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Craig Oppel
Craig Oppel (Richard Craig Oppel, born 1967, Keflavik, Iceland) is an American former swimmer, 1988 Seoul Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay heats, UCLA All-American, and later an Iowa family-law attorney.
Crazy Left
Crazy Left is a fast, tubular left-hand reef pointbreak at Praia Pedra Branca, Ericeira, Portugal, within the Ericeira World Surfing Reserve; best on N/NW swells, SE-NE winds, for experienced surfers only.
Cristian Toro
Cristian Toro (Cristian Isaac Toro Carballo), Spanish canoe sprint kayaker born 1992 in Venezuela, Olympic K2 200 m gold with Saúl Craviotto at Rio 2016, four world silvers, retired January 2024, later Vox sports spokesperson.
Cristina Teuscher
Cristina Teuscher (born 1978), also Cristina Teuscher Fabbri, American swimmer from New Rochelle, NY; 1996 Olympic gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, 2000 bronze in the 200 m IM, undefeated Columbia collegiate career, 2000 Honda-Broderick Cup winner.
Csaba Horvath
Csaba Horváth (born 1971, Budapest) is a Hungarian canoe sprint paddler; with György Kolonics he won C2 500 m gold and C2 1000 m bronze at Atlanta 1996 and 12 world titles. Not the high jumper, chess player, or footballer of the same name.
Cui Xiaotong
Cui Xiaotong (崔晓桐), Chinese rower born 1994 in Dandong, Liaoning; stroke of the women's quadruple sculls. Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 in a World Best Time 6:05.13, world titles 2019 and 2022, sixth at Paris 2024.
Cullen Jones
Cullen Jones (born 1984, Bronx, New York), American sprint freestyle swimmer, 2008 and 2012 Olympian with 2 gold and 2 silver medals, holder of the 4x100 m freestyle relay world record 3:08.24, and water-safety advocate.
Currumbin Alley
Currumbin Alley, or The Alley, is a right-hand rivermouth point surf break at Currumbin Creek entrance on Queensland's Gold Coast, part of the Gold Coast World Surfing Reserve, with three sections and shared boat-and-surfer bar-crossing safety issues.
Currumbin Alley Surf School
Currumbin Alley Surf School is a licensed surf school based at Currumbin Alley on Queensland's Gold Coast, Australia, which says it has taught surfers of all ages and abilities year-round since 1993.
Curtis McGrath
Curtis McGrath (born 1988, Dunedin, New Zealand) is an Australian Paracanoeist and former Army combat engineer who lost both legs to an IED in Afghanistan in 2012, then won four Paralympic golds (KL2 at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024; VL3 Tokyo) and 13 world titles.
Cynthia Goyette
Cynthia Goyette (Cynthia Lee Goyette, born 1946, Detroit) is an American breaststroke swimmer who won 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold in the 4x100 m medley relay with a 4:33.9 world record, and won five AAU indoor and four intercollegiate breaststroke titles.
Cyril Wright
Cyril Macey Wright (1885–1960), British sailor and naval architect of the Royal Burnham Yacht Club; helmsman and co-owner of Ancora, gold medalist in the 7-metre class at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, racing with his wife Dorothy Wright.
Daan Kagchelland
Daan Kagchelland (Daniël Marinus Johannes Kagchelland, 1914-1998), Dutch sailor, won gold in the O-Jolle single-handed dinghy at the 1936 Berlin Olympics at Kiel, sailing the Nürnberg with 163 points.
Dagmar Hase
Dagmar Hase (born 1969, Quedlinburg/Thale) is a German swimmer, 1992 Olympic 400m freestyle champion with seven Olympic medals, ISHOF inductee 2013, later implicated in GDR doping records she denies.
Dai Jun
Dai Jun (戴骏), Chinese freestyle swimmer born 1992 in Shanghai; 2010 Youth Olympic 400 m freestyle champion, 2010 Asian Games relay gold, and 2012 London Olympic bronze in the 4x200 m freestyle relay.
