Fu Yuanhui
Chinese Olympian swimmer
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Katinka Hosszú
Hungarian world champion swimmer
Mina Wylie
One of Australia’s first Olympians, 1912 silver medal-winning swimmer
Inez Robie Patterson
Philadelphia’s Inez Patterson integrated pools and encouraged other African-American girls to swim too
Hydna of Scione
Ancient Greek swimmer and diver given credit for contributing to the destruction of the Persian navy in 480 BCE
Dr Margaret Downing
Margaret Downing was a pioneer in women’s sports, especially basketball, in Arkansas in the second half of the twentieth century.
Margaux Isaksen
Margaux Isaksen was a world-class competitor in the modern pentathlon, an Olympic sport in which athletes compete in fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and cross-country running. A three-time Olympian, Isaksen first started competing at the international level when she was fifteen.
Edwina Brocklesby
Edwina Brocklesby, who would go on to be the U.K.’s oldest Ironman triathlete and founder and director of Silverfit, which promotes physical activity among older people, “didn’t do any exercise at all until I was 50.”
Amy Appelhans Gubser
In 2024, 55-year-old Amy Appelhans Gubser made headlines like “This Grandmother Swam 30 Miles Through Shark-Infested Waters to Set a Record.”
Madonna Buder
Sister Madonna Buder, also known as the “Iron Nun,” competed in her first triathlon in 1982 at age 52—and then did around 400 more over the next four decades.