Check out the June issue of Swimming World Magazine and read the story, "The 10 Greatest Olympic Upsets of All Time," by Phillip Whitten. And while you're online, take time to vote in our monthly poll and tell us which Olympic upset you think is the greatest of all time. Following are other great Olympic upsets (listed by year).
MORE OLYMPIC UPSETS (listed by year)
1932 Helene Madison (USA) whips Willi den Ouden (NED) in the 100 free.
1936 Dark horse Ferenc Csik of Hungary upsets the USA's Peter Fick to win the 100 freestyle.
1948 Walter Ris (USA) takes the 100 free, as pre-Games favorite and WR-holder Alex Jarny sinks to a tie for fourth.
1952 South Africa’s Joan Harrison, 15, knocks three seconds off her 100 meter back to surprise WR-holder Gjertje Willema (NED).
1956 A rapidly-fading Murray Rose (AUS) hangs on to win the 1500 over Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, as WR-holder George Breen (USA) is third.
1968 Doug Russell (USA) beats Mark Spitz (USA) in the 100 fly for the only time in his career.
1968 Michael Wenden (AUS) upsets WR-holder Don Schollander in the 200 free.
1968 Kaye Hall (USA) sets the only women’s WR at Mexico City, winning the 100 back from WR-holder Elaine Tanner of Canada.
1972 In her first freestyle loss in two years, Australia’s Shane Gould falls in the 100 free to the USA’s Sandy Neilson and Shirley Babashoff.
1976 The USA’s Brian Goodell and Bobby Hackett nip Australia’s Steve Holland, the WR-holder, in a 1500-meter thriller.
1976 John Naber whips East Germany’s Roland Matthes in the 100 meter back.
1988 Suriname’s Anthony Nesty out touches Matt Biondi by 1- hundredth of a second in the 100 fly.
1988 Daichi Suzuki surprises WR-holder Dave Berkoff in the 100 back.
1992 Newcomer Alex Popov (URS) wins the 100 free as WR-holder Matt Biondi, undefeated in seven years and leading with five meters to go, falls to fifth. Seven men swim 49s.
1992 Unknown Kyoko Iwasaki (JPN) upends WR-holder Anita Nall in the 200 breast.
1992 Comebacking Pablo Morales, who last competed at the Olympics in 1984, takes the 100 fly by 3-hundredths of a second.
1992 Summer Sanders (USA) takes the 200 fly her first individual gold medal in her fourth and final event at Barcelona.
1996 Attila Czene (HUN) comes roaring from behind to win the 200 IM and shock WR-holder Jani Sievinen, who’d won 39 straight finals.
2000 Holland’s Pieter van den Hoogenband stuns WR-holder Ian Thorpe in the 200 free at Sydney.
2004 Kirsty Coventry wins Zimbabwe’s first-ever individual Olympic gold medal when she takes the 200 meter backstroke.