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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]
At age six, his family returned to Sacramento, California, and he began to compete at his local swim club. At age nine, he was training at Arden Hills Swim Club in Sacramento with swimming coach Sherm Chavoor, who mentored six other Olympic medal winners. At 10, Spitz held one world age-group record and 17 national records. [8]
List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (women) List of gold medalist relay teams in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships; European Aquatics Championships – Multiple medalists in swimming
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James Edward "Doc" Counsilman (December 28, 1920 – January 4, 2004) [5] was an Olympic and hall-of-fame swimming coach from the United States. He was the head swimming coach at Indiana University (IU) from 1957 to 1990. [6]
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 ...
Swimming is one of the most popular sports and activities in the world. [1] [2] The following list of swimmers, each of whom has been covered in reliable sources from around the world, is divided up by country, and arranged alphabetically by surname. This list is by no means complete.
Georgia Beth Davies (born 11 October 1990) is a British competition swimmer who has represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and European championships, and swam for Wales in the Commonwealth Games. [1]