🏊🏻 ¿Puede un humano nadar más rápido que un tiburón?

🏊🏻 Can a human swim faster than a shark?

In the water, everything changes. There are no ultralight shoes, no tartan track, no tailwind. Just you, your body… and if you're not careful, a shark.

Since swimming became an Olympic sport in 1896, records have been constantly being broken. Today we bring you a direct comparison between the fastest swimmers on the planet and some of the fastest animals in the ocean. Could a human escape a shark if they relied solely on their swimming stroke?


🌊 THE FASTEST HUMANS SWIMMING (100m freestyle)

🥇 César Cielo (2009 – Rome)

  • Time: 46.91 s
  • Average speed: 7.67 km/h
  • Country: Brazil
  • World record still standing in long course (50 m).

🥈 David Popovici (2022 – Rome)

  • Time: 46.86 s (European Record)
  • Speed: 7.68 km/h
  • Country: Romania
  • He is close to making history on a global scale.

🥉 Alain Bernard / Alain Bousquet / Kyle Chalmers

  • Times between 46.94 s and 47.08 s
  • Speeds around 7.6 km/h


🦈 COMPARISON WITH AQUATIC ANIMALS

  • Mako Shark = 75 km/h 🦈
  • Bluefin tuna = 70 km/h
  • Bottlenose dolphin = 55 km/h
  • Emperor penguin = 9 km/h
  • César Cielo (human) = 7.67 km/h
  • COBI with float = 3.5 km/h (if lucky) 🛟

Olympic swimming represents the pure strength of the human body in its most natural form , and although we are still far from surpassing the shark… what drives us is something else: the desire to surpass ourselves, again and again .

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