russia	1:43.90 NR
400 m freestyle details	Paul Biedermann   Germany	3:40.07 WR	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	3:41.11 AF	Zhang Lin   China	3:41.35 AS
800 m freestyle details	Zhang Lin   China	7:32.12 WR	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	7:35.27 AF	Ryan Cochrane   Canada	7:41.92 AM
1500 m freestyle details	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	14:37.28 AF	Ryan Cochrane   Canada	14:41.38	Sun Yang   China	14:46.84
50 m backstroke details	Liam Tancock   Great Britain	24.04 WR	Junya Koga   Japan	24.24 AS	Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa	24.34 AF
100 m backstroke details	Junya Koga   Japan	52.26 CR, AS	Helge Meeuw   Germany	52.54	Aschwin Wildeboer   Spain	52.64
200 m backstroke details	Aaron Peirsol   United States	1:51.92 WR	Ryosuke Irie   Japan	1:52.51 AS	Ryan Lochte   United States	1:53.82
50 m breaststroke details	Cameron van der Burgh   South Africa	26.67 WR	Felipe França Silva   Brazil	26.76 AM	Mark Gangloff   United States	26.86 NR
100 m breaststroke details	Brenton Rickard   Australia	58.58 WR	Hugues Duboscq   France	58.64 ER	Cameron van der Burgh   South Africa	58.95 AF
200 m breaststroke details	Dániel Gyurta   Hungary	2:07.64 ER	Eric Shanteau   United States	2:07.65	Giedrius Titenis   Lithuania Christian Sprenger   Australia	2:07.80 NR 2:07.80
50 m butterfly details	Milorad Čavić   Serbia	22.67 CR, NR	Matt Targett   Australia	22.73 OC	Rafael Muñoz   Spain	22.88
100 m butterfly details	Michael Phelps   United States	49.82 WR	Milorad Čavić   Serbia	49.95 ER	Rafael Muñoz   Spain	50.41 NR
200 m butterfly details	Michael Phelps   United States	1:51.51 WR	Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland	1:53.23 NR	Takeshi Matsuda   Japan	1:53.32
200 m individual medley details	Ryan Lochte   United States	1:54.10 WR	László Cseh   Hungary	1:55.24	Eric Shanteau   United States	1:55.36
400 m individual medley details	Ryan Lochte   United States	4:07.01	Tyler Clary   United States	4:07.31	László Cseh   Hungary	4:07.37
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79) Garrett Weber-Gale [a] Ricky Berens [a] Cullen Jones [a]	3:09.21 CR	Russia Evgeniy Lagunov (47.90) Andrey Grechin (47.00) Danila Izotov (47.23) Alexander Sukhorukov (47.39) Nikita Konovalov [a]	3:09.52 NR	France Fabien Gilot (47.73) Alain Bernard (46.46) Grégory Mallet (48.28) Frédérick Bousquet (47.42) Amaury Leveaux [a] William Meynard [a]	3:09.89
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46) Daniel Madwed [a] Davis Tarwater [a] Peter Vanderkaay [a]	6:58.55 WR	Russia Nikita Lobintsev (1:45.10) Mikhail Polischuk (1:45.42) Danila Izotov (1:44.48) Alexander Sukhorukov (1:44.15) Yevgeny Lagunov [a] Sergei Perunin [a]	6:59.15 ER	Australia Kenrick Monk (1:46.00) Robert Hurley (1:46.47) Tommaso D'Orsogna (1:44.82) Patrick Murphy (1:44.36) Nic Ffrost [a] Kirk Palmer [a]	7:01.65 OC
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States Aaron Peirsol (52.19) CR Eric Shanteau (58.57) Michael Phelps (49.72) David Walters (46.80) Matt Grevers [a] Mark Gangloff [a] Tyler McGill [a] Nathan Adrian [a]	3:27.28 WR	Germany Helge Meeuw (52.27) ER Hendrik Feldwehr (58.51) Benjamin Starke (50.91) Paul Biedermann (46.89)	3:28.58 ER	Australia Ashley Delaney (53.10) Brenton Rickard (57.80) Andrew Lauterstein (50.58) Matt Targett (47.16) Christian Sprenger [a]	3:28.64 OC

