Knowra Swimming world record Swimming world record A swimming world record is the fastest performance officially recognized by World Aquatics for a defined event, subject to rules on course, equipment, and conditions.
World Aquatics : The international governing body that regulates competitive swimming and recognizes world records. It sets the rules and ratifies performances as swimming world records.
Swimming : The human activity of moving through water using coordinated body movements. World records belong to the broader sport of competitive swimming.
Competitive swimming : The organized sport of racing through water under standardized rules. World records are the sport’s highest recognized performance benchmarks.
Olympic record : The fastest performance recorded in an event at the Olympic Games. An Olympic record is limited to Olympic competition, unlike a world record.
Swimming pool length : The measured distance between the end walls of a swimming pool, commonly 25 or 50 metres in competition. Records are separated by course length because turns and underwater distance differ.
Swimming stroke : A defined technique for propelling the body through water, such as freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, or butterfly. Each stroke has distinct events and rules, so records are stroke-specific.
Swimming at the Olympic Games : The swimming competitions held as part of the Summer Olympic Games. Olympic races produce major record-setting opportunities, though Olympic and world records differ.
Swimming national record : The fastest officially recognized performance by eligible athletes representing a country in a swimming event. National records use country-based eligibility rather than the world-record scope.
Swimming rules : The regulations governing competitive swimming events, starts, strokes, turns, and finishes. A performance must comply with event rules to qualify for recognition.
Individual medley : A swimming race in which one swimmer performs butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle in sequence. Its records cover a combined event rather than a single stroke.
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