- Krisztina Egerszegi
Krisztina Egerszegi (born August 16, 1974) is a Hungarian former swimmer, one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era. - Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Anne Coughlin (b. August 23, 1982 in Vallejo, California) is a United States swimmer and a member of the Olympic swimming team for the United States. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won two gold medals, two silver medals, and a bronze. - Aaron Peirsol
Aaron Wells Peirsol (born July 23, 1983 in Irvine, California) is an American competitive swimmer. He is best known for winning both available gold medals for men in the backstroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. After winning gold in the 100 m backstroke, he followed up by winning the 200 m event, but an initial disqualification alleged that he had made an illegal turn during the race. Having been improperly entered, the disqualification was overturned, … - Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM (born 13 October 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales), also known as the "Thorpedo" or "Thorpey", is a former Australian freestyle swimmer. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and in 2001 he became the first person to win six gold medals in one World Championship. In total, Thorpe has won eleven World Championship golds, the second-highest number of any swimmer. - Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg is an American backstroke swimmer. - John Naber
John Phillips Naber (born January 20, 1956 in Evanston, Illinois) is a swimmer from the United States. He won four gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, each in world-record time. He won the James E. Sullivan Award, given to America's top amateur athlete, in 1977. - Jeff Rouse
Jeffrey ("Jeff") Norman Rouse (born February 6, 1970 in Fredericksburg, Virginia) is a former international swimmer from the United States, who won the gold medal in the 100 metre backstroke at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. The Stanford University student was also a member of the winning American relay team from on the 4x100 meter medley relay. Four years earlier, when Barcelona hosted The Games, he was second in the 100 metres backstroke, … - David Ortega
David Ortega Pitarch (born July 20, 1979 in Castellón de la Plana, Castellón) is a freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Spain, who competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Prior to that event he won the 100m Backstroke at the European LC Championships 2000 in Helsinki, Finland. - Ryan Lochte
Ryan Lochte (born August 3, 1984 in Canandaigua, NY) is an American world record swimmer who won medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Lochte specializes in the backstroke and individual medley, but is also a freestyle relay swimmer. He currently (March 2007) holds the world record in the 200 m Backstroke. He is noted for the speed and distance he attains while kicking underwater. - Bengt Baron
Bengt Baron (born March 6, 1962) was a backstroke swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m Backstroke at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and was a member of the bronze winning team from Sweden in the 4x100m Freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. An undergraduate student from the University of California, Baron was named into its Hall of Fame in 1999. In the years 1979-1985 he won a total number of 33 Swedish titles. - Sophie Edington
Sophie Edington is an Australian backstroke swimmer. She trains at the Kingscliff ASC club under Greg Salter. At the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montréal she won two gold medals, with the backstroke leg in 4x100 m medley relay and as a heat swimmer in the 4x100 m freestyle. She won three gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne: 50 m and 100 m backstroke, and the 4x100 m medley relay in world record time of 3:56.30 s with teammates Leisel Jones, … - Roland Matthes
Roland Matthes is a former backstroke swimmer, who won a total number of eight Olympic medals for East Germany. He is considered to be one of the best backstroke swimmers of all time. He competed in three consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1968, when the "Rolls Royce of Swimming" won his first Olympic medals. Matthes was undefeated in international competitions from 1967 to 1974. During his career he set 21 world records, … - Daichi Suzuki
Daichi Suzuki (born March 10, 1967) is a former backstroke swimmer from Japan, who surprised by winning the 100m backstroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. A budding high school swimmer in his native country, Suzuki, a national champion backstroker looking to further his career at the international level, noticed an entrepreneur named Jesse Vassallo was performing, and realized he could implement the same technique in his race. - Rick Carey
Richard "Rick" John Carey (born March 13, 1963 in Mount Kisco, New York) was an American backstroke swimmer of the 1980s who won three gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He broke nine world records, five individually, and also was a double world champion. He was named as the World Swimmer of the Year in 1983 by "Swimming World magazine". Carey was selected to make his international debut at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, … - Adolph Kiefer
