| Index | |||||||||
| Swimming | |||||||||
| Swimming - Women`s World Records - Long Course | |||||||||
| Click on underlined Swimmer to access photograph and career highlights | |||||||||
| 50 Metres Butterfly | 100 Metres Butterfly | 200 Metres Butterfly | |||||||
| 1960 | Heemskerk | NED | 2.34.40. | ||||||
| 1961 | Andrew | AUS | 1.08.90. | Collins | USA | 2.32.80. | |||
| Stewart | CAN | 1.08.80. | |||||||
| Doerr | USA | 1.08.20. | |||||||
| 1962 | Stewart | CAN | 1.07.30. | Finneran | USA | 2.31.20. | |||
| Finneran | USA | 2.30.70. | |||||||
| 1963 | Ellis | USA | 1.06.50. | Pitt | USA | 2.29.10. | |||
| Kok | NED | 1.06.10. | |||||||
| 1964 | Kok | NED | 1.05.10. | Stouder | USA | 2.28.10. | |||
| Stouder | USA | 1.04.70. | Stouder | USA | 2.26.40. | ||||
| 1965 | Kok | NED | 1.04.50. | Moore | USA | 2.26.30. | |||
| Kok | NED | 2.25.80. | |||||||
| Kok | NED | 2.25.30. | |||||||
| 1966 | |||||||||
| 1967 | Kok | NED | 2.22.50. | ||||||
| Kok | NED | 2.21.00. | |||||||
| 1968 | |||||||||
| 1969 | |||||||||
| 1970 | Jones | USA | 1.04.10. | Moe | USA | 2.20.70. | |||
| Jones | USA | 2.19.30. | |||||||
| 1971 | Moe | USA | 2.18.60. | ||||||
| Daniel | USA | 2.18.40. | |||||||
| 1972 | Aoki | JPN | 1.03.90. | Moe | USA | 2.16.62 | |||
| Gyarmati | HUN | 1.03.80. | Moe | USA | 2.15.57 | ||||
| Aoki | JPN | 1.03.34 | |||||||
| 1973 | Ender | DDR | 1.03.05 | Kother | DDR | 2.15.45 | |||
| Ender | DDR | 1.02.31 | Kother | DDR | 2.13.76 | ||||
| 1974 | Kother | DDR | 1.02.09 | ||||||
| Kother | DDR | 1.01.99 | |||||||
| Kother | DDR | 1.01.88 | |||||||
| 1975 | Ender | DDR | 1.01.33 | ||||||
| Ender | DDR | 1.01.24 | |||||||
| 1976 | Ender | DDR | 1.00.13 | Gabriel | DDR | 2.13.60. | |||
| Gabriel | DDR | 2.12.84 | |||||||
| Gabriel | DDR | 2.11.22 | |||||||
| 1977 | Knacke | DDR | 59.78 | ||||||
| 1978 | Pollack | DDR | 59.46 | Pollack | DDR | 2.11.20. | |||
| Pollack | DDR | 2.09.87 | |||||||
| 1979 | Meagher | USA | 2.09.77 | ||||||
| Meagher | USA | 2.08.41 | |||||||
| Meagher | USA | 2.07.01 | |||||||
| 1980 | Meagher | USA | 59.26 | Meagher | USA | 2.06.37 | |||
| 1981 | Meagher | USA | 57.93 | Meagher | USA | 2.05.96 | |||
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| 1996 | Van Dyken | USA | 26.55 | ||||||
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| 1999 | De Bruijn | NED | 26.53 | Thompson | USA | 57.88 | |||
| Kammerling | SWE | 26.39 | |||||||
| Kammerling | SWE | 26.29 | |||||||
| 2000 | De Bruijn | NED | 26.10. | De Bruijn | NED | 56.69 | O`Neill | AUS | 2.05.81 |
| De Bruijn | NED | 25.64 | De Bruijn | NED | 56.64 | ||||
| De Bruijn | NED | 56.61 | |||||||
| 2001 | |||||||||
| 2002 | Kammerling | SWE | 25.57 | Jedrzejczak | POL | 2.05.78 | |||
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| 2005 | Jedrzejczak | POL | 2.05.61 | ||||||
| 2006 | Schipper | AUS | 2.05.40. | ||||||
| 2007 | Alshammar | SWE | 25.46 | ||||||
| 2008 | Liu Zige | CHN | 2.04.18 | ||||||
| 2009 | Veldhuis | NED | 25.33 | Sjostrom | SWE | 56.44 | Descenza | USA | 2.04.14 |
| Sjostrom | SWE | 56.06 | Schipper | AUS | 2.03.41 | ||||
| Liu Zige | CHN | 2.01.81 | |||||||