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Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold medals, each in world-record time.
Lynne Cox (born January 2, 1957) [1] is an American long-distance open water swimmer, writer, and speaker.She is best known for being the first person to swim between the United States and the Soviet Union, [2] [3] in the Bering Strait, a feat which has been recognized for easing the Cold War tensions between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
The swimming events at the 1896 Olympic Games were held in a bay in the Aegean Sea with swimmers being required to swim to the shore—Hungarian swimmer Alfréd Hajós won two gold medals that year, saying "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win."
58.2 1956 Melbourne details: Jon Henricks Australia: 55.4 WR: John Devitt Australia: 55.8 Gary Chapman Australia: 56.7 1960 Rome details: John Devitt Australia: 55.2 OR: Lance Larson United States: 55.2 OR: Manuel dos Santos Brazil: 55.4 1964 Tokyo details: Don Schollander United States: 53.4 OR: Robert McGregor Great Britain: 53.5 Hans-Joachim ...
Katie Ledecky, five-time female World Swimmer of the Year Inge de Bruijn, the only Dutch female World Swimmer of the Year Natalie Coughlin, female world Swimmer of the Year in 2002 Grant Hackett, male World Swimmer of the Year in 2005 Leisel Jones, female World Swimmer of the Year in 2005 and 2006 Sun Yang is the 2013 male World Swimmer of the Year and a five-time male Pacific Rim Swimmer of ...
Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky (/ l ə ˈ d ɛ k i / ⓘ lə-DEK-ee; born March 17, 1997) [6] is an American competitive swimmer.She has won nine Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer.
These tournaments are the only global long course (50 meter pool) swimming championships organized by world swimming federation FINA. This list gives an overview of the dominant swimmers throughout the history of swimming. Currently, the Olympic program includes 14 individual events, and the World Championships program 17.
The World Aquatics Athletes of the Year (formerly FINA Athletes of the Year) is a set of awards presented by World Aquatics (International Swimming Federation) and the FINA Aquatics World Magazine. Each recognises excellence in five categories of aquatic sports : swimming , diving , synchronized swimming , water polo and open water swimming .