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| Swimming | |||||||||
| Swimming - Men`s World Records - Long Course | |||||||||
| Click on underlined Swimmer to access photograph and career highlights | |||||||||
| 400 Metres Freestyle | 800 Metres Freestyle | 1500 Metres Freestyle | |||||||
| 1960 | Konrads | AUS | 4.15.90. | Konrads | AUS | 17.11.00. | |||
| 1961 | |||||||||
| 1962 | Rose | AUS | 4.13.40. | ||||||
| 1963 | Saari | USA | 17.05.50. | ||||||
| 1964 | Schollander | USA | 4.12.70. | Rose | AUS | 17.01.80. | |||
| Schollander | USA | 4.12.20. | Saari | USA | 16.58.70. | ||||
| 1965 | Krause | USA | 16.58.60. | ||||||
| 1966 | Nelson | USA | 4.11.80. | Burton | USA | 16.41.60. | |||
| Schollander | USA | 4.11.60. | |||||||
| Wiegand | DDR | 4.11.10. | |||||||
| 1967 | Spitz | USA | 4.10.60. | Burton | USA | 16.34.10. | |||
| Mosconi | FRA | 4.09.20. | |||||||
| Spitz | USA | 4.08.80. | |||||||
| Charlton | USA | 4.08.20. | |||||||
| 1968 | Spitz | USA | 4.07.70. | Echevarria | MEX | 16.28.10. | |||
| Hutton | CAN | 4.06.50. | Burton | USA | 16.08.50. | ||||
| 1969 | Fassnacht | FDR | 4.04.00. | Burton | USA | 16.04.50. | |||
| 1970 | Kinsella | USA | 4.02.80. | Kinsella | USA | 15.57.10. | |||
| Larsson | SWE | 4.02.60. | |||||||
| 1971 | McBreen | USA | 4.02.10. | ||||||
| 1972 | Cooper | AUS | 4.01.70. | Demont | USA | 15.52.91 | |||
| Krumpholz | USA | 4.00.11 | Burton | USA | 15.52.58 | ||||
| 1973 | Demont | USA | 3.58.18 | Holland | AUS | 15.37.80. | |||
| 15.31.85 | |||||||||
| 1974 | Shaw | USA | 3.56.69 | Shaw | USA | 15.31.75 | |||
| Shaw | USA | 3.54.69 | |||||||
| 1975 | Shaw | USA | 3.53.95 | Holland | AUS | 15.27.79 | |||
| Shaw | USA | 3.53.31 | Shaw | USA | 15.20.91 | ||||
| 1976 | Goodell | USA | 3.53.08 | Holland | AUS | 15.10.89 | |||
| Goodell | USA | 3.51.93 | Goodell | USA | 15.06.66 | ||||
| Goodell | USA | 15.02.40. | |||||||
| 1977 | |||||||||
| 1978 | Goodell | USA | 3.51.56 | ||||||
| 1979 | Salnikov | URS | 3.51.41 | Salnikov | URS | 7.56.49 | |||
| Salnikov | URS | 3.51.40. | |||||||
| 1980 | Salnikov | URS | 3.51.20. | Salnikov | URS | 14.58.27 | |||
| Szmidt | CAN | 3.50.49 | |||||||
| 1981 | |||||||||
| 1982 | Salnikov | URS | 3.49.57 | Salnikov | URS | 7.52.83 | Salnikov | URS | 14.56.35 |
| 1983 | Salnikov | URS | 3.48.32 | Salnikov | URS | 7.52.33 | Salnikov | URS | 14.54.76 |
| 1984 | |||||||||
| 1985 | Gross | FDR | 3.47.80. | ||||||
| 1986 | Salnikov | URS | 7.50.64 | ||||||
| 1987 | |||||||||
| 1988 | Wojdat | POL | 3.47.38 | ||||||
| Dassler | DDR | 3.46.95 | |||||||
| 1989 | |||||||||
| 1990 | |||||||||
| 1991 | Perkins | AUS | 7.47.85 | Hoffmann | GER | 14.50.36 | |||
| 1992 | Perkins | AUS | 3.46.47 | Perkins | AUS | 7.46.60. | Perkins | AUS | 14.48.40. |
| Sadovyi | CIS | 3.45.00. | Perkins | AUS | 14.43.48 | ||||
| 1993 | |||||||||
| 1994 | Perkins | AUS | 3.43.80. | Perkins | AUS | 7.46.00. | Perkins | AUS | 14.41.66 |
| 1995 | |||||||||
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| 1998 | |||||||||
| 1999 | Thorpe | AUS | 3.41.83 | ||||||
| 2000 | Thorpe | AUS | 3.41.33 | ||||||
| Thorpe | AUS | 3.40.59 | |||||||
| 2001 | Thorpe | AUS | 3.40.17 | Thorpe | AUS | 7.39.16 | Hackett | AUS | 14.34.56 |
| 2002 | Thorpe | AUS | 3.40.08 | ||||||
| 2003 | |||||||||
| 2004 | |||||||||
| 2005 | Hackett | AUS | 7.38.65 | ||||||
| 2006 | |||||||||
| 2007 | |||||||||
| 2008 | |||||||||
| 2009 | Biedermann | GER | 3.40.07 | Zhang | CHN | 7.32.12 | |||
| 2010 | |||||||||
| 2011 | Sun Yang | CHN | 14.34.14 | ||||||