Legend: AF  African record | AM  Americas record | AS  Asian record | CR  Championship record | ER  European record | OC  Oceania record | WR  World record | NR National record
^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Britta Steffen   Germany	23.73 WR	Therese Alshammar   Sweden	23.88 NR	Cate Campbell   Australia Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands	23.99
100 m freestyle details	Britta Steffen   Germany	52.07 WR	Francesca Halsall   Great Britain	52.87 NR	Libby Trickett   Australia	52.93
200 m freestyle details	Federica Pellegrini   Italy	1:52.98 WR	Allison Schmitt   United States	1:54.96 AM	Dana Vollmer   United States	1:55.64
400 m freestyle details	Federica Pellegrini   Italy	3:59.15 WR	Joanne Jackson   Great Britain	4:00.60 NR	Rebecca Adlington   Great Britain	4:00.79
800 m freestyle details	Lotte Friis   Denmark	8:15.92 CR, NR	Joanne Jackson   Great Britain	8:16.66	Alessia Filippi   Italy	8:17.21 NR
1500 m freestyle details	Alessia Filippi   Italy	15:44.93 CR, ER	Lotte Friis   Denmark	15:46.30 NR	Camelia Potec   Romania	15:55.63
50 m backstroke details	Zhao Jing   China	27.06 WR	Daniela Samulski   Germany	27.23 ER	Gao Chang   China	27.28
100 m backstroke details	Gemma Spofforth   Great Britain	58.12 WR	Anastasia Zueva   Russia	58.18 NR	Emily Seebohm   Australia	58.88 OC
200 m backstroke details	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:04.81 WR	Anastasia Zueva   Russia	2:04.94 ER	Elizabeth Beisel   United States	2:06.39
50 m breaststroke details	Yuliya Efimova   Russia	30.09 WR	Rebecca Soni   United States	30.11 AM	Sarah Katsoulis   Australia	30.16 OC
100 m breaststroke details	Rebecca Soni   United States	1:04.93	Yuliya Efimova   Russia	1:05.41 ER	Kasey Carlson   United States	1:05.75
200 m breaststroke details	Nadja Higl   Serbia	2:21.62 ER	Annamay Pierse   Canada	2:21.84	Mirna Jukić   Austria	2:21.97 NR
50 m butterfly details	Marieke Guehrer   Australia	25.48 OC	Zhou Yafei   China	25.57 AS	Ingvild Snildal   Norway	25.58
100 m butterfly details	Sarah Sjöström   Sweden	56.06 WR	Jessicah Schipper   Australia	56.23 OC	Jiao Liuyang   China	56.86 AS
200 m butterfly details	Jessicah Schipper   Australia	2:03.41 WR	Liu Zige   China	2:03.90 AS	Katinka Hosszú   Hungary	2:04.28
200 m individual medley details	Ariana Kukors   United States	2:06.15 WR	Stephanie Rice   Australia	2:07.03 OC	Katinka Hosszú   Hungary	2:07.46 ER
400 m individual medley details	Katinka Hosszú   Hungary	4:30.31 CR, ER	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	4:32.12	Stephanie Rice   Australia	4:32.29
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Netherlands Inge Dekker (53.61) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.30) Frederike Heemskerk (53.03) Marleen Veldhuis (52.78) Hinkelien Schreuder [b]	3:31.72 WR	Germany Britta Steffen (52.22) WR Daniela Samulski (53.49) Petra Dallmann (53.75) Daniela Schreiber (52.37)	3:31.83 NR	Australia Libby Trickett (52.62) OC Marieke Guehrer (53.60) Shayne Reese (53.25) Felicity Galvez (53.54) Sally Foster [b] Meagen Nay [b]	3:33.01 OC
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	China Yang Yu (1:55.47) Zhu Qianwei (1:55.79) Liu Jing (1:56.09) Pang Jiaying (1:54.73)	7:42.08 WR	United States Dana Vollmer (1:55.29) Lacey Nymeyer (1:57.88) Ariana Kukors (1:55.18) Allison Schmitt (1:54.21) Dagny Knutson [b] Alyssa Anderson [b]	7:42.56 AM	Great Britain Joanne Jackson (1:55.98) Jazmin Carlin (1:56.78) Caitlin McClatchey (1:56.42) Rebecca Adlington (1:56.33) Hannah Miley [b]	7:45.51 ER
4 × 100 m medley relay details	China Zhao Jing (58.98) AS Chen Huijia (1:04.12) Jiao Liuyang (56.28) Li Zhesi (52.81)	3:52.19 WR	Australia Emily Seebohm (59.40) Sarah Katsoulis (1:04.65) Jessicah Schipper (56.19) Libby Trickett (52.34) Sally Foster [b] Stephanie Rice [b] Shayne Reese [b]	3:52.58 OC	Germany Daniela Samulski (59.85) Sarah Poewe (1:06.81) Annika Mehlhorn (57.14) Britta Steffen (51.99) Daniela Schreiber [b]	3:55.79 ER

