200 metre freestyle at the Olympic Games
Swimming pictogram
Overview
Sport	Swimming
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1900, 1904, 1968–2016 Women: 1968–2016
Reigning champion
Men	Sun Yang (CHN)
Women	Katie Ledecky (USA)

The 200 metre freestyle event is an event held at the Summer Olympic Games. The men's event was introduced in 1900, held a second time in 1904 (at 220 yards rather than 200 metres), then was not held again until 1968. When the event returned in 1968, both men's and women's events were held. The event has remained on the programme for every Summer Olympics since.

Medals

Men's medals

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1896 Athens	Not held
1900 Paris details	Frederick Lane  Australia	Zoltán Halmay  Hungary	Karl Ruberl  Austria
1904 St. Louis details (220 yd)	Charles Daniels  United States	Francis Gailey  Australia	Emil Rausch  Germany
1908 London	Not held
1912 Stockholm	Not held
1920 Antwerp	Not held
1924 Paris	Not held
1928 Amsterdam	Not held
1932 Los Angeles	Not held
1936 Berlin	Not held
1948 London	Not held
1952 Helsinki	Not held
1956 Melbourne	Not held
1960 Rome	Not held
1964 Tokyo	Not held
1968 Mexico City details	Mike Wenden  Australia	Don Schollander  United States	John Nelson  United States
1972 Munich details	Mark Spitz  United States	Steve Genter  United States	Werner Lampe  West Germany
1976 Montreal details	Bruce Furniss  United States	John Naber  United States	Jim Montgomery  United States
1980 Moscow details	Sergey Koplyakov  Soviet Union	Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union	Graeme Brewer  Australia
1984 Los Angeles details	Michael Gross  West Germany	Mike Heath  United States	Thomas Fahrner  West Germany
1988 Seoul details	Duncan Armstrong  Australia	Anders Holmertz  Sweden	Matt Biondi  United States
1992 Barcelona details	Yevgeny Sadovyi  Unified Team	Anders Holmertz  Sweden	Antti Kasvio  Finland
1996 Atlanta details	Danyon Loader  New Zealand	Gustavo Borges  Brazil	Daniel Kowalski  Australia
2000 Sydney details	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	Ian Thorpe  Australia	Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy
2004 Athens details	Ian Thorpe  Australia	Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands	Michael Phelps  United States
2008 Beijing details	Michael Phelps  United States	Park Tae-Hwan  South Korea	Peter Vanderkaay  United States
2012 London details	Yannick Agnel  France	Sun Yang  China Park Tae-Hwan  South Korea	None awarded
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Sun Yang  China	Chad le Clos  South Africa	Conor Dwyer  United States
2020 Tokyo details	Thomas Dean  Great Britain	Duncan Scott  Great Britain	Fernando Scheffer  Brazil

Men's multiple medalists

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	2000–2004	1	1	0	2
	Ian Thorpe	Australia	2000–2004	1	1	0	2
	Sun Yang	China	2012–2016	1	1	0	2
4	Michael Phelps	United States	2004–2008	1	0	1	2
5	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	1988–1992	0	2	0	2
	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	2008–2012	0	2	0	2

Men's medalists by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	4	6	14
2	Australia	4	2	2	8
3	China	1	1	0	2
	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
	Soviet Union	1	1	0	2
	Great Britain	1	1	0	2
7	West Germany	1	0	2	3
8	France	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Unified Team	1	0	0	1
11	South Korea	0	2	0	2
	Sweden	0	2	0	2
13	Brazil	0	1	1	2
14	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	South Africa	0	1	0	1
16	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1

Women's medals

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1968 Mexico City details	Debbie Meyer  United States	Jan Henne  United States	Jane Barkman  United States
1972 Munich details	Shane Gould  Australia	Shirley Babashoff  United States	Keena Rothhammer  United States
1976 Montreal details	Kornelia Ender  East Germany	Shirley Babashoff  United States	Enith Brigitha  Netherlands
1980 Moscow details	Barbara Krause  East Germany	Ines Diers  East Germany	Carmela Schmidt  East Germany
1984 Los Angeles details	Mary Wayte  United States	Cynthia Woodhead  United States	Annemarie Verstappen  Netherlands
1988 Seoul details	Heike Friedrich  East Germany	Silvia Poll  Costa Rica	Manuela Stellmach  East Germany
1992 Barcelona details	Nicole Haislett  United States	Franziska van Almsick  Germany	Kerstin Kielgaß  Germany
1996 Atlanta details	Claudia Poll  Costa Rica	Franziska van Almsick  Germany	Dagmar Hase  Germany
2000 Sydney details	Susie O'Neill  Australia	Martina Moravcová  Slovakia	Claudia Poll  Costa Rica
2004 Athens details	Camelia Potec  Romania	Federica Pellegrini  Italy	Solenne Figuès  France
2008 Beijing details	Federica Pellegrini  Italy	Sara Isakovič  Slovenia	Pang Jiaying  China
2012 London details	Allison Schmitt  United States	Camille Muffat  France	Bronte Barratt  Australia
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Katie Ledecky  United States	Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	Emma McKeon  Australia
2020 Tokyo details	Ariarne Titmus  Australia	Siobhán Haughey  Hong Kong	Penny Oleksiak  Canada

Women's multiple medalists

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	2004–2008	1	1	0	2
2	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	1996–2000	1	0	1	2
3	Shirley Babashoff	United States	1972–1976	0	2	0	2
	Franziska van Almsick	Germany	1992–1996	0	2	0	2

Women's medalists by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	5	4	2	11
2	East Germany	3	1	2	6
3	Australia	3	0	2	5
4	Costa Rica	1	1	1	3
5	Italy	1	1	0	2
6	Romania	1	0	0	1
7	Germany	0	2	2	4
8	France	0	1	1	2
9	Hong Kong	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
13	Netherlands	0	0	2	2
14	Canada	0	0	1	1
	China	0	0	1	1