- 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.
- Stephanie Rice
Stephanie Rice (born 17 June 1988 in Queensland), is a swimmer from Brisbane, Australia. She is a Commonwealth Gold medalist in the 200 metres Individual Medley from the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia where she defeated Olympians Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll to claim the gold medal in the event in a time of 2:12.90, a personal best by 1.19sec. She also won the 400m individual medley.
- Leisel Jones
Leisel Marie Jones OAM (born 30 August, 1985 in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia) is an Australian swimmer. A participant in the 2000 Summer Olympics - at just 15 years old - and 2004 Summer Olympics, she was part of Gold medal winning Australian team in the Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Athens Games in 2004. She is noted for employing a classical breaststroke technique, typified by a slow, but deeper stroke cycle, …
- 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.
- Tom Dolan
Tom Dolan is a swimmer from the United States, who won a gold medal and silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He swam for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, under the guidance of coach Jon Urbanchek, just like two of his main rivals Eric Namesnik and Marcel Wouda. Started with the Curl-Burke Swim Club, Dolan held the world record in the 400m individual medley longer than any other swimmer in history (eight years), …
- Cathleen Rund
Cathleen Rund (born November 3, 1977 in Berlin) is a former backstroke and medley swimmer from Germany, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. There she won the bronze medal in the 200m Backstroke. Rund retired from international competition after the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
- Tamás Darnyi
Tamás Darnyi is a Hungarian retired male swimmer. He is considered by many to be the greatest all-round swimmer in history. He won four gold medals at two Olympic Games (1988 and 1992) in the individual medley. He was named Male World Swimmer of the Year in 1987 and 1991 by" Swimming World magazine". <br> <br
- 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.
- Dean Kent
Dean Matthew Kent (born on November 6, 1978 in Palmerston North) is a swimmer from New Zealand, who has represented New Zealand at both Olympic and Commonwealth Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, he set the New Zealand record for the 200m medley. Kent also set the New Zealand record for the 400 medley at the Athens Olympics. He has represented New Zealand in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.
- Tim McKee
Alexander Timothy ("Tim") McKee (born March 14 1953) was a medley and backstroke swimmer from the United States. He won a silver medal in the 400 m Individual Medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics with a margin of 0.002 seconds to the winner. At the beginning, the scoreboard showed his as number one along with Larsson. He also came second in 400 m Individual Medley event at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after Rod Strachan.
- Annika Mehlhorn
Annika Mehlhorn (born August 5, 1983 in Kassel, Hessen) is a butterfly and medley swimmer from Germany who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She became European champion in the 200m Butterfly at the European SC Championships 2000 in Valencia. At the same event Mehlhorn won the silver medal at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
- Jennifer Reilly
Jennifer Reilly (born 6 July 1983 in Geraldton, Western Australia) is an Australian medley swimmer. Reilly has won the 400 metre individual medley event at Telstra Australian Championships 8 out of the last 9 years, having to withdraw from the final in 2005 and was runner up in 1998. Reilly, born in Geraldton and growing up in Perth, …
- François van Kruijsdijk
François Henricus van Kruijsdijk is a former medley swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. There he was eliminated in the heats of the 200m Individual Medley.
- Alice Mills
Alice Mary Mills OAM (born May 23, 1986 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian sprint freestyle, butterfly and individual medley swimmer who represented Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics, winning two relay gold medals. Trained by her coach Shannon Rollason at the Chandler Sports Complex along with her good friend Jodie Henry, Mills was selected to make her international debut at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, at the age of 16, …
- Ute Geweniger
Ute Geweniger (born February 24 1964 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany) was a breaststroke and medley swimmer of the 1980s who was a leading member of the East German swimming team. She won two Olympic gold medals, in the 100 m breaststroke and 4x100 m medley relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and set seven individual and two relay world records.
- Thiago Pereira
Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira (born January 26, 1986 in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro) is a medley swimmer from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the 200m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, just behind George Bovell of Trinidad and Tobago. Pereira's biggest success so far came one year later, when he won the world title in the same event at the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships.
- Allison Wagner
Allison Wagner (born July 21, 1977) was a former American medley swimmer, who won the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the 400m individual medley. She was also named as the American Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World magazine in 1994. Wagner won gold and silver respectively in the 200m and 400m individual medley at the 1993 FINA Short Course World Championships in Spain. Her time in the 200m medley is still standing as the world record in that event.
- Keith Beavers
Keith Beavers (born February 9, 1983 in London, Ontario) is a backstroke and medley swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The student kinesiology of the University of Waterloo emerged as one of Canada's brightest young stars in 2002 when he won the bronze medal, and broke the Canadian record in the Men's 200m Backstroke at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
- Matthew Dunn
Matthew Stephen Dunn (born September 2, 1973 in Leeton, New South Wales) is a former Olympic freestyle and medley swimmer swimmer who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for Australia, starting in 1992. He trained under the guidance of Russia's swimming coach Gennadi Touretski, the same man who coached the legendary Alexander Popov. Dunn was a specialist in the short course (25m) events; there he won several medals in the 1990s.
- Joanne Malar
Joanne Malar is a former medley swimmer from Canada, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. Canadian Olympic swimmer Swimming was important to her and her family, because her family camped often. She has two sisters and a brother, and speaks French. She attended McMaster University. She is also married to Delano Duchek Malar’s first pool experience was when she was five weeks old.
- Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou (born October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne) is an Olympic, World and European French champion swimmer.
- Lara Carroll
Lara Carroll (born 8 December 1986 in Cambridge, England) is an Australian swimmer living in Perth, Australia. Carroll made her international debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she finished 6th in the 200m individual medley. She claimed her first international medals later that year at the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis, claiming silver and bronze in the 200m and 400m individual medley respectively.
