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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 ...
Her six individual gold medals are the most of any female Olympic swimmer and female US Olympian, and the second-most of all Olympic swimmers behind Michael Phelps. She became the first swimmer to win a distance event three times in a row, as well as the youngest and oldest person to win the 800 free (at age 15 in 2012 and age 24 in 2021).
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1912 Stockholm details: Fanny Durack Australasia Wilhelmina Wylie Australasia Jennie Fletcher Great Britain 1920 Antwerp details: Ethelda Bleibtrey United States
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. The ...
Katie Ledecky just won another gold medal at the Paris Olympics, breaking the record for most golds by any American female swimmer. The 27-year-old had a historic 800-meter freestyle swim on Aug ...
The comparisons of contemporary women’s times to historical men’s times are a fascinating window into the progression of the sport of swimming. ... women’s 200-meter freestyle in 1:52.23 and ...
A British endurance swimmer is believed to have broken a world record for the fastest female to swim across Lake Geneva. Sam Farrow, 31, from Wigan in Greater Manchester, continuously swam the ...
Van Dyken had severe asthma throughout her childhood and into adulthood. She began swimming on the advice of a doctor as a way to strengthen her lungs to cope with her condition and prevent future asthma attacks. She was named Swimming World 's American Swimmer of the Year in 1995 and 1996.