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Dagmar Hase
Dagmar Hase (born 1969, Quedlinburg/Thale) is a German swimmer, 1992 Olympic 400m freestyle champion with seven Olympic medals, ISHOF inductee 2013, later implicated in GDR doping records she denies.
Dai Jun
Dai Jun (戴骏), Chinese freestyle swimmer born 1992 in Shanghai; 2010 Youth Olympic 400 m freestyle champion, 2010 Asian Games relay gold, and 2012 London Olympic bronze in the 4x200 m freestyle relay.
Dan Jorgensen
Dan Jorgensen (Daniel Ploug Jorgensen, born 1968, New London, Connecticut), American distance freestyle swimmer; 1988 Olympic 4x200m relay gold and 1992 bronze, 1986 400m free American record 3:49.41, later VP of sales at S.R. Smith.
Dan Ketchum
Dan Ketchum (Daniel Ketchum, born 1981, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American swimmer who won Olympic gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at Athens 2004 and swam for the University of Michigan, winning three Big Ten 200-yard freestyle titles.
Daniel Kowalski
Daniel Kowalski, Australian distance freestyle swimmer born 1975 in Singapore; four-time Olympic medallist (silver 1500m, bronze 200m and 400m at Atlanta 1996, relay gold Sydney 2000), 1998 relay world record holder, retired 2002, now AOC Head of Olympian Services.
Daniela Gotz
Daniela Götz (born 1987, Nürnberg) is a German freestyle sprint swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay at Athens 2004, and member of Germany's 4x100 m freestyle relay world-record team (3:35.22, Budapest 2006).
Danila Izotov
Danila Izotov (Данила Сергеевич Изотов, born 1991) is a Russian freestyle swimmer: Olympic silver (4x200 m relay, Beijing 2008) and bronze (4x100 m relay, London 2012), 200 m freestyle world bronze, and two short-course relay world records.
Danyon Loader
Danyon Loader, New Zealand swimmer (born 1975, Timaru), won 200m and 400m freestyle gold at Atlanta 1996 and 200m butterfly silver at Barcelona 1992; set four short course world records and was the first New Zealander in the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Darian Townsend
Darian Townsend, South African-born swimmer, 2004 Athens Olympic gold medallist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay (world record 3:13.17), three-time Olympian for South Africa, later US citizen and 200 IM short course world record holder.
Dave Edgar
Dave Edgar (David Holmes Edgar, born 1950), American swimmer; 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the 4x100 m freestyle relay (3:26.42), seven-time NCAA champion for Tennessee, first man under 45 seconds for 100 yards freestyle.
Dave Fairbank
Dave Fairbank (David William Fairbank, born 1954) is an American swimmer from Sacramento who swam the heats of both US gold-winning relays at the 1972 Munich Olympics, setting a 4x100 m freestyle world record of 3:28.84, but received no medal under then-current rules.
Dave Lyons
David Lyons (David Chandler Lyons) is an American former swimmer and Yale University alum who won the gold medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Dave Walters
Dave Walters (David Walters, born 1987) is an American swimmer, 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay and 2009 Rome world record holder in the 4x200 free and 4x100 medley relays.
David Dickson
David Gavin Dickson (born 1941, Batu Gajah, Malaysia) is an Australian swimmer who won three Olympic relay bronzes at Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964, four Commonwealth relay golds, and set a 4x200 m freestyle world record in 1960.
David Fox
David Ashley Fox (born 1971), American sprint freestyle swimmer from Raleigh, North Carolina; 1996 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay, 1995 world record holder, NC State swimmer, NC Sports Hall of Fame inductee.
David Larson
David Larson, fully David Erwin Larson, is an American swimmer who won gold in the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
David Popovici
David Popovici, Romanian freestyle swimmer (born 2004, Bucharest), Olympic 200m freestyle champion and 100m bronze medalist at Paris 2024; first swimmer to win the 100m and 200m freestyle world titles twice (2022, 2025).
Davis Tarwater
Davis Tarwater (born 1984, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American swimmer, 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay and 2009 world champion in the same event, and a three-time NCAA champion for Michigan.
Dennis Rounsavelle
Dennis Rounsavelle (1940-2002), American swimmer for El Segundo High and USC; 1958 CIF 500-yard freestyle champion, 1960 NCAA 440-yard freestyle titlist, and 1959 world record holder in the 400-meter individual medley at 5:04.5.
Dick Blick
Dick Blick (Richard Adolph Blick), American swimmer born 1940 in Los Angeles; won gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 1960 Rome Olympics in world-record time 8:10.2, and won 11 NAIA titles at North Central College.
Dick Cleveland
Richard Fitch "Dick" Cleveland (1929–2002), Hawaiian-born American sprint freestyle swimmer, Ohio State All-American, 1952 Olympian, 1951 Pan Am triple gold medalist, and first swimmer to use heavy weight training.
Dick Hanley
Dick Hanley (Richard Dennis Hanley, 1936–2022), American freestyle swimmer; 1956 Melbourne Olympic silver medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, fifth in the 100 m free, and 200 m freestyle world record holder (2:01.5, 1957).
Don Schollander
Don Schollander (Donald Arthur Schollander, born 1946) is an American swimmer, first to win four golds at one Olympics (Tokyo 1964), five Olympic golds total, 22 world records, 1964 Sullivan Award winner.
Don Sheff
Don Sheff (Donald Alexander Sheff, born 27 June 1931, Brooklyn) is an American former Yale swimmer who swam the heats of the US 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics; 1952 rules denied heats swimmers medals. He held two relay world records and later directed the New York Institute of Photography.
Doug Northway
Doug Northway (Douglas Dale Northway, born 1955) is an American swimmer who won 1,500 m freestyle bronze at Munich 1972 and swam on the US 4x200 m freestyle relay that set the 7:30.33 world record at Montreal 1976.
Drew Kibler
Drew Kibler (Andrew Patrick Kibler), American freestyle swimmer born 2000 in Indianapolis; two-time Olympian (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) with Olympic relay silver in Paris, short course 4x200 free relay world record 6:44.12, and Texas Longhorns NCAA champion.
Duje Draganja
Duje Draganja (born 1983, Split) is a Croatian sprint swimmer, 2004 Athens Olympic silver medalist in the 50 m freestyle, two-time short-course world champion, and 2008 short-course 50 m freestyle world record holder (20.81).
Duncan Armstrong
Duncan Armstrong, born 1968 in Rockhampton, Queensland, is an Australian swimmer who won gold in the 200 meter freestyle at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in world record time.
Eamon Sullivan
Eamon Sullivan (born 1985) is a retired Australian sprint freestyle swimmer from Perth who held the 50 m and 100 m freestyle world records, won three Olympic medals at Beijing 2008, and retired in 2014 after shoulder and hip injuries.
Ed Townsend
Ed Townsend (Robert Edward Townsend, Jr., born 1943) is an American freestyle swimmer, four-time NCAA champion at Yale, 1963 world record holder in both freestyle relays, and member of the US first-place 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics; later a New York entertainment lawyer.