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Alain Mosconi
Alain Mosconi (born 1949, Puteaux), French freestyle swimmer for CN Marseille; 1968 Olympic 400 m freestyle bronze medalist; 1967 world record holder in 400 m (4:09.2) and 800 m freestyle (8:46.8); three Olympian, 52 French titles.
Alajos Kenyery
Alajos Kenyery (Kenyéry Alajos, later Kronberg), Hungarian freestyle swimmer, 1912 Stockholm Olympian who set the 400 m freestyle world record of 5:29.0 in April 1912; distinct from water polo player Alajos Keserű.
Alajos Keserű
Alajos Keserű (Keserű II, nicknamed Laló), Hungarian water polo player (1905–1965): Olympic gold 1932, silver 1928, fifth 1924, four-time European champion, 73 caps, brother of Ferenc Keserű.
Alan Ford
Alan Robert Ford (1923–2008), American swimmer from the Panama Canal Zone and Yale; broke Johnny Weissmuller's 100-yard freestyle record, first under 50 seconds, and took 100 m freestyle silver at the 1948 London Olympics.
Alan Morgan
Alan Conger Morgan (1909-1984), American sailor and aviation executive; won 1932 Olympic gold in the 8 metre class as crew on Owen Churchill's Angelita; later Northrop vice-president.
Alan Somers
Alan Somers (Alan Brounell Somers, born 1941, Indianapolis) is an American distance swimmer: 1959 Pan Am 1500 m freestyle gold medalist, 1960 Rome Olympian (400 m 5th, 1500 m 7th), 4x200 freestyle relay world record holder (8:17.0), later a neurologist.
Albert Arnheiter
Albert Stephan Arnheiter (1890–1945), German rower of Ludwigshafener Ruderverein; won gold in the men's coxed fours at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics with Wilker and the Fickeisen brothers; killed in action in Italy in 1945.
Albert Gladstone
Sir Albert Charles Gladstone (1886-1967), grandson of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, was a British rower who won 1908 Olympic eights gold with Leander Club and later directed the Bank of England.
Albert Hedderich
Albert Hedderich (born 1957, Mainz) is a retired West German rower of RV Ingelheim 1920 who won quadruple sculls gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1983 World Championships, beating East Germany for the first time.
Albert Vandeweghe
Albert Joseph "Al" Vande Weghe (1916-2002), American backstroke swimmer, won 1936 Olympic silver in the 100 m backstroke, set six world records, first under one minute for 100 yards, introduced the backstroke flip turn.
Albert Zurner
Albert Zürner (1890-1920), German diver from Hamburg's SV Stern, won 1908 Olympic springboard gold (85.50) and 1912 platform silver (72.60), finished fourth at 1906 Athens, and died in a diving accident.
Alberto Winkler
Alberto Winkler (1932–1981), Italian rower from Castelbello-Ciardes, South Tyrol; Canottieri Moto Guzzi club member; won coxed fours gold at Melbourne 1956 and European eights titles 1957–58.
Alberto Zorrilla
Alberto Zorrilla (Victoriano Alberto Zorrilla, 1906-1986), Argentine swimmer nicknamed Zorilla de Oro; won 400 m freestyle gold at Amsterdam 1928 in 5:01.60 OR, first South American Olympic swimming champion and Argentina's only swimming gold medalist.
Albina Osipowich
Albina Osipowich (Albina Lucy Charlotte Osipowich-Van Aken, 1911-1964), American freestyle swimmer of Lithuanian descent; double gold medalist at Amsterdam 1928 in the 100 m freestyle (1:11.0 world record) and 4x100 m freestyle relay (4:47.6).
Aldo Eminente
Aldo Eminente (1931-2021), French freestyle swimmer of the Racing Club de France; Olympic bronze in the 4x200 m relay at Helsinki 1952, world record 4x100 m medley relay 1953, six straight French 100 m freestyle titles 1953-1958.
