Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe, also known as the Thorpedo, was born on October 13, 1982 in Milperra, a suburb of Sydney,…
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Cullen Jones
Cullen Jones At age five Cullen Jones nearly drowned while splashing around at a Pennsylvania water park. Immediately after that…
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Pieter van den Hoogenband
Pieter Cornelis Ruud van den Hoogenband (often shortened to Pieter van den Hoogenband) was born on March 14th, 1978 in Maastricht,…
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Rebecca Soni
Rebecca Soni is a retired American Olympic swimmer who specialized in breaststroke. She is a six-time Olympic medalist, a former…
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Ryan Murphy
Ryan Murphy is a 4x Olympic champion and 6x Olympic medalist overall. He specializes in backstroke and represents the USA…
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Yannick Agnel
Yannick Agnel, French freestyle specialist, was born on June 9, 1992, in Nîmes. His parents named him after tennis player, Yannick Noah….
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Matt Grevers
Matt Grevers Take away the four Olympic gold medals, the three world championships, the four NCAA titles and the B1G…
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Tyler Clary
Tyler Clary Tyler Clary is an American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Clary…
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Ryan Lochte
Ryan Lochte Ryan Steven Lochte has become one of the most recognizable faces of swimming, overtaking the media’s attention leading…
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Dave Burgess
Dave began writing for SwimSwam in October of 2014. Originally from Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, Dave grew up like most young…
Kalen Darling
Kalen Darling graduated from Whitworth University in 2011 with a degree in journalism and mass communication. He was also an…
Samuel Wood
Samuel Wood swam club and high school for 12 years, choosing not to pursue a college career for academic reasons….
Robert Bernhardt
Robert, a Canadian-born native of Champaign Illinois, is a high school junior at King Henry VIII School in Coventry, England….
Christine Wixted
Hailing from the Mile High city of Denver, CO, Christine Wixted is a current senior at Duke University. Her swimming…
Jared Anderson
Jared Anderson just can’t stay away from the pool. A competitive career sixteen years and running wasn’t enough for this native Minnesotan, who continues to get his daily chlorine fix. A lifelong lover of writing, Jared now combines the two passions as Senior Reporter for SwimSwam.com, covering swimming at every level.
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