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Klenie Bimolt
Klenie Bimolt (Klena Geertje Bimolt, born 1945) is a Dutch breaststroke swimmer, 1964 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay and 1962 European silver medalist, who also competed at Mexico 1968.
Klete Keller
Klete Keller, also Klete Derik Keller, American freestyle swimmer born 1982 in Las Vegas; two Olympic relay golds (2004, 2008) among five medals, later convicted for the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot and pardoned by Trump in 2025.
Kliment Kolesnikov
Kliment Kolesnikov (Климент Колесников), Russian backstroke swimmer born 2000 in Moscow; world record holder 50 m backstroke 23.55, six-time 2018 Youth Olympic champion, Tokyo 2020 silver and bronze, 2025 world champion as a neutral athlete.
Kornelia Ender
Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer (born 1958, Plauen), won 8 Olympic medals including 4 golds at Montreal 1976, all in world-record time, and set 23 individual world records; later admitted state doping.
Kornelia Gressler
Kornelia Gressler (Greßler), born 1970, East German butterfly swimmer; 1986 World champion 100m butterfly (59.51) and medley relay gold, 1985 European 100m butterfly champion; not Kornelia Ender.
Kosuke Hagino
Kosuke Hagino (萩野 公介) is a retired Japanese swimmer who won four Olympic medals, including 2016 400 m individual medley gold in an Asian record 4:06.05.
Kosuke Kitajima
Kosuke Kitajima (北島 康介) is a Japanese former breaststroke swimmer who won both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, a consecutive-Games sweep no one else has matched.
Kristin Otto
Kristin Otto is a German former swimmer who won six gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a record for a woman at a single Games.
Kristin Topham
Kristin Louise Topham, Canadian swimmer born 1973 in Edmonton, Etobicoke Swim Club; two-time Olympian (1988, 1992) and four-medallist at the 1991 Havana Pan American Games, with two golds.
Kristine Quance
Kristine Quance (Quance-Julian), born 1975 in Northridge, California, American swimmer; 1996 Olympic gold in 4x100 m medley relay heats, nine-time NCAA champion at USC, later Rose Bowl Aquatics and UCLA coach.
Kristy Kowal
Kristy Kowal (Kristina Ann Kowal, born 1978, Reading, Pennsylvania), American breaststroke swimmer; 2000 Sydney Olympic silver medalist in the 200m breaststroke, 1998 world champion in the 100m breaststroke and medley relay, later a Pennsylvania elementary school teacher.
Krisztina Egerszegi
Krisztina Egerszegi (Egerszegi Krisztina), Hungarian backstroke swimmer born 1974 in Budapest, won five individual Olympic golds (1988, 1992, 1996), three straight 200 m backstroke titles, and set 100/200 m backstroke world records in 1991.
Kurt Bretting
Kurt Bretting (Kurt Fritz Albert Bretting), German freestyle swimmer of SC Hellas Magdeburg; 100 m freestyle world record 1:02.4 (1912), fourth at Stockholm 1912, killed in action 1918.
Kurt Grote
Kurt Grote (Kurt David Grote, born 1973), American breaststroke swimmer; 1996 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay, 1998 world champion in the 200 m breaststroke, Stanford swimmer later a physician and McKinsey consultant.
Kurt von Eckenbrecher
Kurt von Eckenbrecher (born 5 February 1917 in Neuruppin) was a German freestyle swimmer and SS sports officer who after the war edited Germany's first diving magazine, Delphin.
Kuzuo Kitamura
Kuzuo Kitamura (北村久寿雄, also Kusuo Kitamura), Japanese swimmer who won the 1932 Olympic 1,500 m freestyle at 14 years 309 days, still the youngest male individual Olympic gold medalist.
Kyle Chalmers
Kyle Chalmers (born 1998), Australian swimmer, Rio 2016 Olympic 100m freestyle champion (47.58) and Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 silver medallist; 2023 world champion; Australia's most decorated male Commonwealth Games swimmer.
Kyle Stolk
Kyle Stolk (born 1996, Edenvale, South Africa) is a Dutch freestyle and medley swimmer; 2014 Youth Olympic silver medalist 200 m free, 2016 Olympian, world record holder mixed 4x50 m free relay (2017), retired 2021.
Kylie Masse
Kylie Masse (born 1996, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian backstroke swimmer, five-time Olympic medallist and three-time world champion who set the 100 m backstroke world record of 58.10 in 2017.
Kyoko Iwasaki
Kyoko Iwasaki (岩崎恭子), born 1978 in Numazu, Japan, is a Japanese former swimmer who won the 1992 Barcelona 200 m breaststroke gold at age 14.
Lacey Nymeyer
Lacey Nymeyer (Lacey Pearl Nymeyer-John), American swimmer born 1985 in Tucson, Arizona; 2008 Olympic silver medalist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay, 2007 world-record 4x200 m freestyle relay, and 2009 NCAA Woman of the Year at the University of Arizona.
Lani Pallister
Lani Pallister, Australian distance freestyle swimmer born 2002 in Kogarah, NSW; Paris 2024 4x200m relay Olympic champion, short course 800m world record holder (7:54.00), and first swimmer to beat Katie Ledecky over 800m internationally.
Lara Davenport
Lara Shiree Davenport (born 1983, Sydney) is an Australian swimmer and OAM recipient who won gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay as a heats swimmer at Beijing 2008, in world record time.
Lary Schulhof
Larry (Lary Alan) Schulhof, born 1942 in Muncie, Indiana, is an American butterfly swimmer and neurosurgeon; he won gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Tokyo 1964 and set a 1961 medley relay world record.
Laszlo Cseh
Laszlo Cseh (László Cseh), Hungarian swimmer born 1985 in Budapest, individual medley and butterfly specialist; six Olympic medals without gold, all behind Michael Phelps, two world titles (2005, 2015), and 14 European Championships golds.
Laszlo Szabados
Laszlo Szabados, a Hungarian freestyle swimmer from Subotica, specialized in relays. He won a European title in 1931 and an Olympic bronze in 1932.
Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou, French swimmer (born 1986, Villeurbanne), 2004 Athens Olympic champion in the 400 m freestyle, first Frenchwoman to win Olympic swimming gold; also world record holder and three-time world champion.
Lauren Boyle
Lauren Boyle (Lauren Marie Boyle), New Zealand distance freestyle swimmer, born 1987 in Auckland; three-time Olympian, 2012 short-course 800 m world champion, five long-course World Championship medals, and 2014 Commonwealth 400 m freestyle gold; retired 2017.
Lauren Perdue
Lauren Perdue (Lauren Perdue Britt), American swimmer born 1991 in Charlottesville, raised in Greenville, N.C.; 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200m freestyle relay and 17-time ACC champion for the University of Virginia.
Lauren Steadman
Lauren Steadman (born 1992), British PTS5 para triathlete and former S9 swimmer from Peterborough. Five Paralympics: swimming at Beijing 2008 and London 2012; triathlon silver Rio 2016, gold Tokyo 2020, bronze Paris 2024; three-time world champion, MBE 2022.