- 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. - Grant Hackett
Grant George Hackett is an Australian swimmer who won the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This has lead him to be regarded as one of the greatest ever distance swimmers in history. He also collected a gold medal in Sydney for swimming in the heats of the 4×200 m freestyle relay. He is well regarded for his versatility, being the world record holder in the 1500 m and 800 m freestyle, … - Mark Spitz
Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950, in Modesto, California) is an American swimmer. He holds the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games (seven), which he set at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Between 1965 and 1972, Spitz won 9 Olympic gold medals, 1 silver, and 1 bronze; 5 Pan American golds; 31 National U.S. Amateur Athletic Union titles; and 8 U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships. - Dawn Fraser
Dawn Lorraine Fraser AO, MBE, (born September 4 1937) is an Australian champion swimmer. She was born in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, into a working class family. She was spotted at an early age of 12 by Sydney coach Harry Gallagher swimming at the local sea baths. Known for her politically incorrect behaviour or larrikin character as much as her athletic ability, Fraser won eight Olympic medals, including five golds, and six Commonwealth Games gold medals. - Libby Lenton
Lisbeth "Libby" Constance Lenton OAM is a member of the Australian Women's Olympic swim team, an Athens gold medalist, and former holder (with teammates Alice Mills, Petria Thomas, and Jodie Henry) of the world record in the women's 4 × 100 metre relay (with a time of 3:35.94). Lenton was also a bronze medalist in the Women's 50 metre Freestyle. She had previously been the holder of the 100 m Freestyle world record (53.66) set at the Olympic swimming Trials held in Sydney, … - Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller (June 2 1904 - January 20 1984) was an American swimmer and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in films, a role he played in twelve motion pictures. Other actors also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller was the best-known. - Kieren Perkins
Kieren John Perkins OAM (born August 14, 1973), is a former Australian professional swimmer. One of the world's best-ever long-distance swimmers, he won two Olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996 in the 1500-metre freestyle, and a silver medal in 2000. - Shane Gould
Shane Gould (born November 23 1956) is an Australian former swimmer who won three gold medals, a silver and bronze in 1972 Summer Olympics. Subsequently, she retired at age 16. - Michael Klim
Michael Klim OAM (born August 13, 1977 in Gdynia) is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. Klim was first selected to represent Australia in the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada in 1994, while still a student at Wesley College, Melbourne. In 1996, he arrived at the Atlanta Olympics ranked first in the world for the 200 m freestyle, but was surprisingly eliminated in the heats. He rebounded to qualify for a finals position in the 100 m butterfly, … - Filippo Magnini
Filippo Magnini (born February 2 1982) is an Italian swimmer, currently 100 m freestyle World Champion. - Charles Daniels
Charles Meldrum Daniels (born March 21, 1885 in Dayton, Ohio - died August 9, 1973 in Carmel Valley, California) was a freestyle swimmer from the United States, who won a total number of five Olympic golds during his career. In the 1904, 1906 and 1908 Summer Olympics, Daniels won five gold medals [(220 yard freestyle, 440 yard freestyle, 4 x 50 yard freestyle relay, 100m freestyle (twice)], one silver medal (100 yard freestyle), and two bronze medals (50 yard freestyle, … - 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. - Ian Crocker
Ian Lowell Crocker (born August 31, 1982 in Portland, Maine) is an American swimmer who won gold medals in both the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of national team in the 4x100 medley relay. Both teams set world records in the event. He trains six days a week, up to 12 km of swimming per day and is based at the University of Texas at Austin, where he trains alongside fellow world record holders Aaron Peirsol and Brendan Hansen under Eddie Reese. - 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. - Tom Jager
Thomas ("Tom") Michael Jager (born October 6, 1964) is a former freestyle swimmer from the Collinsville, Illinois, who who earned seven medals, including five golds, in three Summer Olympics. Jager ended his career at the 1996 Olympic Trials, where at the age of 31, he attempted to qualify for his fourth Olympic team. He was a leader in the world of swimming for post-graduates. - Jodie Henry