Legend: AF  African record | AM  Americas record | AS  Asian record | CR  Championship record | ER  European record | OC  Oceania record | WR  World record | NR National record
^b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Records

The following world and championship records were broken during the competition:

World records

Date	Round	Event	Established for	Time	Name	Nation
July 26	Semifinal 2	Women's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	56.44	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 26	Final	Men's 400 metre freestyle	(same)	3:40.07	Paul Biedermann	Germany
July 26	Semifinal 2	Women's 200 metre individual medley	(same)	2:07.03	Ariana Kukors	United States
July 26	Final	Women's 400 metre freestyle	(same)	3:59.15	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 26	Final	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Women's 100 metre freestyle	52.22	Britta Steffen	Germany
July 26	Final	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:31.72	Inge Dekker (53.61) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.30) Femke Heemskerk (53.03) Marleen Veldhuis (52.78)	Netherlands
July 27	Final	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	58.58	Brenton Rickard	Australia
July 27	Final	Women's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	56.06	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 27	Semifinal 2	Women's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	1:04.84	Rebecca Soni	United States
July 27	Semifinal 1	Women's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	58.48	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia
July 27	Final	Women's 200 metre individual medley	(same)	2:06.15	Ariana Kukors	United States
July 28	Final	Men's 200 metre freestyle	(same)	1:42.00	Paul Biedermann	Germany
July 28	Final	Women's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	58.12	Gemma Spofforth	United Kingdom
July 28	Semifinal 2	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	26.74	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
July 28	Semifinal 1	Women's 200 metre freestyle	(same)	1:53.67	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 29	Heat 4	Women's 200 metre butterfly	(same)	2:04.14	Mary DeScenza	United States
July 29	Semifinal 1	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.39	Daniela Samulski	Germany
July 29	Semifinal 2	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.38	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia
July 29	Final	Men's 200 metre butterfly	(same)	1:51.51	Michael Phelps	United States
July 29	Final	Women's 200 metre freestyle	(same)	1:52.98	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 29	Final	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	26.67	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
July 29	Final	Men's 800 metre freestyle	(same)	7:32.12	Zhang Lin	China
July 30	Final	Men's 200 metre individual medley	(same)	1:54.10	Ryan Lochte	United States
July 30	Semifinal 2	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:20.12	Annamay Pierse	Canada
July 30	Final	Men's 100 metre freestyle	(same)	46.91	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
July 30	Final	Women's 200 metre butterfly	(same)	2:03.41	Jessicah Schipper	Australia
July 30	Semifinal 1	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:07.31	Christian Sprenger	Australia
July 30	Final	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.06	Zhao Jing	China
July 30	Final	Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	(same)	7:42.08	Yang Yu (1:55.47) Zhu Qianwei (1:55.79) Liu Jing (1:56.09) Pang Jiaying (1:54.73)	China
July 31	Final	Women's 100 metre freestyle	(same)	52.07	Britta Steffen	Germany
July 31	Final	Men's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	1:51.92	Aaron Peirsol	United States
July 31	Semifinal 1	Women's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	25.28	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands
July 31	Semifinal 2	Women's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	25.07	Therese Alshammar	Sweden
July 31	Semifinal 2	Men's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	50.01	Milorad Čavić	Serbia
July 31	Final	Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	(same)	6:58.55	Michael Phelps (1:44.49) Ricky Berens (1:44.13) David Walters (1:45.47) Ryan Lochte (1:44.46)	United States
August 1	Final	Women's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	2:04.81	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
August 1	Final	Men's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	49.82	Michael Phelps	United States
August 1	Semifinal 1	Men's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	24.08	Liam Tancock	United Kingdom
August 1	Final	Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay	(same)	3:52.19	Zhao Jing (58.98) Chen Huijia (1:04.12) Jiao Liuyang (56.28) Li Zhesi (52.81)	China
August 2	Final	Men's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	24.04	Liam Tancock	United Kingdom
August 2	Final	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	30.09	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia
August 2	Final	Women's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	23.73	Britta Steffen	Germany
August 2	Final	Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay	(same)	3:27.28	Aaron Peirsol (52.19) Eric Shanteau (58.57) Michael Phelps (49.72) David Walters (46.80)	United States