Daichi Suzuki
Daichi Suzuki (鈴木 大地), born 1967, Japanese backstroke swimmer who won 100 m backstroke gold at Seoul 1988 in 55.05 with underwater dolphin kicks, forcing the 10m-then-15m surfacing rule; later Japan Swimming Federation president and 2022 ISHOF honoree.
Dan Ayrault
Dan Ayrault (Arthur DeLancey Ayrault, Jr., 1935-1990), American rower, won Olympic gold in the coxed pair at Melbourne 1956 and the coxless four at Rome 1960; later a Seattle educator.
Dan Beery
Dan Beery (Daniel Beery, born 1975) is an American rower from Oaktown, Indiana, who won Olympic gold in the men's eight at Athens 2004 and three World Championship titles (2003, 2005, 2007).
Dan Jorgensen
Dan Jorgensen (Daniel Ploug Jorgensen, born 1968, New London, Connecticut), American distance freestyle swimmer; 1988 Olympic 4x200m relay gold and 1992 bronze, 1986 400m free American record 3:49.41, later VP of sales at S.R. Smith.
Dan Ketchum
Dan Ketchum (Daniel Ketchum, born 1981, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American swimmer who won Olympic gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at Athens 2004 and swam for the University of Michigan, winning three Big Ten 200-yard freestyle titles.
Dan Sherry
Dan Sherry (Daniel John Sherry, born 1946), Canadian swimmer for the North York Lions Club; eighth in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic 200 m butterfly, two 1963 Pan Am bronzes, 1965 110-yard butterfly world record. Same name: 1986 Commonwealth Games boxing champion.
Dan Williamson
Dan Williamson (Daniel Hunter Williamson, born 2000, Auckland) is a New Zealand rower, Olympic gold medallist in the men's eight at Tokyo 2020, seventh in the pair at Paris 2024, and later a Yale assistant coach.
Dana Vollmer
Dana Vollmer (Dana Whitney Vollmer Grant), American swimmer born 1987 in Syracuse, New York; three-time Olympian with 7 Olympic medals (5 gold) and 100m butterfly world record 55.98 at London 2012; retired 2019, ISHOF 2024.
Daniel Ballart
Daniel Ballart (Daniel Ballart Sans, born 1973, Barcelona), Spanish water polo player and coach; Olympic gold 1996 and silver 1992, two-time world champion (1998, 2001), later coach of CN Mataró's women's team.
Daniel Gyurta
Dániel Gyurta (Gyurta Dániel), Hungarian swimmer born 1989, 200m breaststroke specialist; Olympic gold London 2012 in world-record 2:07.28, silver Athens 2004, world champion 2009–2013, ISHOF 2024.
Daniel Kowalski
Daniel Kowalski, Australian distance freestyle swimmer born 1975 in Singapore; four-time Olympic medallist (silver 1500m, bronze 200m and 400m at Atlanta 1996, relay gold Sydney 2000), 1998 relay world record holder, retired 2002, now AOC Head of Olympian Services.
Daniel Varga
Dániel Varga (Varga Dániel), Hungarian water polo player born 1983 in Budapest; 2008 Olympic champion, 2013 world champion, 308 caps, brother of Dénes Varga; retired 2018 to coach Ferencváros youth.
Daniela Gotz
Daniela Götz (born 1987, Nürnberg) is a German freestyle sprint swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay at Athens 2004, and member of Germany's 4x100 m freestyle relay world-record team (3:35.22, Budapest 2006).
Daniela Hunger
Daniela Hunger (born 1972, East Berlin), German swimmer of SC Dynamo Berlin; 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the 200 m IM and 4×100 m freestyle relay for East Germany, three medals for Germany in 1992, later named in GDR doping revelations, which she denied.
Daniela Neunast
Daniela Neunast (born 1966, Potsdam) is a German rowing coxswain; Olympic gold in the women's eights for East Germany at Seoul 1988, bronze for Germany at Barcelona 1992, eighth at Atlanta 1996, plus four World Championship medals.