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Hiroshi Negami
Hiroshi Negami (根上博, 1912-1980), Japanese freestyle swimmer from Rikkyo University; 1935 national 400 m record 4:45.2, 4x200 m relay world record 8:52.2, fifth in the 400 m freestyle at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, later Japan Swimming Federation president.
Hiroshi Suzuki
Hiroshi Suzuki is the name of two Japanese Olympic athletes: a swimmer who won two silver medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, and a bobsledder at five Winter Games.
Hisakichi Toyoda
Hisakichi Toyoda (豊田久吉, later Minejima, 1912–1976), Japanese freestyle swimmer; won 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold in the 4×200 m freestyle relay with a world record 8:58.4; distinct from inventor Sakichi Toyoda.
History of swimming
History of swimming: from 10,000-year-old rock art and ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman practice through medieval decline, Wynmann's 1538 manual, the 1837 National Swimming Society, the crawl's rise, Olympic swimming since 1896, and World Aquatics governance to Paris 2024.
Hjalmar Johansson
Hjalmar Johansson (Carl August Hjalmar Johansson, 1874–1957), Swedish diver and swimmer; 1908 Olympic platform diving gold medalist, 1912 plain high diving silver medalist, FINA founding contributor, ISHOF inductee 1982.
Holly Metcalf
Holly Metcalf (Harriet Morris Metcalf), American rower born 1958 in Providence, Rhode Island; won gold in the women's eight at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the first US women's rowing gold, then coached MIT and founded Row As One, G-ROW, and WeCanRow.
Hooksieler Surf Club e V.
Hooksieler Surf Club e.V. (HSC), founded 19 August 1981, is a German windsurfing club with over 200 members at the tide-independent Hooksmeer in Hooksiel, Wangerland, Lower Saxony, known for its annual Hooksmeer-Regatta and on-site surf school.
Horst Effertz
Horst Effertz (born 4 August 1938, Düsseldorf) is a German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed fours at Rome 1960 for the Unified Team of Germany (6:39.12), and sixth in the coxless fours at Tokyo 1964.
Horst Gunter Gregor
Horst-Günter Gregor (1938–1995), East German swimmer nicknamed Muskel, won three Olympic relay silvers (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968), two European relay titles, and 21 East German national swimming titles.
Horst Hock
Horst Hock (Horst Höck/Hoeck, 1904–1969), German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed fours at Los Angeles 1932 for the Berlin Rowing Club; his lost gold medal was found in 2015.
Horst Meyer
Horst Meyer (1941-2020), German rower, stroked the Deutschland-Achter; Olympic gold 1968 and silver 1964 in the men's eight, world champion 1962 and 1966, later a consultant and Hamburg's 2012 Olympic bid director.
Howard Johnson
Howard Johnson (Howard R. Johnson, 1919-2015), American freestyle swimmer for Yale, three-time NCAA champion (220-yard freestyle 1940, 1941; 100-yard freestyle 1942), captain of Yale's first NCAA championship team, 400-yard freestyle relay world record holder; not the Motown singer or baseball player.
Howard Kingsbury
Howard Kingsbury (Howard Thayer Kingsbury Jr., 1904–1991), American rower; won gold in the men's eights for the United States at the 1924 Paris Olympics as the six-oar of the Yale crew; father of 1948 bronze medalist Fred Kingsbury.
Howard Taylor
Howard Taylor, full name John Howard Taylor, was a British stockbroker and sailor who won gold in the 3-10 ton class at the 1900 Paris Olympics aboard Bona Fide.
Hu Jia
Hu Jia (胡佳, born 1983, Wuhan) is a Chinese platform diver, 2004 Olympic 10m platform champion and double Sydney 2000 silver medalist; distinct from the jailed human-rights activist of the same name.
Huancarute
Huancarute is a beach and year-round surf spot in the Huanchaco area, Department of La Libertad, Peru, near Trujillo at −8.08215°, −79.12234°, with shore-entry waves of roughly 1.3–1.8 m tracked by forecast models.
Hubert Caldwell
Hubert Augustus Caldwell (1907-1972), American rower from Oakland, California; seventh seat of the undefeated 1928 Cal/Berkeley eight that won the IRA Regatta, the Olympic Trials, and Amsterdam 1928 Olympic gold; later an engineer in Piedmont.
Hugh Edwards
Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards was a British rower and RAF officer who won Olympic gold in the coxless pairs and fours on the same day at the 1932 Los Angeles Games.
Hugh Fisher
Hugh Fisher (born 1955, Hamilton, New Zealand) is a Canadian sprint kayaker and emergency physician; with Alwyn Morris he won K-2 1000m gold in world record 3:24.22 and K-2 500m bronze at Los Angeles 1984.
Hugh Foley
Hugh Miller Foley (1944-2016), American rower with Vesper Boat Club; won gold in the men's eights at Tokyo 1964, six US titles, 1967 Pan-Am coxed fours gold, later Boston University crew coach.
Hugo Boucheron
Hugo Boucheron (born 1993) is a French rower, Olympic champion in the men's double sculls at Tokyo 2020 with Matthieu Androdias, and world champion in 2018 and 2022; since 2025 he races the men's four.
Hugo Strauß
Hugo Strauß (Max Hugo Strauß), German rower (1907–1941), 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist in men's coxless pairs with Willi Eichhorn; Mannheimer RC member, founding president of Adler Mannheim's predecessor MERC, SS member killed on the Eastern Front.
Hui Li
Hui Li (李慧), Chinese swimmer from Shanghai; set the women's 50 m backstroke short-course world record of 26.83 s on 2 December 2001 at the FINA World Cup in Shanghai, aged 16. Distinct from Singapore's Li Hui Genevieve Lye and Canada's Hau-Li Fan.
Hulakai Surf & Paddle
Hulakai Surf & Paddle (Hulakai Hawaii) is a Big Island surf and SUP shop founded in 1997 by shaper Jun Balanga, with stores in Hilo, Waikoloa, and Kailua-Kona offering hand-shaped epoxy boards, rentals, lessons, and canoe tours.
Humbert Lunden
Humbert Lundén (Anders Pontus Humbert Lundén, 1882–1961), Swedish sailor of GKSS Göteborg, won gold in the 10-metre class aboard Kitty at Stockholm 1912, Sweden's first Olympic sailing gold.
Hunter Armstrong
Hunter Armstrong (Joseph "Hunter" Armstrong, born 2001), American backstroke and freestyle swimmer from Dover, Ohio; two Olympic relay golds, former 50m backstroke world record holder (23.71), competed clean at the 2026 Enhanced Games, retired 2026.
Hunter Lott
Hunter Lott (Harry Hunter Lott, 1880-1949), American Olympic rower with Vesper Boat Club, won gold in the men's eights at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics; later an otolaryngology professor at Jefferson Medical College. Not the squash champion Hunter Lott Jr.
Huo Liang
Huo Liang (火亮), born 1989 in Shanghai, Chinese platform diver; Olympic gold in men's synchronized 10m platform with Lin Yue at Beijing 2008, three straight World Championship synchro platform titles 2007–2011.
Iain Jensen
Iain Jensen (born 1988) is an Australian sailor who won Olympic gold in the 49er at London 2012 and silver at Rio 2016 with Nathan Outteridge.
Iain Macdonald Smith
Iain Macdonald Smith (Iain Somerled MacDonald-Smith), British Olympic sailor born 1945 in Oxford; won 1968 Flying Dutchman gold crewing for Rodney Pattisson in Superdocious with a record 3.0 net points, and placed 13th in the 1976 Soling.