Championship records

Date	Round	Event	Established for	Time	Name	Nation
July 26	Heat 9	Women's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	56.76	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 26	Heat 7	Women's 200 metre individual medley	(same)	2:08.53	Ariana Kukors	United States
July 26	Heat 20	Men's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	22.90	Roland Schoeman	South Africa
July 26	Heat 21	Men's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	=22.90	Rafael Muñoz	Spain
July 26	Heat 6	Women's 400 metre freestyle	(same)	4:01.96	Federica Pellegrini	Italy
July 26	Heat 14	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	58.98	Brenton Rickard	Australia
July 26	Heat 2	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:35.26	Sally Foster (54.18) Marieke Guehrer (53.47) Shayne Reese (53.19) Meagen Nay (54.42)	Australia
July 26	Heat 3	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:34.74	Britta Steffen (53.76) Daniela Samulski (53.81) Petra Dallmann (53.69) Daniela Schreiber (53.48)	Germany
July 26	Heat 4	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Women's 100 metre freestyle	53.02	Francesca Halsall	United Kingdom
July 26	Heat 3	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Men's 100 metre freestyle	47.77	Brent Hayden	Canada
July 26	Heat 3	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:12.58	Matthew Abood (48.35) Andrew Lauterstein (48.42) Tommaso D'Orsogna (47.82) Matt Targett (48.07)	Australia
July 26	Heat 4	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Men's 100 metre freestyle	47.52	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden
July 26	Heat 4	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:11.38	Amaury Leveaux (48.37) Grégory Mallet (47.78) William Meynard (48.11) Fabien Gilot (47.12)	France
July 26	Heat 5	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Men's 100 metre freestyle	47.39	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
July 26	Heat 5	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:11.26	César Cielo Filho (47.39) Nicolas Oliveira (47.51) Guilherme Roth (48.15) Fernando Silva (48.21)	Brazil
July 26	Semifinal 1	Men's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	22.68	Rafael Muñoz	Spain
July 26	Semifinal 2	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	58.96	Eric Shanteau	United States
July 26	Final	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Men's 100 metre freestyle	47.09	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
July 26	Final	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	(same)	3:09.21	Michael Phelps (47.78) Ryan Lochte (47.03) Matt Grevers (47.61) Nathan Adrian (46.79)	United States
July 27	Heat 11	Women's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	58.78	Gemma Spofforth	United Kingdom
July 27	Heat 10	Women's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	1:05.66	Rebecca Soni	United States
July 27	Heat 12	Men's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	52.93	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain
July 27	Semifinal 1	Men's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	52.39	Junya Koga	Japan
July 27	Final	Men's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	22.67	Milorad Čavić	Serbia
July 27	Semifinal 2	Men's 200 metre freestyle	(same)	1:43.65	Paul Biedermann	Germany
July 28	Heat 12	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	27.26	Barry Murphy	Ireland
July 28	Heat 15	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	27.15	Brenton Rickard	Australia
July 28	Heat 16	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	26.92	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
July 28	Final	Women's 100 metre backstroke	Women's 50 m backstroke	28.13	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia
July 28	Semifinal 1	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	=26.92	Felipe França Silva	Brazil
