Top Ten Swimmers of All Time

The Top Ten
1 Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American former competitive swimmer and the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic ...read more.

Crazy how he got a chance to race a SHARK!

Holds the fastest time in all events

He is AWESOME and so fast.

No one can beat this guy

2 Mark Spitz Mark Andrew Spitz is an American former competitive swimmer, nine-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in seven events.
3 Missy Franklin
4 Rebecca Soni

So good at breaststroke.

5 Ryan Lochte
6 Ragnhild Hveger
7 Matthew Nicholas Biondi
8 Ian James Thorpe

We now know he was a steroid user who just never got caught.

9 Johnny Weissmuller
10 Emma Hull
The Contenders
11 Diana Nyad

She was the 1st and Only person to swim from Cuba to Florida.
She spent nearly all her body energy and her life while doing it, and experienced the worst pain known to humans by Box Jellyfish.
It was like a Suicide Mission.

12 Tamas Darnyi

Greatest swimmer in medley with 4 olympic gold medals and unbeatable for 8 years.

13 Lenny Krayzelburg
14 Kristin Otto
15 Pieter van den Hoogenband

I met him once. He is so sweet. And such a great swimmer.

16 Jenny Elisabeth Thompson
17 Dawn Lorraine Fraser
18 Katie Ledecky

No one can even touch her in the pool! She's amazing and the queen of distance!

19 Krisztina Egerszegi
20 Sun Yang

Pretty good swimmer

21 Matt Biondi
22 Vladimir Salnikov
23 Inge de Bruijn
24 Kyle Chalmers

He really helped Australia in the 2016 olympics, definitely one of our best athletes.

25 Shane Gould
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