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Adelaide Lambert
Adelaide Temperance Lambert (1907-1996), American swimmer of the Women's Swimming Association of New York; 1928 Olympic gold medalist and world record lead-off swimmer in the women's 4x100 m freestyle relay, and seven-time AAU champion.
Adi Kainz
Adi Kainz (Adolf Kainz, 1903-1948), Austrian sprint canoeist; Olympic gold in K2 1,000 m with Alfons Dorfner at Berlin 1936 (4:03.8), fourth in FK2 10,000 m, and 1938 Vaxholm world bronze for Germany.
Adolph Kiefer
Adolph Kiefer was an American backstroke swimmer who won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and became the first person to swim 100 yards backstroke in under a minute.
Adrian Ellison
Adrian Ellison (Adrian Charles Ellison), born 1958 in Solihull, England, is a British rowing coxswain who steered Redgrave's coxed four to 1984 Olympic gold, Britain's first rowing title since 1948, and later coxed the 1992 eight.
Adrian Moorhouse
Adrian Moorhouse MBE (born 1964, Bradford) is an English swimmer, 1988 Seoul Olympic 100m breaststroke champion (1:02.04) and 1989 world record holder (1:01.49), first man under a minute in short course.
Adrian Radley
Adrian Radley, Australian backstroke swimmer; world-record 4x100m medley relay (3:30.66, 1997 short-course worlds, Gothenburg) and 1998 Commonwealth Games 200m backstroke silver; later KPMG Perth partner.
Adriana Ailincai
Adriana Ailincăi-Adam (Adriana Adam), Romanian rower born 1999 in Văleni, Vaslui. Olympic champion in the women's eight at Paris 2024; three-time 2026 world champion in pair, eight, and mixed eight.
Adrie Lasterie
Adrie Lasterie (Aartje Elisabeth Lasterie, 1943-1991), Dutch swimmer for ZV Naarden; triple gold medalist at the 1962 Leipzig European Championships and 1964 Olympic medley relay silver medalist.
Adrien Hardy
Adrien Hardy (born 1978, Nîmes) is a French rower, 2004 Olympic champion in the men's double sculls with Sébastien Vieilledent, France's first gold in that event; also world champion 2003 and 2006 and European champion 2008 in the eight, at four Games 2000-2012.
African swimming championships
African Swimming Championships, the biennial continental swimming meet of Africa run by CANA/Africa Aquatics since 1974 (first edition Cairo); 2014 and 2020 editions cancelled by Ebola and COVID-19; 17th edition Oran, Algeria, May 2026.
Agafia Orlov Buhaev Constantin
Agafia Orlov Buhaev Constantin (born 1955, Mila 23, Romania), Romanian sprint kayaker; competed at 1976, 1980, 1984 Olympics under three names; K2 500 m fourth each time; K4 500 m gold at Los Angeles 1984.
Agnes Geraghty
Agnes Geraghty (Agnes McAndrews), American breaststroke swimmer of the Women's Swimming Association, New York; 1924 Olympic silver medalist in the 200 m breaststroke (3:34.0) behind Lucy Morton, 1928 Olympian, and world breaststroke record holder.
Agnes Kovacs
Ágnes Kovács (Kovács Ágnes), Hungarian breaststroke swimmer born 1981: 2000 Sydney Olympic champion in the 200 m breaststroke, 1996 bronze medalist, two-time world champion, seven-time European champion, retired 2008.
Agnes Water Surf Life Saving Club
Agnes Water SLSC, a volunteer surf lifesaving club at Agnes Water, Queensland, established 1989; SLSQ lifeguards patrol the main beach, with 231 members including 119 Nippers in 2024-25.
Agonda Surf School
Agonda Surf School: surf schools on Agonda Beach, South Goa, led by Aloha Surf India (founded 2014 by pioneer surfer Velu), teaching on Goa's most consistent South Goa beach break, 2–5 ft waves, October–May season.
