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| Mark Spitz |
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| He is a great swimmer in the swimming history. He earned 11 Olympic medals and became a fourth highest medalist in the Olympic history and jointly the highest in Men’s Swimming. |
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| Matthew (”Matt”) Nicholas Biondi |
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| Mathew also earned 11 Olympic Medals, and 8 of them are Gold Medals. His best Olympic performance was 1988 held in Seoul where he got 7 medals including 5 gold. |
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| Johnny Weissmuller |
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| He is another talented swimmer in the swimming history. This multi skilled legend is also very famous for playing the role of Tarzan in the movie titled ‘Tarzan’, one of the successful movies ever released in Hollywood. |
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| Ian James Thorpe |
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| Thorpe is one of the most popular swimmers in the present world. Having participated in two Olympic Games, He got nine medals including five gold. |
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| Michael Fred Phelps II |
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| Phelps is another American swimmer in the present world. He holds 4 world records now. Phelps dominates in other swimming competitions like World Championship, Pan pacific Championship etc. |
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| Jennifer (”Jenny”) Elisabeth Thompson |
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| Jenny won 12 medals participating in four Olympics Games. Her number of Olympic gold medal is 8 which deserve her to be included in the list of one of the great Olympians. |
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| Krisztina Egerszegi |
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| Krisztina Participates in three Olympics Games, she bagged 7 medals in which 5 were gold. She was known as Backstroke queen and she holds the world record for 200m Backstroke. She won 4 gold medals in Backstroke event in Olympic Games. |
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| Dawn Lorraine Fraser |
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| An Australian swimmer that is mostly famous for her successes in the Freestyle event. In her three Olympic Games appearances, she could win 8 Olympic medals including 5 gold. |
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| Shane Gould |
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| She retired at the age of 16, in spite of having a great skill and potential. In her only Olympic games appearance in 1972 in Munich she won 5 medals including 3 gold. |
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