Induvidual Medley (IM)

Individual medley consists of a single swimmer swimming equal distances of four different strokes within one race. Individual medley consists of four strokes. These four strokes go in an order by Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and finally Freestyle. The swimmer will swim one quarter of the race in each style, in this order.

For IM relays the order is switched up. Instead the order is back, breast, fly, free. It's like this because backstroke has to start in the water therefore it has to be the first stroke.

IM is one of the hardest events because it has every stroke. The race lengths are 100, 200, and 400. The 400 IM is honestly terrible. I do not recommend. I do not understand how people swim that race all the time, it hurts a lot....

400 Records

Michael Phelps holds the men's record with a time of 4:03.84. He also holds the previous 7 records. Katinka Hosszu also holds the women's record with a time of 4:26.36.

200 Records

Ryan Lochte currently hold the men's record with a time of 1:54.00. Micheal Phelps hold the previous 8 WRs for this event. Katinka Hosszu from Hungary holds the women's record with a time of 2:06.12.

Katinka Hosszu

She is a Hungarian competitive swimmer specialized in individual medley events. She is a three-time Olympic champion and a nine-time long-course world champion. She has competed at five Summer Olympics: 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. Hosszú currently swims for her own team, Team Iron Swim Budapest. She is one of the most versatile swimmers in the world, and was nicknamed the "Iron Lady", which she has since turned into a fast growing international brand. In 2014 she became the first race-prize dollar millionaire (man or woman) in swimming history.

Michael Phelps

He is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). When Phelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, he broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps already tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games by winning six gold and two bronze medals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.

Ryan Lochte

He is an American professional swimmer and 12-time Olympic medalist. Along with Natalie Coughlin, Dara Torres, and Jenny Thompson, he is the second-most decorated swimmer in Olympic history measured by total number of medals, behind only Michael Phelps. Lochte's seven individual Olympic medals rank second in history in men's swimming (again to Michael Phelps), tied for second among all Olympic swimmers. He currently holds the world records in the 200-meter individual medley (long and short course). As part of the American teams, he also holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle (long course) and 4×100-meter freestyle (mixed) relay.