List of Famous Swimmers

Rūta Meilutytė is a retired Lithuanian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and world record-holder. She is the current world record holder in the 100 metre breaststroke.

Mewen Tomac is a French swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 and 200 metre backstroke event at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships, in Budapest, Hungary and in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.

Dagmar Hase is a former German swimmer, specialised in the freestyle and backstroke. She won seven Olympic medals in her career, including a gold medal in the 400 m freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Antje Buschschulte is a former German swimmer. Her best disciplines were the short distance backstroke and freestyle races. Buschschulte swam for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. She participated in Olympic Games 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and won 5 olympic Bronze Medals. She was World Champion in 100m backstroke 2003 in Barcelona. In total Antje won 57 international medals. She is the only German swimmer who participated for 14 years in a row (1995–2008) in every major longcourse championship.

Derya Büyükuncu is a six-time Olympic backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Turkey. The 1.90 m tall athlete at 90 kg (200 lb) is a member of Galatasaray Swimming. His coach is Zehra Büyükuncu.

Christian Keller. is a former medley and freestyle swimmer from Germany, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992. Four years later the three-time European Junior Champion won the bronze medal with the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay. Keller was named German Swimmer of the Year for two consecutive years: 1994 and 1995.

Farida Hisham Osman is an Egyptian competitive swimmer who specializes in butterfly and freestyle events. An All-Africa Games gold medalist and Egyptian national champion and record-holder. Osman is the fastest female swimmer in Egypt and Africa, she is currently coached by Teri McKeever. Osman holds the senior national records for all the butterfly, freestyle and backstroke events, as well as African records in the 50m and 100m butterfly.

Yana Oleksandrivna Klochkova is a Ukrainian swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold. She is Merited Master of Sports (1998), Hero of Ukraine (2004) and the most awarded Olympian from Ukraine.

Marcelo Chierighini is a Brazilian competitive swimmer.

Franziska Hentke is a German former butterfly swimmer.