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He Cihong

He Cihong (賀慈紅), born 1975 in Ningbo, China, is a former backstroke swimmer who set 100 m, 200 m, and medley relay world records and won three golds at the 1994 Rome World Championships.

He Jianbin

He Jianbin (何健彬, born 1993, Jiangmen, Guangdong) is a Chinese backstroke and freestyle swimmer who won 3 golds and a silver at the 2010 Youth Olympics and swam at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.

He Zi

He Zi (何姿), Chinese springboard diver born 1990 in Guangxi. Olympic gold in 3 m synchro with Wu Minxia (London 2012) plus two 3 m springboard silvers; four world titles; retired 2017.

Healing Surf

Healing Surf (힐링서프) is a South Korean surf school and shop brand run by a KSL pro surfer at Dadaepo Beach, Busan, with a same-name shop in Yangyang, Gangwon, offering beginner lessons and rentals.

Heather Pease Olson

Heather Pease Olson (Heather M. Pease Olson), American synchronized swimmer born 1975 in Monterey, California; won 1996 Atlanta Olympic team gold, placed fifth at Sydney 2000, starred for Stanford, later coached and directed USA Synchronized Swimming.

Heather Simmons-Carrasco

Heather Simmons-Carrasco, born in 1970 in Mountain View, California, is an American artistic swimmer who won the first Olympic team gold at the 1996 Atlanta Games and team world titles in 1991 and 1994.

Heather Stanning

Heather Stanning (born 1985) is a retired British rower and Army Major who with Helen Glover won Olympic women's pair gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016, unbeaten in 39 races.

Heike Friedrich

Heike Friedrich (born 1970, Karl-Marx-Stadt/Chemnitz) is a German former swimmer for East Germany; 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the 200 m freestyle and 4x100 m relay, silver in the 400 m, four-time 1986 world champion, 200 m world record holder 1986-1994, later implicated in the GDR doping investigation.

Heike Singer

Heike Singer (Heike Klein), born 1964 in Rodewisch, East German sprint canoeist; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold in K-4 500 m with Schmidt, Nothnagel, Portwich; three world titles 1985 and 1989.

Heimana Reynolds

Heimana Reynolds (born 1998, Honolulu), nicknamed Flyin' Hawaiian, is an American park skateboarder, 2019 world champion, and Tokyo 2020 Olympian who placed 13th in men's park.

Heinrich Peters

Heinrich Peters was a German sailor who won gold and silver medals in sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris as a crew member of the yacht Aschenbrödel.

Heinz Jurgen Bothe

Heinz-Jürgen Bothe (born 1941, Berlin) is an East German rower who won 1968 Olympic gold in the coxless pairs with Jörg Lucke, then developed GDR racing boats at the FES institute. Not the Hannover 96 footballer Heinz Bothe.

Heinz Renneberg

Heinz Renneberg (Karlheinz Renneberg, 1927–1999), West German rower from RV Gelsenkirchen; 1952 Olympian in coxless pairs and 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist in the coxed pairs with Bernhard Knubel and cox Klaus Zerta.

Helen Glover

Helen Glover is a British rower who won Olympic gold in the women's pair at London 2012 and Rio 2016, the first ever won by British female rowers.

Helen Johns

Helen Johns (Helen Eileen Johns-Carroll, 1914–2014), American swimmer who won gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics in a world record 4:38.0; later a coach and special education teacher.

Helen Meany

Helen Meany (1904–1991), American diver, first U.S. woman diver at three Olympics; 5th in plain high 1920 and 1924, 1928 Amsterdam springboard gold; 13–17 AAU titles; ended by Miami Beach water show.

Helen Wainwright

Helen Wainwright (Helen E. Wainwright-Stelling, 1906-1965), American diver and swimmer; Olympic silver in 1920 springboard diving and 1924 400 m freestyle; 1,500 m freestyle world record holder.

Helene Madison

Helene Madison (1913-1970), American freestyle swimmer from Seattle, won three gold medals at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics (100m, 400m, 4x100m relay) and held 23 world records; first woman to swim 100 yards freestyle in one minute.

Helene, Comtesse de Pourtales

Hélène, Comtesse de Pourtalès (Helen Barbey, 1868-1945), Swiss-American countess and sailor; first woman to compete at the Olympics and first female Olympic medalist, winning gold and silver in the 1-2 ton class aboard Lérina at Paris 1900.

Helga Lindner

Helga Lindner (later Haertel), 1951-2021, East German butterfly swimmer from Chemnitz; 1968 Olympic 200m butterfly silver behind Ada Kok, 1970 European champion, 200m fly European record holder.

Helma Lehmann

Helma Lehmann (née Mähren), born 1953 in Plaue an der Havel, East German rower with SC Dynamo Berlin; Olympic gold in the women's eight at Montréal 1976, world champion in the eights 1974 and coxed four 1975.

Helmer Pedersen

Helmer Orla Leif Pedersen (1930–1987), Danish-born New Zealand sailor; with Earle Wells won Flying Dutchman gold at Tokyo 1964 aboard Pandora, New Zealand's second Olympic sailing gold; earlier reserve for Denmark 1952 and NZ 1960.

Helmuth Fischer

Helmuth Fischer (Helmut Paul Wilhelm Fischer, 1911–1996) was a German freestyle swimmer from Bremerhaven: German 100 m champion 1933 and 1935–39, fifth at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, European record holder over 100 m and in the 4×100 m relay.

Hendrik Reiher

Hendrik Reiher (born 1962, Eisenhüttenstadt) is a German rowing coxswain; Olympic gold 1988 Seoul and silver 1992 Barcelona in the coxed fours, three world titles.

Henk Jan Zwolle

Henk Jan Zwolle (Henk-Jan Zwolle), Dutch rower born 1964 in Enschede: 1988 single sculls, 1992 double sculls bronze with Nico Rienks, 1996 Olympic gold men's eight; later coach, team manager, and World Rowing fairness official.

Henley Royal Regatta

Henley Royal Regatta, held since 1839 on the Thames at Henley-on-Thames, is a six-day knock-out rowing regatta over 2,112 m upstream, royal patronage since 1851, 862 entries from 21 nations in 2026.

Henri Bouckaert

Henri Bouckaert (Jules Henri Bouckaert, 1870-1912), French rower of Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix; won gold in the men's coxed fours at Paris 1900 in 7:11.0, and drowned in the Texas shipwreck in the Gulf of İzmir.

Henri Gilardoni

Henri Gilardoni (Henri Joseph Marcel Gilardoni, 1876–1937), French sailor; won gold in the 3-10 Tons class, Race #1, at the 1900 Paris Olympics helming the yacht Fémur at Meulan.

Henri Hazebrouck

Henri Hazebrouck (Henri Alphonse Hazebrouck, 1877–1948), French rower from Roubaix, Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix; won gold in men's coxed fours at the 1900 Paris Olympics in 7:11.0 with Bouckaert, Cau, Delchambre, and coxswain Charlot.

Henrietta Ebert

Henrietta Ebert, born Henrietta Dobler (1954, Kirchmöser), East German rower with SC Dynamo Berlin; Olympic gold in the women's eight at Montréal 1976 (3:33.32), world eights gold 1974 and coxed fours gold 1975.