THE BEST of the BEST
Here you will find some of the best swimmers of all time and a few facts about them.
Michael Phelps
Phelps is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time.
His greatest achievements include:
28 Olympic metals
Broke the record for most first-place metals when he won 8 gold metals at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Named the Most Successful Athlete at four consecutive Olympic Games.
He is the World Record Holder for: 100 meter butterfly, 200 meter butterfly and 400 meter individual medley.
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
Michael Phelps
Natalie Coughlin
Coughlin is a 12-time Olympic medalist and the first female to ever swim the 100-meter backstroke in under one minute.
During the 2008 Olympics, she won 6 medals making her the first female athlete in Olympic history to win 6 medals in one Olympiad. She has won a total of 12 Olympic medals making her tied with two other swimmers for most all-time medals by a female swimmer. Coughlin earned the award of World Swimmer of the Year for one year and American Swimmer of the Year three times.
Winning a total of 60 medals in major international competition, Natalie Coughlin is easily one of our greats!
Without goals, training has no direction.
Natalie Coughlin
Rebecca
Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988, Adlington, is another one of the greats!
She broke the 19 year-old record of the 800-metre freestyle in the 2008 Summer Olympics. She also won gold for the 400-metre during those Olympic Games. Adlington was the first Britain swimmer to win gold since 1908.
Adlington was a specialist in freestyle and was able to retire at age 23.