Jodie Clare Henry OAM (born 17 November 1983), Australian swimmer, is a triple Olympic gold medallist and a four time gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games,former world champion in the 100 m freestyle and former women's world record holder for the 100 metre freestyle. With team mate Libby Lenton, a member of the world record breaking and gold medallist 4x100 m freestyle & the 4x100 m medley teams for Australia in the new mellenium. - David Davies
David Davies (born March 3 1985 in Barry, Wales, United Kingdom) is a British long-distance swimmer. Davies competed in the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England.Still a teenager, he took part in the European Junior Championships where he won gold in 2003. Specialising in the 1,500 metres freestyle, he competed in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where he took the bronze medal in a time of 14:45.95 (a British and European record), … - Susie O'Neill
Susan "Susie" O'Neill (born August 2, 1973) is an Australian former competitive swimmer from Brisbane, Queensland, who was famously nicknamed "Madame Butterfly". She won the 200 m butterfly at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 200 m freestyle in Sydney. After winning a gold and a silver medal in her first attendance at an international competition at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, O'Neill never failed to win a medal at any international meet she attended, … - Romain Barnier
Romain Barnier (born May 10, 1976 in Marseille) is a freestyle swimmer from France, who won the bronze medal in the 100m Freestyle at the European SC Championships 2001. He competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 2000. - Dara Torres
Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967, in Los Angeles, California) is an American swimmer. She was the first swimmer from her country to compete in four Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, and 2000. She has won nine Olympic medals, including four golds, and won five medals alone in at Sydney in 2000, the Games in which she was the eldest member on the team with her 33 years. She is currently training for the 2008 Summer Olympics and would become the oldest female Olympic swimmer, … - John Devitt
John Devitt (born February 4 1937 in Granville, New South Wales) was an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won a gold medal in the 100 m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He won in controversial circumstances, being awarded the gold medal despite the timekeepers recording a slower time than the silver medallist Lance Larson of the United States. He also claimed a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, … - Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou (born October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne) is an Olympic, World and European French champion swimmer. - Petria Thomas
A winner of 15 national titles, Petria Ann Thomas OAM (born August 25 1975) is an Australian swimmer and Olympic gold medallist. She was born in Lismore, New South Wales and grew up in the nearby town of Mullumbimby. In 1994, at the age of 17, Thomas won a bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly at the World Championships. She followed this with two gold medals, in the 100 m butterfly and 4x100 m freestyle in the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. - Murray Rose
Iain Murray Rose was born on January 6, 1939 in Nairn, Scotland, but he moved to Australia with his family at an early age after World War II. He took up swimming as a boy and was an Olympic Games champion at age 17. Rose became an Olympian for the first time at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He won the 400 meter and 1500 meter freestyle races and was a member of the winning team in the 4x200 meter relay. - Jason Lezak
Jason Edward Lezak is an American swimmer. He is a member of the Irvine Novaquatics. He went to Irvine High School in 1994, then to University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He is 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) and weighs 93 kg (205 pounds). Lezak is specialist of 50 and 100 m freestyle races. Lezak's first long-course international swimming gold medal was in 2003, when he won the 4×100 m medlay relay, setting new world record. - Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn (born August 24, 1973) is a former Dutch swimmer, and a four-time Olympic champion. - Duke Kahanamoku
Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku (August 24, 1890 - January 22, 1968), is generally regarded as the person who popularized the modern sport of surfing. He was also an Olympic champion in swimming. - Chris Fydler
Christopher ("Chris") John Fydler (born November 8, 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a former freestyle swimmer from Australia, who competed in three consequentive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992. His finest hour came eight years later, when he was a member of the Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Team, that defeated the United States and won the gold medal in the prestigieus event, alongside Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim and Ashley Callus. - Debbie Meyer
