July 23 – Thirteen days after breaking his own
world record in the men's 200m butterfly (long course) Troy once again betters the world's best time in that event, this time at a meet in
Toledo, Ohio clocking 2:13.4.
August 4 – Less than a month before the
Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, Troy again breaks the
world record in the men's 200m butterfly (long course), when he clocks 2:13.2 at a meet in
Detroit, Michigan.