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Carrie Steinseifer
Carrie Steinseifer (born Carolyn Lynne Steinseifer), an American former competitive swimmer, won three gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, including one tied with Nancy Hogshead.
Carson Foster
Carson Foster, American swimmer (born 2001, Cincinnati), individual medley and freestyle specialist; Paris 2024 silver (4x200 free relay) and bronze (400 IM); short-course 4x200 free relay world record 6:40.51.
Carsten Dehmlow
Carsten Dehmlow (born 1977) is a German former sprint swimmer for SG Neukölln and SG Hamburg who won five European short-course relay titles (4x50 m freestyle and medley, 2001–2004) and set a 4x50 m medley relay world record at Antwerp 2001.
Cate Campbell
Cate Campbell (born 1992, Blantyre, Malawi) is a retired Australian sprint freestyle swimmer, four-time Olympian with 8 Olympic medals including 4 relay golds, 2013 world 100m champion, and 100m freestyle world record holder (52.06, 2016).
Catherine Calhoun
Catherine (Cathy) Calhoun, later Cridland, American freestyle swimmer; set the women's 1500 m freestyle world record, 17:19.20, aged 13 at Houston on 28 August 1971, and won 1971 Pan American Games 800 m freestyle gold.
Catherine Plewinski
Catherine Plewinski (Plewinski-Arie), born 1968 in Courrieres, France, is a former French swimmer, 100 m freestyle and butterfly specialist, with Olympic bronzes at Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992, world silvers at Perth 1991, and European titles at Bonn 1989, Athens 1991, and Sheffield 1993.
Cathy Carr
Cathy Carr (Catherine L. Carr-West), born 1954 in Albuquerque, American swimmer; double 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist in 100 m breaststroke (world record 1:13.58) and 4x100 medley relay; first New Mexico Olympic gold medalist.
Cathy Ferguson
Cathy Ferguson (Cathy Jane Ferguson, later Brennan), American swimmer born 1948 in Stockton, California; double gold medalist at Tokyo 1964 in the 100m backstroke and 4x100m medley relay, world record holder at both backstroke distances, not the wife of Alex Ferguson.
Catie Ball
Catie Ball (Catherine Northcutt Ball-Condon), American breaststroke swimmer born 1951 in Jacksonville, Florida; 1968 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100m medley relay who set 13 world records.
Cecil Healy
Cecil Patrick Healy (1881-1918), Australian crawl pioneer and swimmer, won 1912 Stockholm relay gold and 100m silver after insisting Duke Kahanamoku be allowed to swim; killed in action at Mont St Quentin.
Cesar Cielo
Cesar Cielo Filho, Brazilian sprint swimmer born 1987, first Brazilian Olympic swimming champion (50m free, Beijing 2008); held 50m free world record 20.91 from 2009 until McEvoy's 20.88 in 2026.
Chad Carvin
Chad Carvin (Chad Robb Carvin), American distance freestyle swimmer born 1974, 2000 Olympic 4x200 m relay silver medalist who overcame viral cardiomyopathy and a back injury, with short-course world record 7:01.33.
Chad le Clos
Chad le Clos, South African swimmer, 2012 Olympic 200m butterfly champion who beat Michael Phelps by 0.05s; record 21 Commonwealth Games medals, four Olympic medals, and 16 world titles.
Chantal Groot
Chantal Groot (born 1982, Amsterdam) is a Dutch former swimmer, butterfly and freestyle relay specialist; three Olympics (2000, 2004, 2008), two Olympic relay medals, and the 2006 short-course 4x100 m freestyle relay world record.
Chao Na
Chao Na (晁娜), born 1980 in Beijing, Chinese freestyle sprint swimmer; 1996 Atlanta Olympic silver medalist in the 4×100 m freestyle relay and 1997 short-course world record holder (3:34.55).
Charles Devendeville
Charles Devendeville (Charles Désiré Devendeville, 1882–1914), French swimmer of Tritons Lillois who won gold in underwater swimming at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the event's only appearance, and was killed in action at Reims in World War I.
Charlie Hickcox
Charlie Hickcox (Charles Buchanan Hickcox, 1947-2010), American swimmer who won three golds and a silver at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in the 200 and 400 m individual medleys, medley relay, and 100 m backstroke, setting eight world records.
Charlie Houchin
Charlie Houchin (Charles Houchin), American freestyle swimmer born 1987 in Lake Forest, Illinois; 2012 Olympic gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay prelims, 2013 world relay gold, 2011 Pan Am double gold, later founded HydroXphere and Swimmingly.
Charlotte Boyle
Charlotte Duggan Boyle (Clune), 1899-1990, American swimmer of the New York Women's Swimming Association; 1920 Antwerp Olympian in the 100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle world record holder in 1921, and ISHOF Honor Pioneer Swimmer.
Chase Kalisz
Chase Kalisz (born 1994) is an American individual medley swimmer, three-time Olympian, Tokyo 2020 400m IM gold medalist (4:09.42), Rio 2016 silver medalist, and 2017 world champion in both the 200m and 400m IM.
Chelsea Hodges
Chelsea Hodges, Australian breaststroke swimmer born 2001, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist in the 4x100m medley relay, 2022 Commonwealth Games gold and double bronze, short course 4x50m medley relay world record holder, retired May 2024.
Chen Hua
Chen Hua (陈桦, born 1982) is a Chinese former long-distance freestyle swimmer from Hangzhou who set a short-course world record in the 800 m freestyle.
Chen Huijia
Chen Huijia (陈慧佳, born 1990, Wenzhou) is a Chinese breaststroke swimmer who won the 2009 Rome World Championships 4x100 m medley relay in world-record 3:52.19 and took 2010 Asian Games relay gold.
Cheryl Gibson
Cheryl Gibson (Cheryl Ann Gibson-Brokop), born 1959 in Edmonton, is a Canadian swimmer who won silver in the 400 m individual medley at Montreal 1976 in 4:48.10, a world-record time behind doped East German Ulrike Tauber; later a lawyer and Swimming Canada president.
Chet Jastremski
Chet Jastremski (1941–2014) was an American breaststroke swimmer from Toledo, Ohio who set nine world records and won 200-meter breaststroke bronze at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Chi Lieh Yung
Chi Lieh Yung (戚烈雲), born 1934, Hong Kong-born Chinese breaststroke swimmer who set the men's 100 m breaststroke world record at 1:11.6 on May 1, 1957, the first FINA-recognized Chinese swimming world record; ISHOF Pioneer Swimmer 2013.
Chris Cavanaugh
Chris Cavanaugh (Christopher Carl Cavanaugh, born 1962) is an American sprint swimmer who won 4x100 m freestyle relay gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in world record 3:19.03, plus 1982 Worlds and 1983 Pan Am relay golds; boycotted Moscow 1980.
Chris Fydler
Chris Fydler (Christopher John Fydler, born 1972, Sydney) is an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer and Swimming Australia president who won Sydney 2000 Olympic gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay, breaking the US streak with a 3:13.67 world record.
Chris Guiliano
Chris Guiliano (born 2003) is an American freestyle swimmer from Douglassville, Pennsylvania; Paris 2024 4x100m free relay gold medalist, first US man since Biondi 1988 to make the Olympics in the 50, 100, and 200 free; Notre Dame, then Texas.
Chris Jacobs
Chris Jacobs (Christopher Charles Jacobs, born 1964) is an American former freestyle sprint swimmer who won two relay golds and a 100m freestyle silver at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, both relays in world record time, after recovering from addiction.