Adolph Gustav Kiefer(born June 27, 1918 in Chicago) was an American swimmer and the first man in the world to swim 100 yards backstroke under 1 minute. His backstroke records stood for 15 years. Kiefer became the first man to break the one-minute mark in the 100-yard backstroke while competing as a sixteen-year old in the Illinois High School Championships of 1935. - Harry Hebner
Harry Joseph Hebner (born June 15, 1891 - died October 12, 1968) was an American backstroke and freestyle swimmer as well as a water polo player, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he was the Olympic champion in 100 metre backstroke. As part of the American relay team, he won a bronze medal in 1908. In 1912 he won the silver medal with the American relay team. - Allen Stack
Allen McIntyre Stack (January 23, 1928 in New Haven, Connecticut - September 12, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii) was a U.S. backstroke swimmer, who won the 100m Backstroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. From 1948 to 1951, during and after his college days, Stack broke six world records in the backstroke and 22 American ones. Stack was educated at Deerfield Academy before graduating from Yale University in 1949, … - Yoshinobu Oyakawa
Yoshinobu ("Yoshi") Oyakawa (born August 9, 1933 on the Kona side of the Big Island of Hawaii) was a backstroke swimmer from the United States, who won the 100m Backstroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. He is considered to be the last of the great "straight-arm-pull" backstrokers. The youngest of three children, Oyakawa was raised in Papaikou, Hawaii. He attended Kalaianaole Elementary and Intermediate School. - Eleanor Holm
Eleanor G. Holm was an American swimmer. An Olympic champion, she is best known for having been suspended from the 1936 Olympic team. Born the daughter of a fireman in Brooklyn, New York, Holm learned swimming while very young. Winning her first national swimming title at age 13, she was selected to compete in the 1928 Summer Olympics, where she finished fifth in her specialty, the 100-meter backstroke. She was talented in several other strokes as well, … - Matt Welsh
Matthew "Matt" Welsh (born November 18, 1976 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian swimmer who is the world champion in the backstroke and butterfly. Matt currently trains under coach Ian Pope at the Melbourne Vicentre Club. He took two golds in 50 metres butterfly and 50 metres backstroke, during one hour, at the World Championships in Shanghai 2006. - David Berkoff
David Charles Berkoff (born November 30, 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former backstroke swimmer from the United States, who won a total number of four Olympic medals during his career. Berkoff revolutionized backstroke swimming, with his underwater start-and-turn, … - David Theile
David Egmont Theile (born January 17 1938 in Maryborough, Queensland), was an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won consecutive gold medals in the 100 m backstroke at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics, the only Australian to do so. Theile was born in Maryborough to Alice and Egmont Theile, who ran a husband and wife medical practice. Both had graduated from the University of Sydney, with his father originally being of German descent. - Brad Bridgewater
Brad Michael Bridgewater (born March 29, 1973) is an American swimmer, who won the gold medal in men's 200 meter backstroke at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Bridgewater attended Lake Mary High School in Central Florida, and was coached by 1972 Olympic gold medalist Fred Tyler. In college, he swam for the University of Texas Longhorns from 1992 to 1994, then transferred to USC. - Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou (born October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne) is an Olympic, World and European French champion swimmer. - Martin López-Zubero
Martín López-Zubero Purcell is a former backstroke swimmer with Spanish-American citizenship, who was born in the United States but competed for Spain. He's most famous for winning the gold medal in the 200 m Backstroke in front of his home crowd at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Swimming became the sport of his family, and at the age of eleven, … - Stefaan Maene
Stefaan Maene (born May 13, 1972 in Oostende) is a former backstroke and medley swimmer from Belgium, who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won his first international medal at the inaugural 1993 FINA Short Course World Championships in Palma de Mallorca: bronze in the 200m Backstroke. Two years later, at the European LC Championships 1995 in Vienna, Austria, Maene gained bronze in the 100m Backstroke. - Mike West
Mike West (born August 31, 1964 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a former backstroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay, and the bronze medal in the 100m Backstroke. - Arno Bieberstein
