List of Famous Swimmers
Chase Kalisz
Chase Tyler Kalisz is an American competition swimmer who specializes in the individual medley, but also competes in the breaststroke and butterfly events.
Mireia Belmonte
Mireia Belmonte García is a Spanish Olympic, world, and European champion swimmer. She is the first female Olympic champion in the history of Spanish swimming and is widely considered to be the greatest Spanish swimmer of all time.
Daiya Seto
Daiya Seto is a Japanese competitive swimmer who swims in the individual medley, butterfly, breaststroke, and freestyle events. He won the gold medal in the 400 meter individual medley at the 2012, 2014, and 2016 world short course championships, as well as at the 2013 and 2015 world long course championships. Seto holds the world records in the 200 meter butterfly and the 400 meter individual medley.
Duncan Scott
Duncan William MacNaughton Scott is a British swimmer representing Great Britain at the FINA World Aquatics Championships and the Olympic Games, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. An all-rounder in the pool, Scott has swum internationally in 100 and 200 metres freestyle and butterly, and 200 metres individual medley. He has won two golds at the World Championships in 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay, a gold in the 4 x 100 metre medley relay, as well as silvers at the World Championships and Olympics in freestyle and medley relay. Individually, Scott was the 100 metre freestyle champion at the 2015 European Games and 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the 200 metre freestyle champion at the same European Games and the 2018 European Aquatics Championships.
Tatjana Schoenmaker
Tatjana Schoenmaker is a South African swimmer specialising in breaststroke events. She won the silver medal in the 100-metre breaststroke at the 2020 Olympic Games.
Yui Ohashi
Yui Ohashi is a Japanese swimmer, specializing in the medley events. She became the first Japanese woman to dip beneath the 2:08-barrier in the women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, finishing with a silver-medal time and a national record of 2:07.91. She qualified to represent Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Dana Vollmer
Dana Whitney Vollmer is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning United States team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay that set the world record in the event. Eight years later at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Vollmer set the world record on her way to the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly, and also won golds in the 4×100-meter medley relay and 4×200-meter freestyle relay. She won three medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Alexander Popov
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Popov, better known as Alexander Popov, is a former Russian swimmer. Widely considered the greatest sprint swimmer in history, Popov won gold in the 50-metre and 100 m freestyle at the 1992 Olympics and repeated the feat at the 1996 Olympics, and is the only male in Olympic games history to defend both titles. He held the world record in the 50 m for eight years, and the 100 m for six. In 2003, aged 31, he won 50 m and 100 m gold at the 2003 World Championships.
Kyle Chalmers
Kyle Chalmers, is an Australian competitive swimmer who specialises in the sprint freestyle events. He is the Olympic champion in the 100 m freestyle and Vice World Champion in the 100 m freestyle.
Cody Miller
Cody Miller is an American competitive swimmer who specializes in the breaststroke currently representing DC Trident at the International Swimming League. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Miller won a bronze medal in the men's 100 metre breaststroke and a gold medal in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay, in which he performed the breaststroke leg of the final.