Deborah ("Debbie") Elizabeth Meyer (born August 14, 1952 in Annapolis, Maryland) is a former American swimmer who won the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle swimming events in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. At 16 years old, she became the first swimmer to win three individual gold medals in one Olympics. Meyer set world records in 200m, 400m and 800m in the Olympics trials. Her winning times at the Olympics were 2:10.5 for 200m, 4:31.8 for 400m and 9:24.0 for 800m, … - Ashley Callus
Ashley Callus (born March 10 1979) is an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer, who won a gold medal in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Coming from Brisbane, Queensland, Callus, graduated in Iona College, he was coached by Chris Urquhart, spent the beginning of his career as the understudy of fellow Australians Michael Klim and Chris Fydler. After finishing fourth in the 100m freestyle at the 2000 Australian Championships, … - John Konrads
John Konrads (born May 21 1942) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won the 1500 m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. In his career, he set 26 individual world records, and after his swimming career ended, was the Australasian director of L'Oreal, as well as campaigning for the Sydney Olympics bid. Along with his sister Ilsa Konrads, who also set multiple world records, they were known as the "Konrad Kids". - Cullen Jones
Cullen Jones (born 29 February 1984, The Bronx, New York, United States) is an American freestyle sprint swimmer. He swims for the NC State Aquatics Team (NCST-NC) where he is coached by Brooks Teal JR. He burst onto the international swimming scene at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships in Victoria, BC. He is a student athlete at North Carolina State University and is majoring in English with a minor in Psychology. - Sandra Morgan
Sandra Morgan (born June 6 1942 in Tamworth, New South Wales), known after marriage as Sandra Beavis was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1950s, who won a gold medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. At the age of 14 years and 6 months, she remains the youngest Australian to have won an Olympic gold medal. - Vladimir Salnikov
Vladimir Valer'evich Salnikov (born May 21, 1960) is a Russian former swimmer who competed for the USSR and set 12 world records in the 400-meter, 800-meter, and 1,500-meter freestyle. Nicknamed a "monster in the waves", he was the first man to swim under fifteen minutes in the 1500-meter freestyle. He was named the Male World Swimmer of the Year in 1982 by "Swimming World magazine". - Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Dianne Benko (born November 29, 1976 in Elkhart, Indiana) is a freestyle swimmer from the United States, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 (Sydney, Australia). There she was a member of the US relay team that won the title in the 4x200m freestyle. Four years later in Athens, Greece she earned gold swimming prelims of the 4x200m free relay, and silver swimming the heats of the 4x100m free relay. - Duncan Armstrong
Duncan John D'Arcy Armstrong <small>OAM</small> (born April 7, 1968 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1980s, who won gold in the 200 m freestyle at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. He is currently a swimming commentator on Channel Nine's "Wide World of Sports" and is also a well known swimming safety advocate. Coached by the flamboyant Laurie Lawrence, Armstrong made his debut in the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, … - John Marshall
John Birnie Marshall (born March 29, 1930 - died January 31, 1957) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s who won a silver and bronze medal in the 1500 m and 400 m freestyle respectively at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Despite his Olympic results suggesting that he only had a moderate international, he broke 28 world records. Born in Bondi, New South Wales, Marshall made his first headlines as a 16 year old, … - Josh Davis
Joshua Clark Davis (born September 1, 1972 in San Antonio, Texas) is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States, who won five medals as a member of US Men's Relay Teams: three golds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and two silvers four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. - William Smith
William Smith (born May 16, 1924) was one of the greatest competitive swimmers of the first half of the 20th Century. He was a four-time All-American on the Ohio State University swim team. He was undefeated in fours years of duel meet competition. He set seven world records and won 14 National Championships: seven NCAA, six NAAU indoor and one NAAU outdoor. He won two gold medals at the 1948 Olympic Games in the 400 freestyle and 800 freestyle relay. - Buster Crabbe
Buster Crabbe (February 7, 1908 - April 23, 1983) was an American athlete turned actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s.
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