Arno Bieberstein (born October 17, 1884 in Magdeburg - died July 7, 1918 in Magdeburg) was a German backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in the 100 metre backstroke event and did not compete in any other competition. In 1906 and 1907 he became German champion in backstroke as member of his homebased "SC Hellas Magdeburg". - Thomas Rupprath
Thomas Rupprath (born March 16, 1977 in Neuss) is an olympic swimmer from Germany, who's nicknamed "The New Albatross". A specialist in the backstroke and butterfly, especially in short course, he the current world record holder for the 50m backstroke - both on the short (25m) and long course (50m), with a time of 24.80. - Sarah Price
Sarah Price (born April 19, 1979 in North London) is a former backstroke swimmer from the United Kingdom. She began her swimming career at the Potters Bar club, and turned professional aged fifteen. She set her first British record in 1997 in the 50 m backstroke. She also swam for Barnet Copthall Swimming Club, before ending her career at Loughborough University. In 2001, Price set a world record in the 200 m backstroke. - Randall Bal
Randall Bal (born November 14, 1980 in Fair Oaks, California) is a backstroke swimmer from the United States, who represented his native country at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, where he won the gold medal in the 50 m backstroke. He has swum under coach Mike Hastings at California Capital Aquatics since he was four years old. Bal, nicknamed "Turbo", attended the Stanford University, where he studied psychology. - Sybil Bauer
Sybil Bauer (September 18, 1903-January 31, 1927) was an American swimmer. Bauer attended Schurz High School in Chicago, Illinois and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. From 1921 to 1926, she set twenty-three world records in women's swimming, mostly in the backstroke. During a 1922 meet in Bermuda, she also broke the men's record for the 440 yard backstroke, finishing with a time of 6:24.8 (about four seconds ahead of the old mark). - Sándor Wladár
Sándor Wladár is a Hungarian retired male swimmer. He won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in 200 m backstroke. He was a swimmer of KSI (1972-1980), Újpesti Dózsa (1981-1985). From 1985 to 1987 he was a water polo player for Újpesti Dózsa. He was named the Male European Swimmer of the Year in 1981 by "Swimming World magazine". - Judy-Joy Davies
Judy-Joy Davies (born 5 June 1928) was an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s, who won a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. At national level, she won 17 Australian Championships in freestyle, backstroke and medley swimming. She was well-known after her swimming career as a swimming journalist for the Melbourne newspapers the "Argus" and "Sun-Pictorial". - Chris Renaud
Chris Renaud (born August 29, 1976 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a former backstroke swimmer from Canada, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996. His highlights include setting a world record in the short course 50m Backstroke in 1997, and several Canadian titles. He is an alumnus of Bishop Carroll High School. Renaud was the first Canadian to break the two minute barrier in the 200m Backstroke, … - László Cseh
László Cseh, a Hungarian medley and backstroke swimmer, is a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program. He is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall and weighs 82 kg (180 lb). Cseh was born in Budapest and competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He finished third in the Men's 400m Individual Medley at the time of 4:12.15, behind Michael Phelps and Erik Vendt of the USA. On December 8, 2005, in the course Trieste's Winter European Championship, … - Markus Rogan
Markus Antonius Rogan (born May 4,1982 in Vienna) is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Rogan's first big international success was a second place finish in the 200m Backstroke at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. In the Olympics in 2004, Rogan placed second in both Men's 100 m Backstroke and the Men's 200 m Backstroke, both times behind Aaron Peirsol of the United States. - Giaan Rooney
Giaan Leigh Rooney OAM (born November 15, 1982) is an Australian swimmer who won a gold medal in world record time with her teammates Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas, and Jodie Henry at the Athens Olympics in the Women's 4 x 100 metre Medley Relay. Rooney swam a personal best and new Australian record time of 1:01.18 to help Australia to the Gold - the maiden victory by Australia in this event in Olympic history. - Aschwin Wildeboer
Aschwin Wildeboer is a backstroke swimmer of Dutch origin. His parents, both born and raised in Holland, moved to Spain in 1978, and settled in Sabadell, where his father Paulus Wildeboer became the head coach of the local swimming club, called "Club Natación Sabadell". There he and his older brother Olaf, a freestyle swimmer, were raised. They both represented Spain at the 2004 Summer Olympics, … - Tomomi Morita
Tomomi Morita (born August 22, 1984) is a backstroke swimmer from Japan, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he won two bronze medals, in the 100 m backstroke and as a member of the 4x100 m medley relay team.
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