Aldo Ghira
Aldo Ghira (Lallo), 1920–1991, Italian swimmer and water polo player of SS Lazio; 1947 European champion and 1948 London Olympic gold medalist; father of Andrea Ghira of the 1975 Circeo massacre.
Alejandra Orozco
Alejandra Orozco (Alejandra Orozco Loza), Mexican diver born 1997 in Zapopan, Jalisco; Olympic silver London 2012 and bronze Tokyo 2020 in 10m synchronized platform, four-time Olympian, retired after Paris 2024.
Alejandro Abascal
Alejandro Abascal García, known as Jan Abascal, is a Spanish sailor who won Spain's first Olympic sailing gold, in the Flying Dutchman at the 1980 Moscow Games.
Aleksander Doba
Aleksander Ludwik Doba (1946-2021), Polish engineer and ocean kayaker, made three solo Atlantic kayak crossings, including a record 7,716-mile Lisbon-to-Florida paddle, and died on Kilimanjaro.
Aleksandr Berkutov
Aleksandr Berkutov (Александр Николаевич Беркутов, 1933–2012), Soviet rower, Dynamo Moskva; with Yury Tyukalov won double sculls gold at Melbourne 1956 and silver at Rome 1960, later Soviet team head coach and professor.
Aleksandr Degtyaryov
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Degtyaryov (Александр Владимирович Дегтярёв), born 1955, Soviet sprint canoeist; Olympic gold in men's K-4 1,000 m at Montreal 1976 (3:08.69) and 1974 world silver; not the Russian sports minister Mikhail Degtyarev.
Aleksandr Dolgushin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Dolgushin (Александр Иванович Долгушин), Soviet water polo defender (1946–2006): Olympic gold 1972, silver 1968, World champion 1975, tenfold USSR champion with CSK VMF Moskva.
Aleksandr Dyachenko
Aleksandr Igorevich Dyachenko (Александр Игоревич Дьяченко), Russian canoe sprint kayaker born 1990 in Rudny, Kazakhstan; Olympic K2 200 m gold with Yury Postrigay at London 2012, world champion 2013 and 2019, banned four years from 2022 for LIMS data analysis.
Aleksandr Lukyanov
Aleksandr Lukyanov (Александр Викторович Лукьянов), born 1949 in Moscow, is a Russian rowing coxswain. Olympic champion 1976 coxed four; silvers 1980, 1988; bronze 1996; five Games 1976–2000.
Aleksandr Popkov
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Popkov (Александр Евгеньевич Попков), Russian swimmer born 1994 in St. Petersburg; 2016 Olympian, six-time short-course world relay champion, and short-course 4x50 medley relay world record holder (1:30.44, 2017-2021).
Aleksandr Popov (Александр Владимирович Попов) (swimmer)
Aleksandr Popov (Александр Владимирович Попов), born 1971, Russian sprint freestyle swimmer, the "Russian Rocket"; won 50 m and 100 m freestyle at both 1992 and 1996 Olympics, four golds and five silvers, world records 48.21 and 21.64.
Aleksandr Portnov
Aleksandr Portnov (Александр Сталиевич Портнов), Soviet diver born 1961 in Baku, won men's 3 m springboard gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics (905.025) amid a re-dive controversy, plus 1981 European gold and 1982 Worlds bronze.
Aleksandr Rogov
Aleksandr Rogov (Александр Рогов), name shared by a Soviet canoeist (1956–2004), Olympic C-1 500 m gold at Montreal 1976 in 1:59.23, and a Russian stylist-TV presenter born 1981, host of 'Uspet za 24 chasa' and 'Rogov v gorode'.
Aleksandr Sadovnikov
Aleksandr Sadovnikov (Александр Садовников), born 1996 in Volgograd, Russian butterfly swimmer; 2014 Youth Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay and 2016 Rio Olympian.
Aleksandr Sema
Aleksandr Andreyevich Sema (Александр Андреевич Сема), Soviet rower born 1952 in Leningrad; Olympic gold in men's coxed fours at Montreal 1976, world champion 1975, Soviet champion 1974 and 1975, father of Anton Sema.