Competitive swimming, strokes, events, and history.
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Which two strokes brought Mark Spitz individual gold at the 1972 Olympics?
His four individual victories covered the 100- and 200-meter races in each stroke.
Mark Spitz competed at the 1972 Munich Olympics with which distinctive facial hair?
Spitz kept his mustache even though competitive swimmers commonly shaved body hair to reduce drag.
Mark Spitz represented which country in Olympic swimming?
Spitz won his first Olympic golds with U.S. relay teams in Mexico City in 1968, four years before Munich.
Which swimmer surpassed Mark Spitz's record for gold medals at one Olympics in 2008?
Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly by just one hundredth of a second, keeping his eight-gold sweep alive.
How long is an Olympic long-course swimming pool?
World Aquatics defines an Olympic long-course pool as 50 metres long; 25-metre pools are short course.