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John Moffet
John Clifford Moffet (born 1964) is an American breaststroke swimmer, 1980 and 1984 Olympian, 100 m breaststroke world record holder (1:02.13), and later a three-time Emmy-winning TV producer for The Amazing Race.
John Monckton
John James Monckton (1938-2017), Australian backstroke swimmer; silver in 100 m backstroke at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, seventh at Rome 1960, beaten both times by David Theile; set 100 m and 200 m backstroke world records in 1958.
John Naber
John Phillips Naber, American backstroke swimmer, won four golds in world-record time plus a silver at Montreal 1976, set six world records, won 10 NCAA titles for USC, and took the 1977 Sullivan Award.
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.
Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller (Peter Johann Weissmüller, 1904–1984), Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor; five Olympic swimming golds, first under 1 minute for 100 m freestyle, played Tarzan in 12 films 1932–1948.
Joke de Korte
Joke de Korte (Johanna Catharina de Korte-Vuijk, born 1935) is a Dutch swimmer, 4th in the 1952 Olympic 100 m backstroke, double 1954 European silver medalist, and 4×100 m medley relay world record holder.
Jolanda de Rover
Jolanda de Rover (de Rover-Toussaint), Dutch backstroke swimmer born 1963; 1984 Olympic gold 200 m backstroke (2:12.38) and bronze 100 m; three Olympiads; mother of Kira Toussaint.
Jon Cleveland
Jon Cleveland (Jonathan Thomas Cleveland, born 1970, Fresno, California) is a Canadian breaststroke swimmer, 1992 Olympic 4x100 m medley relay bronze medalist and 1992 short course world record holder, who swam at three Olympics for Canada.
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.
Jon Olsen
Jon Olsen (Jon C. Olsen, born 1969, New Britain, Connecticut), American freestyle sprinter; five Olympic medals (four gold, all relays) at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996; world-record relay swimmer; later Florida Keys swim coach.
Jon Sieben
Jon Sieben (Jonathan Scott Sieben, born 1966, Brisbane) is an Australian swimmer who won the 1984 Olympic 200m butterfly in world record 1:57.04, beating Michael Gross and Pablo Morales, and competed at three Olympics.
Jonty Skinner
Jonty Skinner (John Alexander Skinner), South African sprint swimmer born 1954, barred from the 1976 Olympics by the apartheid ban; weeks later he set a 100 m freestyle world record of 49.44 that stood until 1981, then became a leading coach.
Jopie Selbach
Jopie Selbach (Johanna Katarina Selbach-Koé, 1918-1998), Dutch freestyle swimmer of ADZ Amsterdam; won gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at the 1934 European Championships and the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting relay world records.
Jopie van Alphen
Jopie van Alphen, Dutch backstroke swimmer of the mid-1950s; swam lead-off on the Netherlands' 4×100 m medley relay world record (5:00.1, Paris, 17 July 1955) and won a 200 m backstroke race in 2:36.1.
Jopie Waalberg
Jopie Waalberg (Johanna Maria Elisabeth Waalberg, 1920-1979), Dutch breaststroke swimmer; 1936 Olympian, first woman under 3:00 for 200 m breaststroke (2:58.0, 1937), three-time world record holder, 1938 European bronze medalist.
Jordan Crooks
Jordan Crooks (born 2002), Caymanian sprint freestyle swimmer; first Cayman Islands world champion in any sport (2022 short course 50m free) and first man under 20 seconds in the SCM 50 free (19.90, 2024); NCAA 100-yard free record holder (39.83).
Jorg Hoffmann (olympedia 47836)
Jörg Hoffmann (born 1970, Schwedt/Oder), German freestyle swimmer; 1991 double world champion 400/1,500 m, world record 14:50.36, first under 15 minutes; Olympic 1,500 m bronze 1992; later Potsdam coach.
Jörg Woithe
Jörg Woithe (born 1963, East Berlin), East German freestyle swimmer for SC Dynamo Berlin; 1980 Olympic 100 m freestyle champion (50.40), 1982 world champion, 1987 European 50 m champion; later coach and lubricants executive.
Jose Carlos Souza
Jose Carlos Souza (José Carlos Ferreira Souza Junior), Brazilian swimmer born 1971 in São Paulo; 1992 Barcelona Olympian (6th, 4x100 m freestyle relay) and 1993 short-course 4x100 m freestyle relay world record holder and world champion.
Jose Sylvio Fiolo
Jose Sylvio Fiolo (born 1950, Campinas, Brazil), Brazilian breaststroke swimmer; set the 100 m breaststroke world record 1:06.4 in 1968 and competed at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Olympics; father of water polo player Pietro Figlioli.
Josef Csikany
József Csikány (born 1943, Budapest), Hungarian backstroke swimmer of Ferencvárosi TC; 1960 and 1964 Olympian, two European bronze medals, 16 national records, and founder of Hungarian masters swimming.
Josef Hladky
Josef Hladký (born 1962, Prague), Czech-born individual medley swimmer who defected to West Germany at the 1986 Madrid World Championships, won five long-course European medals for Czechoslovakia and West Germany, set a 54.66 short-course 100 m medley world record in 1991, and swam for Germany at Barcelona 1992.
Josefin Lillhage
Josefin Lillhage (Anna Josefin Lillhage, later Östblom, born 1980), Swedish freestyle swimmer; four Olympics 1996–2008, Sydney 2000 relay bronze, short course 4x200 m freestyle world record 7:51.70 in 1999, 43 international medals, retired 2010.
Joseph Bernardo
Jo Bernardo (Joseph Bernardo-Garcia-Rodriguez-Martinelli, 1929-2023), French freestyle swimmer; two Olympic relay bronzes (1948, 1952) and 1951 world record 8:33.0 in the 4x200 m freestyle relay.
Joseph Schooling
Joseph Schooling, Singapore's first and only Olympic gold medallist, won the 2016 Rio 100m butterfly in 50.39s, an Olympic record, beating Michael Phelps; retired from swimming on 2 April 2024.
Josephine Mckim
Josephine Eveline McKim (Chalmers), American freestyle swimmer (1910-1992): 1928 Olympic 400m freestyle bronze, 1932 relay gold in world record 4:38.0, six world records, and Maureen O'Sullivan's body double in Tarzan and His Mate.
Josette Arene
Josette Arene (Josette Andree Arene, born Delmas; 1924-2019), French swimmer of the 1940s-1950s; two-time Olympian (London 1948, Helsinki 1952), ten French titles, and 1954 world record in the 4x100 m medley relay.
Josh Davis
Josh Davis (Joshua Clark Davis, born 1972), American swimmer from San Antonio; won three relay golds at Atlanta 1996 and two relay silvers at Sydney 2000; later coach at Oklahoma Christian University. Distinct from other athletes named Josh Davis.
Jozsef Szabo
József Szabó (Szabó József), Hungarian breaststroke swimmer born 1969 in Budapest; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold in the 200 m breaststroke (2:13.52), 1986 world champion, pioneer of wave-action breaststroke, ISHOF inductee 2012.
Judit Temes
Judit Temes (Temes Judit, 1930–2013), Hungarian swimmer: Helsinki 1952 gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay (world record 4:24.4) and 100 m freestyle bronze; later pathologist and swimming administrator.