Famous swimmers?

Question

Famous swimmers?

Answer 1

mike phelps, he is amazing and hot

Answer 2

Michael Phelps. Natalie Couligh. Gary Hall Jr. Ian Thorpe. Inge de Brun. Cullen Jones.  

There are a few. 1-3 are from USA. 4th one ( Ian) is from Australia, and Inge in from the Netherlands. WR Holder in 50 butterfly.  Cullen Jones is also from the USA, who swims for Mecklenberg Aquatic Club, and is one of the first african american swimmers to possibly make it to the Olympics this year in the 50 LCM Freestyle.

Answer 3

Ester Williams .

Answer 4

victor davis probably the best of all time

Answer 5

You, Micheal Jordan, Tiger Fox,Michael Gross, Jackson Kwan... wait are these all swimmers/ sorry im bad at sports

Answer 6

Brenda Fisher

On the 14th August 1956, 28-year-old Brenda Fisher became the third person to swim Lake Ontario. Her time of 18 hours 51 minutes broke Marilyn Bell's record time by 2 hours 4 minutes. She started at 10:45 pm from Niagara-on-the-Lake and finished at the eastern tip of Cherry Beach, Toronto.

Brenda was the daughter of a trawler Skipper from Grimsby, Lincolnshire in England. An attempt in the previous year, 1955, to swim Lake Ontario was unsuccessful.

An accomplished marathon swimmer, Brenda set a women's record for the English Channel in 1951 when she crossed from France to England in 12 hours 42 minutes - 73 minutes faster than the record time set earlier that year by the Welsh swimmer Jenny James. The photograph shows her at the completion of that swim and is taken from Sam Rockett's book "It's cold in the Channel". She completed a second crossing of the Channel in 1954 in 14 hours 36 minutes. Brenda was married to English soccer player Patick Johnston who played for Grimsby Town.

Brenda was champion of the Morecambe Bay (10 mile cross-bay sea swim) in 1948, a title which her sister, Jessie, had won in the previous year. Her brother, Buster, was also a swimmer who had swum the Humber River; he was killed in the Second World War.

Answer 7

gertrude ederly

Birth Name

Gertrude Caroline Ederle

Nickname

Trudy

Trivia

She donated most of her salary from "Swim Girl, Swim" to the Woman's Swimming Association, which had sponsored her first try at crossing the Channel. At the age of 21, she suffered a nervous breakdown, and in 1933, she fractured her pelvis and injured her spine in a fall. She was in a cast for four years. She did, however, recover and make a comeback at Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. She also claims to be the inventor of the two piece bathing suit, having cut up her favorite training suit to make it easier to swim the English Channel.

In 1925, she swam the 21 miles from the tip of Manhattan to Sandy Hook, New Jersey, in 7 hours 11.5 minutes, beating a record held by a man.

Due to stormy weather, she swam a total of 35 miles covering the 21-mile-wide English Channel. Conditions were so harsh, steamship crossings were canceled, and Ederle nearly quit seven minutes in because of a rough swell. Her time (14 hrs, 39 mins) demolished the record of 21 hrs, 45 mins set in 1875.

Won bronze medals in the 100 and the 400-meter individual freestyle and a gold medal in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay at the 1924 Olympics.

A childhood bout with measles and damage to her eardrums during the Channel swim left her entirely deaf by the 1940s. Ederle spent much of her later life teaching children to swim at the Lexington School for the Deaf in New York.

From 1921-1925, she set 29 national and world amateur records - seven records in one day in 1922 - from 50 yards to the half-mile.

During an English Channel attempt in 1925 a worried trainer grabbed her arm when she began coughing, disqualifying her when he touched her.

Swam in the 1924 Olympics in Paris with one second-place, one third-place, and one first on a relay team.