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Yannick Agnel
Yannick Agnel (born 1992 in Nîmes, France) is a French former swimmer who won two Olympic gold medals at the 2012 London Games and the 200-meter world title in 2013.
Yanvei Xu
Yanvei Xu (born 1984) is a Chinese freestyle swimmer who set the short-course 4x200 m freestyle world record (7:46.30, Moscow 2002) as lead-off and won 100 m and 200 m freestyle bronze at the 2002 short-course worlds.
Yasuji Miyazaki
Yasuji Miyazaki (宮崎 康二), Japanese swimmer, 1932 Los Angeles Olympic champion in the 100 m freestyle at 15 years 311 days and in the 4x200 m relay with a world record 8:58.4.
Ye Shiwen
Ye Shiwen (叶诗文), Chinese swimmer born 1996, won 200 m and 400 m individual medley gold at London 2012 with a 4:28.43 world record, was cleared of doping suspicions, and competed through Paris 2024.
Yelena Volkova
Yelena Volkova (Волкова Елена) names several Soviet and Russian athletes, chiefly a breaststroke swimmer born 1968, 1991 world champion, and a volleyball player born 1960, 1988 Olympic champion.
Yevgeny Korotyshkin
Yevgeny Korotyshkin (Евгений Коротышкин), born 1983, Russian butterfly swimmer; Olympic 100 m butterfly silver at London 2012 behind Phelps; six short-course world records; retired 2014.
Yevgeny Lagunov
Yevgeny Lagunov (born 1985) is a Russian former freestyle swimmer who competed at three Olympics, winning relay silver at Beijing 2008 and bronze at London 2012.
Yevgeny Rylov
Yevgeny Rylov (Евгений Рылов), Russian backstroke swimmer born 1996, double Olympic champion at Tokyo 2020 (100m and 200m backstroke), 2017 and 2019 world champion, suspended nine months by FINA in 2022.
Yevgeny Sadovy
Yevgeny Sadovy (Евгений Викторович Садовый, born 1973), Russian swimmer for the Unified Team; three 1992 Barcelona golds (200, 400, 4×200 free), world records 3:45.00 and 7:11.95; later a coach.
Yin Nian
Yin Nian, Chinese swimmer (CHN) of the 1990s; won silver in the 200 m freestyle (1:56.24) and gold in the 4x100 m (3:34.55 WR) and 4x200 m (7:51.92 WR) freestyle relays at the 1997 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Gothenburg.
Yolane Kukla
Yolane Kukla, Australian sprint swimmer from Brisbane (St. Peters Western club), Olympic gold medallist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at London 2012 and 2010 Commonwealth Games 50 m freestyle champion.
Yoris Grandjean
Yoris Grandjean (born 1989, Liège) is a Belgian former sprint swimmer, 2008 Olympian, junior world champion, and European relay bronze medalist, now Florent Manaudou's physical trainer at CN Antibes.
Yoshi Oyakawa
Yoshi Oyakawa, full name Yoshinobu Oyakawa, is an American swimmer born in Hawaii in 1933 who won 100-meter backstroke gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi (浜口喜博) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer who won a silver medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and later directed the national team.
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (鶴田義行), Japanese breaststroke swimmer (1903–1986); won the 200 m breaststroke at Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932, first Japanese swimming gold medalist and first man to retain a breaststroke title.
Yu Hexin
Yu Hexin (余贺新), Chinese sprint freestyle swimmer born 1996 in Guangzhou; four-time 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic gold medalist, two-time Asian Games champion, and Chinese record holder in the 50 m freestyle (21.68).
Yui Ohashi
Yui Ohashi (大橋悠依), Japanese swimmer born 1995 in Hikone, Shiga; double Olympic champion in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley at Tokyo 2020, first Japanese woman with two golds at one Summer Games; retired October 2024.
Yukiaki Okabe
Yukiaki Okabe (岡部•幸明), Japanese freestyle swimmer, 1941–2018; Waseda University. Won bronze in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at Tokyo 1964 and held the 1963 long-course world record (8:09.8).
Yuko Nakanishi
Yuko Nakanishi (中西 悠子), born 1981 in Ikeda, Osaka, is a Japanese swimmer specializing in the 200 m butterfly: 2004 Athens Olympic bronze, three Olympics, and a short-course 200 fly world record of 2:03.12 (2008-2009).
Yuliya Efimova
Yuliya Efimova (Юлия Ефимова), Russian breaststroke swimmer born 1992 in Grozny; three-time Olympic medalist, six-time world champion, former 50 m breaststroke world record holder; distinct from the 2009-born junior swimmer and figure skater Alisa Efimova.
Yury Mukhin
Yury Mukhin (Юрий Мухин, born 1971) is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer who won Olympic gold as a heat swimmer in the 1992 Unified Team 4×200 m relay.
Yusra Mardini (يسرى مرديني)
Yusra Mardini (يسرى مرديني), born 1998 in Damascus, is a Syrian swimmer who pushed a sinking refugee dinghy across the Aegean in 2015, then competed for the Refugee Olympic Team at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 and became UNHCR's youngest Goodwill Ambassador.
Zac Stubblety Cook
Zac Stubblety-Cook (Izaac Keith Stubblety-Cook, born 1999) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer, Tokyo 2020 Olympic 200m breaststroke champion, former world record-holder (2:05.95), and 2022 world and Commonwealth champion.
Zac Zorn
Zac Zorn (Zachary Zorn), American swimmer born 1947 in Dayton, Ohio; 1968 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay and 100 m freestyle world record holder (52.6, 1968 US Trials), NCAA champion for UCLA.
Zach Apple
Zach Apple (Zachary Douglas Apple), American sprint freestyle swimmer born 1997 in Trenton, Ohio; two-time Olympic gold medalist at Tokyo 2020 in the 4x100 freestyle and medley relays, setting the 3:26.78 medley relay world record.
Zhang Yifan
Zhang Yifan (张一璠), Chinese swimmer born 2000 in Baoding, Hebei; won gold in the women's 4x200 m freestyle relay at Tokyo 2020, swimming the heats; specialist in the 200 m butterfly.
Zhang Yufei
Zhang Yufei (张雨霏), born 1998, Chinese swimmer; double Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion (200m butterfly OR, 4x200 free relay WR) and six-medalist at Paris 2024; cleared 2020 TMZ doping case.
Zhao Jing
Zhao Jing (赵菁), Chinese backstroke swimmer born 1990 in Wuhan; 2008 Olympic medley relay bronze, 50 m backstroke world record 27.06 (Rome 2009), three short course world records, and world titles in 2009, 2011, and 2013.
Zhou Guanbin
Zhou Guanbin (周官彬, born 1975) is a Chinese freestyle swimmer, 1994 world champion in the 4x200m relay and 1994 Asian Games 400m freestyle winner, later banned two years for dehydrotestosterone.
Zhu Qianwei
Zhu Qianwei (朱倩蔚), Chinese freestyle swimmer born 1990 in Shanghai; 2008 Olympic silver in 4x200 m freestyle relay, world records in that event long course (7:42.08, 2009) and short course (7:35.94, 2010).