- Pablo Morales
Pedro Pablo Morales (born December 5, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois) was an Olympic swimmer for the United States. He won a relay gold and two silver medals swimming Butterfly at the 1984 Summer Olympics and set the world record in the 100m Butterfly at the Olympic Trials that year as well as setting relay records with teammates Rick Carey, Steve Lundquist, and Rowdy Gaines. However, in 1988 on the heels of a record 11th NCAA individual championship at Stanford University, …
- Robert van der Zant
Robert van der Zant (born February 2, 1975 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a former medley swimmer who competed for Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There he finished in fourteenth position in the 200m Individual Medley. Van der Zant has Dutch ancestors.
- Rachel Harris
Rachel Harris (born March 15, 1979 - May 22, 2007 in Perth, Western Australia) is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from Australia, who competed for her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she finished in fifth position in the 800m Freestyle, and in fifth spot as well in the 400m Individual Medley. Harris won the golden medal in the 800m Freestyle at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Curtis Myden
Curtis Allen Myden (born December 31, 1973 in Calgary, Alberta) is a former international breaststroke and medley swimmer from Canada, who competed at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 (Barcelona, Spain). He won a total number of three medals at the Olympics, all of them bronze. Myden was one of Canada's leading swimmers in the 1990s.
- Eric Namesnik
Eric John Namesnik (August 7, 1970 - January 11, 2006) was an Olympic swimmer for the United States. He was born and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Butler, Pennsylvania. Namesnik won silver medals in the 400-meter individual medley at both the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics. He also won a bronze medal in the 400 IM at the 1994 world championships, and two silvers at the 1991 world meet. He broke the American record for the 400 m IM four times.
- Kristine Quance
Kristine Quance (born April 1, 1975 in Northridge, Los Angeles, California) was an American breaststroke and medley swimmer of the 1990s, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, winning a gold medal in the 4x100m medley relay. Her career peaked in 1997 when she was named as American Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World magazine. Training at the Trojan club of the University of Southern California, …
- Marcel Wouda
Marcel Reinier Wouda (January 23, 1972 in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch former swimmer, who became Holland's first world champion when he won the world title in the 200m individual medley at the FINA 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia. Wouda grew up in Uden, where he joined the 'De Zeester' swimming club at a very young age. His trainers were Martien Swinkels and Rob Kennis, who brought him to the top of Dutch swimming.
- Gary Hall Sr.
Gary Hall, Sr. (born August 7 1951 in Fayetteville) is an ophthalmologist from Phoenix, Arizona who became famous during the late 1960s and the 1970s, as an Olympic swimmer for the United States. Hall first went to represent the United States in the 1968 Olympic Games held at Mexico City, Mexico. Two years later he broke the world record in the 200m butterfly. At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, terrorism hit him close, as these were the games of the Munich Massacre.
- Brooke Hanson
Brooke Louise Hanson OAM (born March 18 1978 in Manly, New South Wales) is an Australian swimmer. A swimmer since the age of four, Hanson was the youngest swimmer on the Australian national team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where she finished fourth in the 200 m breaststroke. However, she would not qualify for another major international competition for eight years, until she qualified for the 100 m breaststroke and 200 m breaststroke at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
- Jani Sievinen
Jani Nikanor Sievinen (born March 31, 1974 in Vihti) is a former medley swimmer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Together with Antti Kasvio he was Finland's leading swimmer in the 1990s, thanks to his father Esa Sievinen who made him one of the most versatile swimmers in the world. He won his first title in long course, at the 1993 European Swimming Championships in Sheffield, …
- Attila Czene
Attila Czene (born June 20, 1974 in Budapest) is a former medley swimmer from Hungary, who won the gold medal in the 200 m Individual Medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992.
- Tracy Caulkins
Tracy Ann Caulkins (born January 11, 1963) is a former three time gold medal winning swimmer from the United States. Caulkins is perhaps best remembered for her adeptness at all four major competitive swimming strokes; the butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke, and freestyle. Caulkins competed at various levels in all four strokes and also in the individual medley, which combines all four strokes over the course of a single race, and won national titles in all five races.
- Summer Sanders
Summer Elisabeth Sanders (born October 13 1972 in Roseville, California) is a sports broadcaster, actress and retired Olympic medalist in swimming.
- Massimiliano Rosolino
Massimiliano Rosolino (born July 11, 1978), is an Italian swimmer.
- Luca Marin
Luca Marin is an Italian Medley swimmer. He is specialized in 400 m medley, he won five silver medal at European and World Championship in this event. At the 2006 European Championship he won a gold medal beating László Cseh, world record holder. He participated for Italy in the Summer Olympics of Athens 2004 achieving 10th place.<br>; He is currently engaged to the French swimmer Laure Manaudou, Olympic gold medalist.
- Tom Wilkens
Thomas Peter ("Tom") Wilkens (born November 25, 1975 in Middletown, New Jersey) is a swimmer from the United States, who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics The breaststroker was one of the featured swimmers in P.H. Mullen's book Gold in the Water. He grew up swimming at the Middletown Swim and Tennis Club on Harmony Road. He attended Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, NJ, and graduated from Stanford University.
- Krisztina Egerszegi
Krisztina Egerszegi (born August 16, 1974) is a Hungarian former swimmer, one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era.
- David Wharton
David ("Dave") Lee Wharton (born May 19, 1969 in Warminster, Pennsylvania) is a former butterfly and medley swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the 400m Individual Medley at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Wharton set two world records during his career, was named the "Pac-10 Male Swimmer of the Year" four consecutive years (1988-91), and was also a member of the 1992 Summer Olympics team.