This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in swimming.
OR | indicates swimmer broke the Olympic Record |
WR | indicates swimmer broke the World Record (and Olympic Record) |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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2020 Tokyo | Robert Finke United States | 7:41.87 | Gregorio Paltrinieri Italy | 7:42.11 | Mykhailo Romanchuk Ukraine | 7:42.33 set OR in heats |
2024 Paris |
Note: since 1992, swimmers who swam only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
Note: since 1992, swimmers who swam only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
Note: Since 1992, relay swimmers who swam in the preliminary rounds, but not the event final, have also received medals when their team finished among the top three in the final.
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Zoltán Halmay Hungary | Scott Leary United States | Charles Daniels United States |
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1896 Athens | Ioannis Malokinis Greece | Spyridon Chazapis Greece | Dimitrios Drivas Greece |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Zoltán Halmay Hungary | Charles Daniels United States | Scott Leary United States |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Charles Daniels United States | Francis Gailey Australia | Emil Rausch Germany |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Charles Daniels United States | Francis Gailey Australia | Otto Wahle Austria |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1896 Athens | Paul Neumann Austria | Antonios Pepanos Greece | Efstathios Chorafas Greece |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Emil Rausch Germany | Francis Gailey Australia | Géza Kiss Hungary |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1900 Paris | John Arthur Jarvis Great Britain | Otto Wahle Austria | Zoltán Halmay Hungary |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1896 Athens | Alfréd Hajós Hungary | Ioannis Andreou Greece | none awarded [1] |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Emil Rausch Germany | Géza Kiss Hungary | Francis Gailey Australia |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1900 Paris | John Arthur Jarvis Great Britain | Zoltán Halmay Hungary | Louis Martin France |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Walter Brack Germany | Georg Hoffmann Germany | Georg Zacharias Germany |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1912 Stockholm | Walter Bathe Germany | Thor Henning Sweden | Percy Courtman Great Britain |
1920 Antwerp | Håkan Malmrot Sweden | Thor Henning Sweden | Arvo Aaltonen Finland |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1904 St. Louis | Georg Zacharias Germany | Walter Brack Germany | Jam Handy United States |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1900 Paris | Frederick Lane Australia | Otto Wahle Austria | Peter Kemp Great Britain |
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1900 Paris | Charles Devendeville France | André Six France | Peder Lykkeberg Denmark |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | United States (USA) | 143 | 100 | 71 | 314 |
2 | Australia (AUS) | 33 | 37 | 38 | 108 |
3 | Germany (GER) | 18 | 22 | 26 | 66 |
4 | Japan (JPN) | 17 | 22 | 21 | 60 |
5 | Hungary (HUN) | 16 | 17 | 13 | 46 |
6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 10 | 14 | 14 | 38 |
7 | Soviet Union (URS) | 9 | 14 | 18 | 41 |
8 | Sweden (SWE) | 9 | 11 | 10 | 30 |
9 | Tunisia (TUN) | 8 | 6 | 10 | 24 |
10 | Canada (CAN) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 26 |
11 | Unified Team (EUN) | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
12 | Russia (RUS) | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 |
13 | China (CHN) | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
14 | Netherlands (NED) | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
15 | Italy (ITA) | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 |
16 | France (FRA) | 3 | 8 | 13 | 24 |
17 | New Zealand (NZL) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
18 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
19 | Brazil (BRA) | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 |
20 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
21 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
22 | Australasia (ANZ) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
23 | South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
24 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
25 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
26 | Suriname (SUR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
27 | Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mexico (MEX) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Singapore (SIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
31 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
32 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
33 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
36 | Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
39 | Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
40 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (43 entries) | 308 | 306 | 304 | 918 |
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