| Index | ||||||
| Swimming | ||||||
| Swimming - Women`s World Records - Long Course | ||||||
| Click on underlined Swimmer to access photograph and career highlights | ||||||
| 200 Metres Individual Medley | 400 Metres Individual Medley | |||||
| 1960 | De Varona | USA | 5.36.50. | |||
| 1961 | De Varona | USA | 2.40.10. | De Varona | USA | 5.34.50. |
| De Varona | USA | 2.37.10. | ||||
| De Varona | USA | 2.35.00. | ||||
| 1962 | De Varona | USA | 2.33.30. | De Varona | USA | 5.29.70. |
| Finneran | USA | 5.27.40. | ||||
| De Varona | USA | 5.24.70. | ||||
| Finneran | USA | 5.21.90. | ||||
| 1963 | De Varona | USA | 2.31.80. | |||
| 1964 | De Varona | USA | 2.30.10. | De Varona | USA | 5.16.50. |
| De Varona | USA | 2.29.90. | De Varona | USA | 5.14.90. | |
| 1965 | ||||||
| 1966 | Vidali | USA | 2.29.00. | |||
| Kolb | USA | 2.27.80. | ||||
| 1967 | Kolb | USA | 2.27.50. | Kolb | USA | 5.11.70. |
| Kolb | USA | 2.26.10. | Kolb | USA | 5.09.70. | |
| Kolb | USA | 2.25.00. | Kolb | USA | 5.08.20. | |
| Kolb | USA | 2.23.50. | ||||
| 1968 | Kolb | USA | 5.04.70. | |||
| 1969 | ||||||
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| 1971 | ||||||
| 1972 | Gould | AUS | 2.23.07 | Neall | AUS | 5.02.97 |
| 1973 | Ender | DDR | 2.23.01. | Franke | DDR | 5.01.10. |
| Hubner | DDR | 2.20.51 | Wegner | DDR | 4.57.51 | |
| 1974 | Tauber | DDR | 2.18.97 | Tauber | DDR | 4.52.42 |
| 1975 | Tauber | DDR | 2.18.83 | Tauber | DDR | 4.52.20. |
| 1976 | Tauber | DDR | 2.18.30. | Treiber | DDR | 4.48.79 |
| Ender | DDR | 2.17.14 | Tauber | DDR | 4.42.77 | |
| 1977 | Tauber | DDR | 2.16.96 | |||
| Tauber | DDR | 2.15.95 | ||||
| Tauber | DDR | 2.15.85 | ||||
| 1978 | Caulkins | USA | 2.15.09 | Caulkins | USA | 4.40.83 |
| Caulkins | USA | 2.14.07 | ||||
| 1979 | ||||||
| 1980 | Caulkins | USA | 2.13.69 | Schneider | DDR | 4.39.96 |
| 2.13.00. | Schneider | DDR | 4.38.44 | |||
| Schneider | DDR | 4.36.29 | ||||
| 1981 | Geweniger | DDR | 2.11.73 | |||
| 1982 | Schneider | DDR | 4.36.10. | |||
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| 1992 | Li Lin | CHN | 2.11.65 | |||
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| 1997 | Yanyan Wu | CHN | 2.09.72 | Yan Chen | CHN | 4.34.79 |
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| 2000 | Klochkova | UKR | 4.33.59 | |||
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| 2007 | Hoff | USA | 4.32.89 | |||
| 2008 | Rice | AUS | 2.08.92 | Rice | AUS | 4.31.46 |
| Rice | AUS | 2.08.45 | Hoff | USA | 4.31.12 | |
| Rice | AUS | 4.29.45 | ||||
| 2009 | Kukors | USA | 2.07.03 | |||
| Kukors | USA | 2.06.15 | ||||