| Index | |||||||||
| Swimming | |||||||||
| Swimming - Men`s World Records - Long Course | |||||||||
| Click on underlined Swimmer to access photograph and career highlights | |||||||||
| 50 Metres Breaststroke | 100 Metres Breaststroke | 200 Metres Breaststroke | |||||||
| 1960 | |||||||||
| 1961 | Kolesnikov | URS | 1.11.40. | Jastremski | USA | 2.33.60. | |||
| Jastremski | USA | 1.11.10. | Jastremski | USA | 2.29.60. | ||||
| Tittes | DDR | 1.10.80. | |||||||
| Jastremski | USA | 1.10.70. | |||||||
| Jastremski | USA | 1.10.00. | |||||||
| Jastremski | USA | 1.09.50. | |||||||
| Jastremski | USA | 1.07.80. | |||||||
| Jastremski | USA | 1.07.50. | |||||||
| 1962 | |||||||||
| 1963 | |||||||||
| 1964 | Prokopenko | URS | 1.07.40. | Jastremski | USA | 2.28.20. | |||
| Prokopenko | URS | 1.06.90. | O`Brien | AUS | 2.27.80. | ||||
| 1965 | |||||||||
| 1966 | |||||||||
| 1967 | Kosinski | URS | 1.06.07 | ||||||
| 1968 | Fiolo | BRA | 1.06.40. | Kosinski | URS | 2.27.40. | |||
| Pankin | URS | 1.06.20. | |||||||
| 1969 | Pankin | URS | 1.05.80. | Pankin | URS | 2.26.50. | |||
| Pankin | URS | 2.25.40. | |||||||
| 1970 | Job | USA | 2.23.50. | ||||||
| 1971 | |||||||||
| 1972 | Hencken | USA | 1.05.68 | Hencken | USA | 2.22.79 | |||
| Taguchi | JPN | 1.05.13 | Hencken | USA | 2.21.55 | ||||
| Taguchi | JPN | 1.04.94 | |||||||
| 1973 | Hencken | USA | 1.04.35 | Hencken | USA | 2.20.52 | |||
| Hencken | USA | 1.04.02 | Wilkie | GBR | 2.19.28 | ||||
| 1974 | Hencken | USA | 1.03.88 | Hencken | USA | 2.18.93 | |||
| Hencken | USA | 2.18.21 | |||||||
| 1975 | |||||||||
| 1976 | Hencken | USA | 1.03.62 | Wilkie | GBR | 2.15.11 | |||
| Hencken | USA | 1.03.11 | |||||||
| 1977 | Morken | FDR | 1.02.86 | ||||||
| 1978 | |||||||||
| 1979 | |||||||||
| 1980 | |||||||||
| 1981 | |||||||||
| 1982 | Lundquist | USA | 1.02.62 | Davis | CAN | 2.14.77 | |||
| Lundquist | USA | 1.02.53 | |||||||
| 1983 | Lundquist | USA | 1.02.34 | ||||||
| Lundquist | USA | 1.02.28 | |||||||
| 1984 | Moffet | USA | 1.02.13 | Davis | CAN | 2.14.58 | |||
| Lundquist | USA | 1.01.65 | Davis | CAN | 3.13.34 | ||||
| 1985 | |||||||||
| 1986 | |||||||||
| 1987 | |||||||||
| 1988 | |||||||||
| 1989 | Volkov | URS | 28.05 | Moorhouse | GBR | 1.01.49 | Barrowman | USA | 2.12.90. |
| Barrowman | USA | 2.12.89 | |||||||
| 1990 | Barrowman | USA | 2.11.53 | ||||||
| 1991 | Rozsa | HUN | 1.01.45 | Barrowman | USA | 2.11.23 | |||
| Rozsa | HUN | 1.01.29 | Barrowman | USA | 2.10.60. | ||||
| 1992 | Barrowman | USA | 2.10.16 | ||||||
| 1993 | Guttler | HUN | 1.00.95 | ||||||
| 1994 | |||||||||
| 1995 | Warnecke | GER | 27.82 | ||||||
| 1996 | Dzhaburiya | UKR | 27.61 | Deburghraeve | BEL | 1.00.60. | |||
| 1997 | |||||||||
| 1998 | |||||||||
| 1999 | |||||||||
| 2000 | Sloudnov | RUS | 1.00.36 | ||||||
| 2001 | Robinson | USA | 27.49 | Moses | USA | 1.00.29 | |||
| Moses | USA | 27.39 | Sloudnov | RUS | 1.00.26 | ||||
| Sloudnov | RUS | 59.97 | |||||||
| Sloudnov | RUS | 59.94 | |||||||
| 2002 | Lisogor | UKR | 27.18 | Kitajima | JPN | 2.09.97 | |||
| 2003 | Kitajima | JPN | 59.78 | Kitajima | JPN | 2.09.42 | |||
| 2004 | Hansen | USA | 59.30. | Hansen | USA | 2.09.04 | |||
| 2005 | |||||||||
| 2006 | Hansen | USA | 59.13 | Hansen | USA | 2.08.74 | |||
| Hansen | USA | 2.08.50. | |||||||
| 2007 | |||||||||
| 2008 | Kitajima | JPN | 58.91 | Kitajima | JPN | 2.07.51 | |||
| 2009 | Van Der Burgh | RSA | 27.06 | Rickard | AUS | 58.58 | Sprenger | AUS | 2.07.31 |
| Silva | BRA | 26.89 | |||||||
| Van Der Burgh | RSA | 26.74 | |||||||
| Van Der Burgh | RSA | 26.67 | |||||||