Swimming World Records - Women’s Long Course

4x100m Freestyle Relay -- Australia -- 3:30.05 Shayna Jack, Bronte Campbell, Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell

4x100m Medley Relay -- United States -- 3:51.55 Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Kelsi Worrell, Simone Manuel

4x200m Freestyle Relay -- China -- 7:42.08 Yang Yu, Zhu Qianwei, Liu Jing, Pang Jiaying

50m Backstroke -- Liu Xiang -- China, 26.98

50m Breaststroke -- Lilly King -- US, 29.40

50m Butterfly -- Sarah Sjostrom -- Sweden, 24.43

50m Freestyle -- Sarah Sjostrom -- Sweden, 23.67

100m Individual Medley -- Katinka Hosszu -- Hungary, 2:06.12

100m Backstroke -- Kathleen Baker -- US, 58.00

100m Breaststroke -- Lilly King -- US, 1:04.13

100m Butterfly -- Sarah Sjostrom -- Sweden, 55.48

100m Freestyle -- Sarah Sjostrom -- Sweden, 51.71

200m Backstroke -- Missy Franklin -- US, 2:04.06

200m Breaststroke -- Rikke Moller Pederson -- Denmark, 2:19.11

200m Butterfly -- Liu Zige -- China, 2:01.81

200m Individual Medley -- Katinka Hosszu -- Hungary, 2:06.12

400m Freestyle -- Katie Ledecky -- US, 3:56.46

400m Individual Medley -- Katinka Hosszu -- Hungary, 4:26.36

800m Freestyle -- Katie Ledecky -- US, 8:04.79

1500m Freestyle -- Katie Ledecky -- US, 15:20.48

The majority of these were wrong. The right ones had formatting inconsistencies, or the wrong time.  Only a couple were completely right so I just redid the list. I kept them in the same order they are currently in, hopefully it isn't too hard to edit.

Many records have fallen in the past couple of years, some of these have been rebroken quickly. The suit era times are finally being surpassed. After the banning of certain suits (extremely aerodynamic, masterpieces of engineering, nearly impossible to put on), we went many years with very little action in terms of new swimming world records. Now that the athletes have caught up to those now-illegal suits, we are seeing a lot of records being broken in rapid succession. I will try to keep up :).

As you can see, Sarah Sjostrom, Katie Ledecky, and Katinka "Iron Lady" Hosszu have been particulary active. I think the Ledecky records may stand for quite some time when she is done breaking them herself, much like those of Janet Evans did.  I'm watching that 58.00 in the 100 backstroke, there are a couple women I'm sure will want to be first sub-58 in that event.

Would love for Ledecky to break 8 minutes in the 800, but I'm not sure she will be able to.

All done thanks. These topics can get out of date really quickly so good to have them updated.

Thanks JMK! Took me a while to finallly get to adding these. 

These ones were missed (too many Sjostrom and Ledecky):

50m Butterfly -- Sarah Sjostrom -- Sweden, 24.43

100m Butterfly -- Sarah Sjostrom -- Sweden, 55.48

400m Freestyle -- Katie Ledecky -- US, 3:56.46

This one I messed up:

100m 200m Individual Medley -- Katinka Hosszu -- Hungary, 2:06.12

This one I forgot:

200m Freestyle -- Federica Pellegrina -- Italy, 1:52.98

Sorry for the crazy formatting and errors.  Thanks again!

I must have been rushing... 100m Individual would be impossible in long course.

Fixed the medley and added the freestyle. The other 3 are causing me grief. They won't add so I have to figure out why not before I can add them.

Managed to shoehorn them into the subject.

Thanks JMK :) You da best.