QUIZ TIME Olympic Swimming Quiz Answers
1. At which Olympics was a swimming pool first used instead of the open sea, was it 1904, 1908, or 1912? 1908
2. What was unusual about the events in which Mark Spitz won his 7 gold medals at the 1972 Olympic games? All his races were won in record times
3. Which Briton won gold in the 100m breaststroke at the Moscow Olympics in 1980? Duncan Goodhew
4. Which Briton won the gold medal in the 200m breaststroke with a new world record at the Montreal Olympics in 1976? David Wilkie
5. Johnny Weissmuller won a total of 5 gold medals for the USA during the 1920s but what was he best known for outside of swimming? For his role as Tarzan
6. Which Briton at the age of 18 won an Olympic silver medal in the 400m individual medley behind the East German Petra Schneider? Sharon Davis
7. At which Olympics were swimming goggles first permitted? 1976
8. Which Briton who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s won gold in the 100m breaststroke at the 1988 Seoul Olympics with a winning margin of 1/100th of a second? Adrian Moorhouse
9. By the time he retired at Rio 2016, Michael Phelps had collected an impressive haul of medals but how many of these were Olympic gold medals? 23
10. Which Briton won team GB’s first gold medal of the 2016 Olympics with a World Record of 57:13 seconds in the 100m breaststroke? Adam Peaty
11. Which Olympic games were the most successful for Olympic champion Ian Thorpe? Sydney 2000
12. Who was the first woman to win 6 gold medals at a single Olympics, doing so at the 1988 Seoul games? Kristin Otto (German)
13. Who is the Russian swimmer who won 4 individual Olympic gold medals and is widely considered to be the greatest sprint swimmer in history? Alexander Popov
14. What is the shortest race in Olympic swimming? 50m Freestyle
15. What are the orders of strokes in the individual medley? Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.