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Duncan Alexander Goodhew, MBE (born 27 May 1957) is an English former competitive swimmer.After swimming competitively in America as a collegian at North Carolina State University, he was an Olympic swimmer for Great Britain and won Olympic gold and bronze medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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“The Knox is not as hard as it looks, it’s literally just hot water,” Ramirez noted. “You don’t have to use shampoo if you don’t want to.
Diana Nyad / ˈ n aɪ ˌ æ d / (née Sneed; born August 22, 1949) is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. [2] Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan (28 mi or 45 km) in record time.
At the 2008 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, Beard finished second in the 200-meter breaststroke event, and she qualified for her fourth consecutive Olympics. On July 30, 2008, at the U.S. swimming team's final training in Singapore, Beard, together with Dara Torres and Natalie Coughlin , were elected co-captains of the U.S. Olympic women's swimming team.
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.
Michael Fred Phelps II [5] (born June 30, 1985) [6] is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time [7] with a total of 28 medals. [8]
Ederle was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1965. [8] She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2003. [16] An annual swim from New York City's Battery Park to Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is named the Ederle Swim to honor her, and follows the course she swam. [17] [18]