Agostino Abbagnale
Agostino Abbagnale, Italian rower (born 1966, Pompei), brother of Giuseppe and Carmine Abbagnale; won three Olympic rowing golds (quadruple sculls 1988 and 2000, double sculls 1996) despite thrombophlebitis, plus 2006 Thomas Keller Medal.
Agostino Straulino
Agostino Straulino (1914–2004) was an Italian admiral and competitive sailor who won Olympic gold in the Star class at Helsinki in 1952 and took three world championships.
Ahmed Akram
Ahmed Akram (Ahmed AKARAM, أحمد أكرم), Egyptian swimmer born 1996 in Cairo; Youth Olympic 800 m freestyle gold 2014 and fourth in the 1,500 m freestyle at the 2015 World Championships.
Aileen Riggin
Aileen Riggin (Aileen Riggin Soule, 1906-2002), American diver and swimmer; first Olympic women's springboard champion, Antwerp 1920, at 14 years 119 days; 1924 silver and backstroke bronze.
Aimilia Tsoulfa
Aimilia Tsoulfa (Αιμιλία Τσούλφα), born 1973, Greek 470-class sailor, Piraeus Sailing Club; Olympic gold at Athens 2004 with Sofia Bekatorou after four straight world titles; competed 1996–2020.
Ajna Kesely
Ajna Kesely (Késely Ajna), Hungarian freestyle swimmer born 2001 in Budapest; three-time Olympian, 2018 Youth Olympic triple gold medalist, 2024 European champion in 400 and 800 m freestyle, Hungarian record holder.
AK Kite Surf Center
AK Kite Surf Center is a surf school and sports venue in Phan Thiet, Lam Dong, Vietnam, near Mui Ne (10.94862 N, 108.20703 E). Mapped as an OSM surfing sports centre and indexed as a beginner A-frame beach break with NE monsoon swell.
Ake Bergqvist
Åke Bergqvist (1900–1975), Swedish Olympic sailor, won gold in the Three-Person Keelboat 6 metre class at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics aboard Bissbi with Tore Holm, Martin Hindorff, and Olle Åkerlund; distinct from Erik and Jonas Bergqvist.
Akihiro Yamaguchi
Akihiro Yamaguchi (山口観弘), born 1994, Japanese breaststroke swimmer; set the 200m breaststroke world record of 2:07.01 in September 2012 at age 18, breaking Daniel Gyurta's Olympic mark, and held it over four years without ever reaching an Olympics.
Akos Vereckei
Akos Vereckei (Vereckei Ákos), Hungarian sprint kayaker born 1977 in Budapest; two-time Olympic K-4 1000 m champion (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004), six-time world champion, later coach in Vietnam, China, and Serbia.
Al Lindley
Al Lindley (Alfred Damon Lindley, 1904-1951), American rower and lawyer; stroked the Yale eight to 1924 Paris Olympic gold in the men's eights; also a mountaineer on Denali and 1936 Olympic skiing entrant who did not compete; died in a plane crash.
Al Nasse
Al Nasse (Albert F. Nasse, 1878–1910), American rower from St. Louis; won 1904 Olympic gold in men's coxless fours with the Century Boat Club crew in 9:05.8.
Al White
Al White (Albert Cosad White, 1895-1982), American Stanford diver, first Olympic double diving champion, winning 3m springboard and 10m platform gold at Paris 1924; undefeated on 1m lowboard, 10 AAU titles, ISHOF honoree.
Alaia Bay
Alaia Bay is an artificial surfing lagoon in Sion, in the Swiss canton of Valais, opened in 2021 as the first commercial, surf-focused wave pool in mainland Europe.
Alain Bernard
Alain Bernard (born 1983, Aubagne) is a French freestyle sprint swimmer, double Olympic champion: 100 m freestyle gold at Beijing 2008 and 4x100 m relay gold at London 2012; multiple 100 m and 50 m world record holder.