Swimming by the numbers

(BEIJING, 6 August) -- A preview of the swimming competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games based on historic facts and figures.

11,000 -- Spectator capacity at the National Aquatics Center also known as the 'Water Cube'.

1989 -- Year Janet Evans (USA) set the Women's 800m Freestyle world record, the longest standing world record in Swimming.

1984 -- Year Beijing competitor Dara Torres (USA) won her first Olympic Gold medal, in Los Angeles, USA.

1968 -- Most successful Olympic result by a single nation: United States won 52 medals - 21 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze.

458 -- Total Olympic medals won by the United States, the most by any nation.

209 -- Height in centimeters of Rolandas Gimbutis (LTU), the tallest swimmer at the Beijing Games.

202 -- Total Olympic Gold medals won by the United States, the most by any nation.

138 -- Height in centimeters of Julianne Kirchner (MHL), the shortest swimmer at the Beijing Games.

56.61 -- Winning time by Inge DE BRUIJN (NED) in the Women's 100m Butterfly at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the only Olympic record that still stands as a world record in any individual event.

41 -- Age of Dara Torres, the oldest swimmer at the Beijing Games.

21 -- Total Olympic medals won by China in Swimming.

15 -- Number of Olympic Games in which the United States have been the leading medal-winning nation.

12 -- Olympic career medals won by Jenny Thompson (USA), the most by any swimmer.

9 -- Medals won by Brazil, the most by any country/region without ever winning an Olympic Gold medal.

8 -- Medals won by Michael Phelps (USA) in Athens 2004, which equaled the record from 1980 of Artistic Gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin (URS) for most medals won by any athlete at a single Olympics.

7 -- Gold medals won by Mark Spitz (USA) in Munich 1972, the most by any swimmer at a single Olympic Games.

6 -- Gold medals won by Kirstin Otto (GDR), the most by any non-American swimmer.

4 -- Most Olympic Games with at least one medal won; Dara Torres, Jenny Thompson and Franziska Van Almsick (GER).

3 -- Most individual Gold medals won in a single event at successive Olympic Games in Men's and Women's competition, a record jointly held by Dawn Fraser (AUS) and Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN).

2 -- Australia (1956) and East Germany (1980, 1988) are the only countries/regions beside the United States that have been the leading medal-winning nation in Swimming since World War II.