| WOMEN'S WORLD RECORDS (LONG COURSE) | ||||
| 50m Freestyle | Inge de Bruijn |  NED |
24.13 | 9/22/00* Sydney, AUS |
| 100m Freestyle | Inge de Bruijn | NED |
53.77 | 9/20/00* Sydney, AUS |
| 200m Freestyle | Franziska van Almsick |  GER |
1:56.78 | 9/6/94 Rome, ITA |
| 400m Freestyle | Janet Evans |  USA |
4:03.85 | 9/22/88 Seoul, KOR |
| 800m Freestyle | Janet Evans | USA |
8:16.22 | 8/20/89 Tokyo, JPN |
| 50m Backstroke | Sandra Voelker | GER |
28.25 | 6/17/00 Berlin, GER |
| 100m Backstroke | Cihong He |  CHN |
1:00.16 | 9/10/94^ Rome, ITA |
| 200m Backstroke | Krisztina Egerszegi |  HUN |
2:06.62 | 8/25/91 Athens, GRE |
| 50m Breaststroke | Penny Heyns |  RSA |
30.83 | 8/28/99 Sydney, AUS |
| 100m Breaststroke | Penny Heyns | RSA |
1:06.52 | 8/23/99# Sydney, AUS |
| 200m Breaststroke | Qi Hui | CHN |
2:22.99 | 4/13/01 Hangzhou, CHN |
| 50m Butterfly | Inge de Bruijn | NED |
25.64 | 5/27/00 Sheffield, GBR |
| 100m Butterfly | Inge de Bruijn | NED |
56.61 | 9/17/00 Sydney, AUS |
| 200m Butterfly | Susan O'Neill |  AUS |
2:05.81 | 5/17/00 Sydney, AUS |
| 200m Indv. Medley | Yanyan Wu | CHN |
2:09.72 | 10/17/97 Shanghai, CHN |
| 400m Indv. Medley | Yana Klochkova |  UKR |
4:33.59 | 9/16/00 Sydney, AUS |
| 4x100m Free Relay | USA Olympic
Team (Amy Van Dyken, Dara Torres, Courtney Shealy, Jenny Thompson) |
USA |
3:36.61 | 9/16/00 Sydney, AUS |
| 4x100m Medley Relay | USA Olympic
Team (BJ Bedford, Megan Quann, Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres) |
USA |
3:58.30 | 9/23/00 Sydney, AUS |