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Jane Cederqvist
Jane Cederqvist (1945–2023), Swedish distance freestyle swimmer for SK Neptun; won 400 m freestyle silver at Rome 1960 aged 15, set 800 m and 1,500 m world records, first woman and youngest ever Svenska Dagbladet Bragdguldet recipient.
Janet Evans
Janet Evans (born 1971), American distance swimmer; four Olympic golds and one silver (1988-1996), seven world records in the 400, 800, and 1,500 m freestyle that stood about two decades; LA28 Chief Athlete Officer.
Janine Belton
Janine Belton (Janine Claire Belton, later Usher), born 1979 in Bradford, is a British swimmer who won gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 2001 Fukuoka World Championships and set a short-course world record of 7:47.14, after finishing 10th at Atlanta 1996 and 6th at Sydney 2000.
Jans Koster
Jans Koster (born 1938) is a Dutch swimmer who set two 1500 m freestyle world records (20:22.8 in 1956, 20:03.1 in 1957) and won the 1958 European 400 m freestyle title in Budapest.
Jason Lezak
Jason Lezak is a retired American sprint freestyle swimmer who won eight Olympic medals, four gold, across four Games from 2000 to 2012, best known for his 2008 relay anchor leg.
Jasper Aerents
Jasper Aerents, Belgian sprint freestyle swimmer born 1992 in Ghent; two-time Olympian (2012, 2016), 2013 short course 4x50 m freestyle relay world record holder, four European relay bronzes, retired with four Belgian records.
Jean Boiteux
Jean Boiteux (1933–2010) was a French freestyle swimmer who won the 400 m freestyle at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, becoming France's first Olympic swimming champion.
Jean Pierre Curtillet
Jean Pierre Curtillet is the name variant of Jean-Pascal Curtillet, a French freestyle swimmer, born 1942 in Algiers, who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.
Jean Taris
Jean Taris was a French freestyle swimmer who won silver in the 400 meters freestyle at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and held seven world records.
Jeff Farrell
Jeff Farrell (Felix Jeffrey Farrell, born 1937, Detroit) is an American swimmer who won two 1960 Rome Olympic golds anchoring world-record relays six weeks after an appendectomy, then set 27 masters world records.
Jeff Float
Jeff Float (Jeffrey James Float, born 1960, Buffalo, New York) is a deaf American swimmer who won 10 golds at the 1977 World Games for the Deaf and Olympic gold in the 1984 4x200m freestyle relay world record (7:15.69).
Jenny Kemp
Jenny Kemp (Jennifer Jo Kemp), American swimmer born 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio; Cincinnati Marlins backstroker who switched to freestyle, won 1972 Olympic gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay in world-record 3:55.19, and took 1975 Pan Am bronze in 100 m backstroke.
Jenny Turrall
Jenny Turrall (Jenny Lynnette Turrall-Wetton), Australian swimmer born 1960, set 800m and 1500m freestyle world records as a 13-year-old, won 800m gold at the 1975 Cali World Championships, and 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games 400m freestyle gold.
Jerry Heidenreich
Jerry Heidenreich (Jerôme Alan Heidenreich, 1950–2002), American swimmer and SMU star who won two relay golds, 100 m freestyle silver, and 100 m butterfly bronze at the 1972 Munich Olympics, setting six world records in relays.
Jill Sterkel
Jill Sterkel (Gillian Ann Sterkel), born 1961, American swimmer, first woman on four US Olympic swim teams (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988); two relay golds, two bronzes; later Texas head coach.
Jim Montgomery
Jim Montgomery (James Paul Montgomery, born 1955), American swimmer; first man under 50 seconds in the 100 m freestyle (49.99, Montreal 1976), three Olympic golds, five 1973 world titles, later a Dallas Masters coach and swim school founder.
Jo Harshbarger
Jo Ann Harshbarger (later Carson), born 1956, American distance freestyle swimmer; 1972 Olympian, world record holder in 800 m and 1,500 m freestyle, 1973 World Championships silver medalist.
Joakim Holmqvist
Joakim Holmqvist (Holmquist), born 1969, Swedish sprint freestyle swimmer; two Olympics (Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992), short course 4x100 m freestyle relay world record 3:14.00 (1989), and nine European sprint titles.
Joan Spillane
Joan Spillane (Joan Arlene Spillane-Postma), American swimmer born 1943 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey; 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay, swimming the first stage of a world-record 4:08.9 team.
Jodie Henry
Jodie Henry (Jodie Clare Henry, later Notting), Australian swimmer born 1983 in Brisbane; triple gold medallist and three-time world record setter at Athens 2004, first Australian woman since Dawn Fraser to win Olympic 100m freestyle; retired 2009.
Joe Alkire
Joe Alkire is an American swimmer listed in the men's 100 m freestyle long course world record progression with 55.10 set 1 June 1960, and in CIF Southern Section records for San Diego, 1959-1960.
Joe Hudepohl
Joe Hudepohl (Joseph Bernard Hudepohl, born 1973, Cincinnati) is an American freestyle swimmer who won two Olympic golds (4x100 relay 1992, 4x200 relay 1996) and a bronze, set a 3:15.11 4x100 freestyle relay world record in 1995, and starred for St. Xavier High and Stanford.
Joel Greenshields
Joel Greenshields (born 1988, Edson, Alberta) is a Canadian Olympic swimmer, 100 m freestyle specialist; 23rd at Beijing 2008, 2009 short-course 4x200 m freestyle relay world record holder, 2008 NCAA champion with Arizona.
Johan Kenkhuis
Johan Kenkhuis (born 1980, Vriezenveen) is a Dutch former freestyle swimmer, two-time Olympian, with relay silver at Athens 2004 and bronze at Sydney 2000, later SwimGym owner.
John Devitt
John Thomas Devitt (1937-2023), Australian freestyle sprint swimmer; two Olympic golds (1956 relay, 1960 100m), 14 world records; his controversial 1960 win over Lance Larson spurred electronic timing.
John Jarvis
John Arthur Jarvis (1872-1933), English swimmer and water polo player; won 1,000m and 4,000m freestyle and water polo gold at Paris 1900, plus 1906 Intercalated medals; 108 championships, Jarvis-Nuttall kick.
John Kinsella
John Pitann Kinsella, American freestyle swimmer from Oak Park, Illinois; 1968 Olympic 1500m silver, 1972 relay gold, first under 16 minutes for 1500m (1970), and World Professional Marathon Champion 1975-1979 who swam the English Channel in 9:10.
John Konrads
John Konrads (Jānis Konrads, 1942-2021), Latvian-born Australian swimmer, 1960 Olympic 1500m freestyle champion with two Rome bronzes; with sister Ilsa set 37 world records as the Konrads Kids.
John Nelson
John Nelson (John Maurer Nelson, born 1948, Chicago) is an American freestyle swimmer, Yale class of 1970, with three Olympic medals: 1964 silver 1500 m freestyle, 1968 bronze 200 m freestyle, and 1968 gold 4x200 m relay; he held the 400 m freestyle world record (4:11.8) for one day in 1966.
Jon Henricks
Jon Henricks (born 1935), Australian swimmer, double gold medallist at Melbourne 1956, winning the 100 m freestyle in world record 55.4 and the 4x200 m relay; not the jazz vocalist Jon Hendricks.