Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships


The Swimming portion of the 13th FINA World Aquatics Championships was held at the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, Italy from Sunday 26 July - Sunday 2 August 2009. It featured 40 long course events.

Competition schedule

The evening session schedule for the 2009 Worlds was:
Note: prelims/semifinals/finals were swum in events 200 m and shorter; prelims/finals in events 400 m or longer. For prelims/semifinals/finals events, prelims and semis were held on the same day, with finals being the evening of the following day. For the 400 m events and the 800 m relays, prelims and finals were held the same day. For the individual 800 m and 1500 m races, prelims were in the morning of one day, with finals in the evening of the next day. Preliminary sessions began at 9:00 a.m.; finals at 6:00 p.m.

Medal table

Medal winners

Men's events

Legend:

Women's events

Legend:

Records

The following world and championship records were broken during the competition.

World records

Championship records