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Dmitry Volkov
Dmitry Volkov (Дмитрий Аркадьевич Волков), Soviet breaststroke swimmer, 1966-2025; three Olympic medals (two bronze Seoul 1988, silver Barcelona 1992) and 1990 short course 100 m breaststroke world record 59.30.
Doina Ignat
Doina Ignat, born 1968 in Romania, is a rower who competed at five Olympic Games, winning four golds, one silver, and one bronze, mostly in the women's eight.
Doina Spircu
Doina Spircu (Doina Tudora Spircu-Craciun), Romanian rower born 1970 in Slobozia; Olympic gold in the women's eights at Atlanta 1996 and world champion in the eights in 1999.
Domenico Fioravanti
Domenico Fioravanti (born 1977, Novara) is a retired Italian breaststroke swimmer, the first Italian to win Olympic swimming gold, taking the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke double at Sydney 2000 before retiring in 2004 with cardiac hypertrophy.
Domenico Mordini
Domenico Mordini (1898-1948), Italian sailor nicknamed U Menegu, won 8-metre class gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics aboard Italia, Italy's first Olympic sailing title.
Domingo Manrique
Domingo Manrique (Domingo José Manrique de Lara Peñate), Spanish sailor born 1962 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Olympic Flying Dutchman gold with Luis Doreste at Barcelona 1992; competed in four Games (1988–2000).
Dominic Seiterle
Dominic Seiterle (born 1975, Montréal) is a Canadian rower, Dartmouth '98, and two-time Olympian: 13th in double sculls at Sydney 2000, then 2007 world champion and Beijing 2008 gold medalist in the men's eight (5:23.89).
Don Arnold
Don Arnold (Donald John Arnold, 1935–2021), Canadian rower from Kelowna, BC; won 1956 Olympic gold in coxless fours (Canada's first rowing gold) and 1960 silver in eights.
Don Beer
Don Beer (Donald Anton Eilers Beer, 1935–1997), American rower and Yale electrical engineering student who won gold in the men's eights at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, sitting fourth seat in the Yale eight that beat Canada by two seconds.
Don Blessing
Don Blessing (Donald Franklin Blessing, 1905-2000), American coxswain who steered the 1928 Cal Berkeley eight to Olympic gold at Amsterdam, later an investment banker and original Oakland Raiders AFL owner.
Don Havens
Don Havens (Donald Havens) is an American sprint freestyle swimmer, USC class of 1969, who won the 1967 Tokyo Universiade 100 m freestyle, swam on a world-record 4x100 m relay, and clocked 52.5 in 1969.
Don Hume
Don Hume (Donald Bruce Hume, 1915-2001), American rower, stroke oar of the University of Washington eight that won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics despite racing ill; later Merchant Marine and oil industry executive.
Don Schollander
Don Schollander (Donald Arthur Schollander, born 1946) is an American swimmer, first to win four golds at one Olympics (Tokyo 1964), five Olympic golds total, 22 world records, 1964 Sullivan Award winner.
Don Sheff
Don Sheff (Donald Alexander Sheff, born 27 June 1931, Brooklyn) is an American former Yale swimmer who swam the heats of the US 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics; 1952 rules denied heats swimmers medals. He held two relay world records and later directed the New York Institute of Photography.
Donald Aronow
Donald Joel Aronow (1927-1987), American boatbuilder and offshore powerboat racing champion; founded Formula, Donzi, Magnum, Cigarette, and USA Racing on Miami's Thunderboat Row; murdered 1987, Ben Kramer convicted of hiring the killer.
Donatien Bouche
Donatien Bouche (Bouché, 1882-1965), French sailor, helmsman of L'Aile VI, gold medal in the 8 metres class at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics with Virginie Hériot's crew.
Donna de Varona
Donna de Varona (born 1947), American swimmer, youngest member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team at 13; won 400 m individual medley and 4x100 freestyle relay gold at Tokyo 1964, set 18 world records, then became the first female U.S. network sportscaster and co-founded the Women's Sports Foundation.
Dora Bodonyi
Dóra Bodonyi (Bodonyi Dóra, later Hadvina Dóra), Hungarian sprint kayaker born 1993 in Szarvas; Tokyo 2020 K-4 500 m Olympic champion and K-2 bronze medallist, five-time world and six-time European champion, retired March 2025.
Đorđe Perišić
Đorđe Perišić (Ђорђе Перишић) is a Montenegrin-born former swimmer and water polo player who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at the 1968 Mexico City Games.
Dorian van Rijsselberghe
Dorian van Rijsselberghe (born 1988, Den Burg, Texel) is a Dutch windsurfer who won Olympic RS:X gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016, was London's Dutch flagbearer, and later led the iQFOiL class.
Dorothy Poynton-Hill
Dorothy Poynton-Hill (1915-1995), American diver, also Dorothy Poynton; four Olympic diving medals: 1928 springboard silver at 13 (youngest U.S. Olympic medalist), platform gold 1932 and 1936, 1936 springboard bronze.
Dorothy Wright
Dorothy Wright (Dorothy Winifred Wright, née Machin, 1889–1960) was a British Olympic sailor who won gold in the 7-metre class at Antwerp 1920 aboard Ancora, the only woman in the 1920 yachting events and third female yachting gold medalist.
Doug Gjertsen
Doug Gjertsen (Douglas Seneca Gjertsen, born 1967), American swimmer and coach; double 1988 Seoul Olympic freestyle relay gold medalist, 1992 bronze, Texas Longhorn NCAA champion, later SwimAtlanta head coach.
Doug Northway
Doug Northway (Douglas Dale Northway, born 1955) is an American swimmer who won 1,500 m freestyle bronze at Munich 1972 and swam on the US 4x200 m freestyle relay that set the 7:30.33 world record at Montreal 1976.
Doug Russell
Doug Russell (Douglas Albert Russell, born 1946), American swimmer from Midland, Texas; 1968 Olympic gold in 100 m butterfly (55.9 OR, upsetting Mark Spitz) and 4x100 medley relay; world records in backstroke, butterfly, medley relay; ISHOF 1985.
Doug van Wie
Doug van Wie (born 1984) is an American former swimmer from Charlotte, North Carolina, an Auburn backstroker who won gold and a 3:08.44 world record on the US 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2008 short-course Worlds, later a healthcare strategy executive.
Drew Kibler
Drew Kibler (Andrew Patrick Kibler), American freestyle swimmer born 2000 in Indianapolis; two-time Olympian (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) with Olympic relay silver in Paris, short course 4x200 free relay world record 6:44.12, and Texas Longhorns NCAA champion.
Dubravko Simenc
Dubravko Šimenc, born 1966 in Zagreb, is a Croatian water polo player who won Olympic gold for Yugoslavia in 1988 and silver for Croatia in 1996, plus World Championship golds in 1986 and 1991.
Dudley Storey
Dudley Storey (1939–2017) was a New Zealand rower who won Olympic gold in the 1968 coxed four and silver in the 1972 coxless four, then managed national teams.
Duje Bonacic
Duje Bonačić (Дује Боначић), Croatian rower for Yugoslavia (1929–2020), won gold in the men's coxless fours at Helsinki 1952 with Valenta, Trojanović, and Šegvić, Yugoslavia's only rowing gold.