The breaststroke, which first appeared at the Olympics in 1908, is contested over distances of 100m and 200m. The most powerful and physically demanding stroke, the butterfly, involves simultaneous ...

French sensation Leon Marchand got closer to making Olympics history ... to medal in the butterfly and breaststroke events at one Games - and he took the first step. The 200m breaststroke final ...

Michael Phelps held the men's world record in the 200m butterfly for eighteen straight years before it was broken by Kristóf Milák of Hungary in 2019. While the 23-time gold medalist was ...