Michael's Mighty 33 World Marks
Craig Lord
Jul 10, 2009

2009 Best Performers (Long Course - Female)

100 METRES BUTTERFLY

#CountryTimeNameIPSMeet
1SWE56.06Sjostrom, Sarah1011WORLDJUL
2CHN56.07Liu, Zige1011CHGMSOCT
3AUS56.23Schipper, Jessicah1007WORLDJUL
4NED56.69Veldhuis, Marleen995AMSTDAPR
5CHN56.86Jiao, Liuyang991WORLDJUL

The list in full: Michael Phelps has set 33 (I missed one earlier) world records to date, as listed below. The record of records was held by Mark Spitz, with 26 solo and 7 relays global marks. Phelps is now one beyond Spitz on 27 solo efforts.

200m free:
  • 1:43.86 Melbourne March 27 2007
  • 1:42.96 Beijing 2008 August 12, 2008 (LZR)

100m butterfly

  • 51.47 Barcelona July 25, 2003
  • 50.22 Indianapolis July 9, 2009 (LZR)
200m butterfly
  • 1:54.92 Austin March 30, 2001
  • 1:54.58 Fukuoka July 24, 2001
  • 1:53.93 Barcelona July 22, 2003
  • 1:53.80 Victoria August 17, 2006
  • 1:53.71 Columbia, Miss., February 17 2007
  • 1:52.09 Melbourne March 28 2007
  • 1:52.03 Beijing  August 13, 2008 (LZR)
200m medley
  • 1:57.94 Santa Clara June 29 2003
  • 1:57.52 Barcelona July 24 2003
  • 1:56.04 Barcelona July 25 2003
  • 1:55.94 College Park August 9 2003
  • 1:55.84 Victoria August 20 2006
  • 1:54.98 Melbourne March 29 2007
  • 1:54.80 Omaha July 4 2008 (LZR)
  • 1:54.23 Beijing August 15 2008 (LZR)

400m medley

  • 4:11.09 Fort Lauderdale August 15 2002
  • 4:10.73 Indianapolis April 6 2003
  • 4:09.09 Barcelona July 27 2003
  • 4:08.41 Long Beach July 7 2004
  • 4:08.26 Athens August 13 2004
  • 4:06.22 Melbourne April 1 2007
  • 4:05.25 Omaha June 29 2008 (LZR)
  • 4:03.84 Beijing August 10 2008 (LZR)

4x100m free

  • 3:12.46 (Walker, Jones, Lezak) Victoria August 19 2006
  • 3:08.24 (Weber-Gale, Jones, Lezak) Beijing August 11 2008 (LZR)

4x200m free

  • 7:03.24 (Lochte, keller, Vanderkaay) Melbourne March 30 2007
  • 6:58.56 (Lochte, Berens, Vanderkaay) Beijing August 13 2008 (LZR)

4x100m medley

  • 3:33.48 (Peirsol, Hansen, Lezak) Yokohama August 29 2002
  • 3:29.34 (Peirsol, Hansen, Lezak) Beijing August 17 2008 (LZR)

Spitz has one more relay medal than Phelps, having raced in three record-breaking 4x200m free quartets. Spitz set 10 freestyle marks from 100m to 400m and 16 butterfly marks, 9 of them over 200m.