Olympics swimming results: Updated 2021 medal winners for every event at Tokyo Games

July 30, 2021

The greatest swimmers in the world have converged on the Tokyo Aquatics Center and they’re ready to compete for the most prestigious international athletics hardware.

Past medalists Katie Ledecky, Penny Oleksiak, Caeleb Dressel and Brent Hayden will be among the hundreds of swimming stars pursuing bronze, silver and, of course, gold medals.

The international field this year is particularly stout, with teams like Australia, Great Britain and Russia loaded with talent and swimming titans like Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu, Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri, Japan’s Daiya Seto and Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom representing some of the toughest competition.

Who will be taking home the most gold medals? Which country will finish with the most hardware? Sporting News is tracking the medal winners in each event and listing the countries that have totaled the most medals in swimming. Totals are ranked by most gold medals.

Olympic swimming results 2021

Men’s events

* Olympic record

** Olympic and world record

Women’s events

* Olympic record

** Olympic and world record

Mixed event

Overall swimming medal leaders

OLYMPICS MEDAL COUNT: Overall | Team USA

How to watch Olympic swimming events

NBC and CBC have the exclusive rights to all Olympic content in the U.S. and Canada, respectively, and as such, each will carry all the swimming events during the 2021 Tokyo Games.

Fans hoping to stream the events can find them on NBC platforms NBCSports.com, NBCOlympics.com or Peacock, as well as on fuboTV, which offers a 7-day free trial.

TV schedule

With the exception of July 31, each day will begin with heats starting at 6 a.m. ET and will end with finals races starting up at 9:30 p.m. ET each day. The USA Network will carry the heats in the United States and NBC will have the finals, while CBC will provide coverage of both events in Canada.

Those in the United States hoping to see replays of the qualifying heats can tune into NBC every afternoon to see how swimmers performed earlier in the morning.

Saturday, July 24

Sunday, July 25

Monday, July 26

Tuesday, July 27

Wednesday, July 28

Thursday, July 29

Friday, July 30

Saturday, July 31

Olympic swimming schedule

Swimming fans are going to have days filled with their favorite sport.

From July 24 through July 30, every day will have heats early in the morning, and semifinals and finals in the evening. On July 31, there will only be five finals races held in the evening to wrap up swimming at the Olympics. Each day, the morning events will begin at 6 a.m. ET, while the evening events begin at 9:30 p.m. ET.