| Year |
Name |
Time |
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| 1900 |
Freddie Lane, AUS |
2:25.2 |
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| 1904 |
Charles Daniels, USA |
2:44.2y |
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| 1906-64 |
Not held |
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| 1968 |
Mike Wenden, AUS |
1:55.2 |
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| 1972 |
Mark Spitz, USA |
1:52.78 |
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| 1976 |
Bruce Furniss, USA |
1:50.29 |
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| 1980 |
Sergey Kopliakov, URS |
1:49.81 |
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| 1984 |
Michael Gross, FRG |
1:47.44 |
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| 1988 |
Duncan Armstrong, AUS |
1:47.25 |
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| 1992 |
Yevgeniy Sadovyi, EUN |
1:46.70 |
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| 1996 |
Danyon Loader, NZL |
1:47.63 |
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| 2000 |
Pieter van den Hoogenband, NED |
1:45.35 |
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| 2004 |
Ian Thorpe, AUS |
1:44.71 |
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