July 28	Final	Women's 1500 metre freestyle	(same)	15:44.93	Alessia Filippi	Italy
July 28	Final	Men's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	52.26	Junya Koga	Japan
July 29	Heat 12	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.85	Zhao Jing	China
July 29	Heat 13	Women's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	27.65	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus
July 30	Heat 6	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:21.68	Annamay Pierse	Canada
July 30	Heat 5	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:09.28	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania
July 30	Heat 6	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:09.26	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov	Kazakhstan
July 30	Heat 7	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:09.22	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil
July 30	Heat 8	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:08.85	Loris Facci	Italy
July 30	Heat 9	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:08.55	Eric Shanteau	United States
July 30	Heat 1	Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	(same)	7:49.04	Caitlin McClatchey (1:57.54) Jazmin Carlin (1:56.45) Hannah Miley (1:58.15) Rebecca Adlington (1:56.90)	United Kingdom
July 30	Semifinal 1	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	2:20.93	Rebecca Soni	United States
July 30	Semifinal 1	Men's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	1:54.06	Aaron Peirsol	United States
July 31	Heat 21	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.64	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago
July 31	Heat 22	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.37	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
July 31	Heat 10	Women's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	25.74	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
July 31	Heat 13	Women's 50 metre butterfly	(same)	25.44	Therese Alshammar	Sweden
July 31	Heat 6	Women's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	2:06.72	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
July 31	Semifinal 1	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.29	Duje Draganja	Croatia
July 31	Semifinal 2	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.21	Frédérick Bousquet	France
July 31	Semifinal 2	Women's 200 metre backstroke	(same)	2:05.86	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe
July 31	Swim-off	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.20	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago
August 1	Heat 17	Women's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	24.24	Cate Campbell	Australia
August 1	Heat 10	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	30.34	Kasey Carlson	United States
August 1	Heat 12	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	(same)	30.24	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia
August 1	Heat 13	Men's 50 metre backstroke	(same)	24.49	Guilherme Guido	Brazil
August 1	Final	Men's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	21.08	César Cielo Filho	Brazil
August 1	Semifinal 1	Women's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	24.20	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands
August 1	Semifinal 2	Women's 50 metre freestyle	(same)	24.08	Cate Campbell	Australia
August 1	Final	Women's 800 metre freestyle	(same)	8:15.92	Lotte Friis	Denmark
August 2	Heat 3	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	(same)	3:29.48	Helge Meeuw (52.46) Hendrik Feldwehr (58.22) Benjamin Starke (51.11) Paul Biedermann (47.69)	Germany
August 2	Final	Women's 400 metre individual medley	(same)	4:30.31	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary
August 2	Final	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	Men's 100 m backstroke	52.19	Aaron Peirsol	United States

See also

• 2009 in swimming
• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

References