Editing Janet Evans (section)

===1988 Olympics===
At the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] in Seoul, South Korea, she won three individual gold medals in the 400 and 800-meter freestyle and the 400-meter Individual Medley. At the games, she earned the nickname "Miss Perpetual Motion" due to her unique swimming style.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.times-olympics.co.uk/communities/swimming/swimminghistory.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20001210174400/http://www.times-olympics.co.uk/communities/swimming/swimminghistory.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2000-12-10 |title=News UK |publisher=Times-olympics.co.uk |access-date=2017-04-25}}</ref> In these Olympics, Evans set a new world record in the 400-meter freestyle event. This record stood for 18 years until France's [[Laure Manaudou]] broke it in May 2006.<ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/51014|title=Olympedia bio, Janet Evans|website=olympedia.org|access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref>

Evans held the 1,500-meter freestyle record, set in March 1988, through June 2007, when it was broken by American [[Kate Ziegler]] with her time of 15:42.54.<ref name=Olympedia/>

Evans held the world record in the 800-meter freestyle, 8:16:22, that she set in August 1989, until it was broken by [[Rebecca Adlington]] of Britain in August 2008.  Adlington set the new record with her time of 8:14.10 in winning the race at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]].  Evans's 800-meter record was one of the longest-standing ones ever in swimming, and it went unbroken through four Olympic Games (1992–2004). Only the 100-meter freestyle swimming record set by the Dutch swimmer [[Willy den Ouden]] stood longer—from 1936 through 1956, during a period when international competition was interrupted by world war.<ref name=Olympedia/>

Following her 1988 Olympics performance, Evans continued to dominate the world's long-distance swimming competitions, remaining undefeated in all of the 400-, 800-, and 1500-meter freestyle events for over five years.<ref name=ishof/>