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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.
Charlie Kieffer
Charlie Kieffer (Charles Mathias Kieffer, 1910-1975), American rower of Pennsylvania Barge Club, Philadelphia; Olympic gold in men's coxed pairs with Joe Schauers and cox Ed Jennings at the 1932 Los Angeles Games in 8:25.8.
Charlie Logg
Charlie Logg (Charles Paul Logg Jr., born 24 February 1931, Princeton, NJ), American rower; with Tom Price won 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold in coxless pairs for Rutgers, 8:20.70, "The Cinderella Kids".
Charline Picon
Charline Picon, French windsurfer and sailor (born 1984, Royan), Olympic RS:X gold Rio 2016, silver Tokyo 2020, 49er FX bronze Paris 2024 with Sarah Steyaert; retired 2025.
Charlot
Charlot: name of two French Olympians. A rower listed only as Charlot won gold in the 1900 coxed fours for Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix; Émmanuel Charlot (born 1966, Montbéliard) played water polo for France, 11th at Barcelona 1992.
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 Aisen
Chen Aisen (陈艾森), Chinese diver born 1995 in Guangzhou, double 2016 Olympic 10m platform champion (individual and synchronized with Lin Yue), 2020 silver with Cao Yuan, three-time world synchro champion.
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.
Chen Yiwen
Chen Yiwen (陈艺文), born 1999 in Haikou, Hainan, is a Chinese diver and Paris 2024 double Olympic champion in women's 3m springboard and 3m synchronised, with nine world championship golds and multiple Diving World Cup titles.
Chen Yunxia
Chen Yunxia (陈云霞), born 1995, Chinese rower; Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold in women's quadruple sculls (6:05.13) with Zhang Ling, Lyu Yang, Cui Xiaotong; 2019 and 2022 world champion; now in double sculls.
Chen Yuxi (陈芋汐)
Chen Yuxi (陈芋汐), born 2005 in Shanghai, is a Chinese 10m platform diver: two-time Olympic synchro champion (Tokyo with Zhang Jiaqi, Paris with Quan Hongchan), four-time world platform champion, 42 total AQUA and Olympic medals.
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.
Chick Stoddard
Chick Stoddard (Laurence Ralph Stoddard, 1903–1997), American rowing coxswain of the Yale eight that won gold in the men's eights at the 1924 Paris Olympics; later in shipping. Not the speed skater Corinne Stoddard.
Chira Apostol
Chira Apostol (Chira Irina Apostol-Stoian), Romanian rower born 1960 in Alexeni; Olympic gold 1984 Los Angeles women's coxed four (3:19.30) and world champion 1986 Nottingham; her only Olympics.
Chris Ahrens
Chris Ahrens (Christian Ahrens), born 1976 in Iowa City, Iowa, is an American rower who won gold in the 2004 Olympic men's eight and four world titles.
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.
Chris Renaud
Chris Renaud (Christopher Renaud), Canadian backstroke swimmer born 1976 in Fredericton, New Brunswick; competed at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 Olympics and held the short-course 50 m backstroke world record (24.25) from 1997 to 1998.
Chris Timms
Chris Timms (Christopher Ian Timms, 1947–2004) was a New Zealand sailor who won Tornado gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and silver at Seoul 1988 with helmsman Rex Sellers.
Chris von Saltza
Chris von Saltza (Susan Christina von Saltza, later Olmstead), American swimmer born 1944, won three golds and a silver at the 1960 Rome Olympics, set world records in the 400 freestyle and 200 backstroke, and won five 1959 Pan Am golds.
Chris Woo
Chris Woo (Christopher W. T. Woo, born 1957, Honolulu) is an American breaststroke swimmer and dentist; at the 1976 Montreal Olympics he placed 8th in the 100 m breaststroke and helped set a 3:47.28 medley relay world record.
Christel Schulz
Christel Schulz: German swimmer born 1940 (née Steffin), 1960 Olympic relay bronze, record-setting Masters swimmer from Rathenow; also the 1921–2014 long jumper who first cleared six meters in 1939.
Christen Wiese
Christen Knagenhjelm Wiese (1876–1968), Norwegian sailor from Bergen's Bergens Seilforening; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 12 metre class (1919 rating) as crew of Heira II; later a coal-trade general manager.