50m stile libero 1900-2012
uomini

dal 1896 al 1900 non disputato

1900
1 Zoltan Halmaji USA 28"2
2 J. Scott Leary USA 28"2
3 Charles Daniels USA -
4 David Gaul USA -
5 Leo "Budd" Goodwin USA -
6 Raymond Thome USA "“

dal 1904 al 1984 non disputato

1988
1 Matthew Biondi USA 22"14
2 Thomas Jager USA 22"36
3 Gennady Prigoda URS 22"71
4 Dano Halsall SUI 22"83
5 Stefan Volery SUI 22"84
6 Vladimir Tkaschenko URS 22"88
7 Frank Henter RFG 23"03
8 Andrew Baidon AUS 23"15

1992
1 Aleksandr Popov SUN/RUS 21"91
2 Matthew Biondi USA 22"09
3 Thomas Jager USA 22"30
4 Peter Williams RSA 22"50
4 Christophe Kalfayan FRA 22"50
6 Mark Foster GBR 22"52
7 Gennady Prigoda RUS 22"54
8 Nils Rudolph GER 22"73

1996
1 Aleksandr Popov RUS 22"13
2 Gary Hall USA 22"26
3 Fernando Scherer BRA 22"29
4 Chengji Jiang CHN 22"33
5 Brendon Dedekind RSA 22"59
6 David Fox USA 22"68
7 Francisco Sanchez VEN 22"72
8 Ricardo Busquets PUR 22"73
14 René Gusperti ITA 22"96

2000
1 Anthony Ervin USA 21"98
1 Gary Hall Jr. USA 21"98
3 Pieter van den Hoogenband NED 22"03
4 Lorenzo Vismara ITA 22"11
5 Bartosz Kizierowski POL 22"22
6 Alexander Popov RUS 22"24
7 Mark Foster GBR 22"41
8 Oleksandr Volynets UKR 22"51

2004
1 Gary Hall USA 21"93
2 Duje Draganja CRO 21"94
3 Roland Mark Schoeman RSA 22"02
4 Stefan Nystrand SWE 22"08
5 Jason Lezak USA 22"11
6 Brett Hawke AUS 22"18
7 Oleksandr Volynets UKR 22"26
8 Salim Iles ALG 22"37

2008
1 Cesar Cielo Filho BRA 21"30
2 Amaury Leveaux FRA 21"45
3 Alain Bernard FRA 21"49
4 Ashley Callus AUS 21"62
5 Ben Wildman-Tobriner USA 21"64
6 Eamon Sullivan AUS 21"65
7 Roland Schoeman RSA 21"67
8 Stefan Nystrand SWE 21"72
Batt. Alessandro Calvi ITA 22"50

2012
1 Florent Manadou FRA 21.34
2 Cullen Jones USA 21.54
3 Cesar Cielo BRA 21.59
4 Bruno Fratus BRA 21.61
5 Anthony Ervin USA 21.78
6 Roland Schoeman RSA 21.80
7 George Bovell TRI 21.82
8 Eamon Sullivan AUS 21.98
13 Luca Dotto ITA
19 Marco Orsi ITA 

Legenda
Batt.: eliminato in batteria