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Iain Percy
Iain Bryden Percy, British sailor born 1976 in Southampton, double Olympic champion (Finn Sydney 2000, Star Beijing 2008) with London 2012 silver, two-time Star world champion, now CEO of Artemis Technologies and Artemis SailGP Team.
Ian Black
Ian Black (Ian MacIntosh Black), born 1941 in Inverness, Scotland, is a British swimmer who won three golds at the 1958 Budapest Europeans, medaled at the 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games, set a 400 m medley world record, and placed fourth at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Ian Crocker
Ian Crocker (Ian Lowell Crocker, born 1982, Portland, Maine), American butterfly swimmer; three Olympic golds in the 4x100m medley relay (2000, 2004, 2008), 100m butterfly world record holder 2003-2009, Texas Longhorn, ISHOF 2017. Not the distance runner or British director of the same name.
Ian Ferguson
Ian Ferguson (born 1952, Taumarunui), New Zealand sprint canoeist; four Olympic golds and one silver across five Games, including three golds at Los Angeles 1984; K2 partner Paul MacDonald.
Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe, nicknamed "Thorpedo", is an Australian swimmer who dominated middle- and long-distance freestyle from 1998 to 2004, winning five Olympic golds among nine medals.
Ian Turner
Ian Gordon Turner (1925-2010), American Olympic rower from Oakland, California; stroke seat of the UC Berkeley eight that won 1948 London Olympic gold in 5:56.7, brother of Dave Turner.
Igor Gocanin
Igor Gocanin (Игор Гочанин), born 1966 in Herceg Novi, is a Serbian water polo coach and former player who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at Seoul 1988 and European and World Cup medals.
Igor Grivennikov
Igor Grivennikov (Игорь Анатольевич Гривенников), Soviet swimmer born 1952 in Moscow, Dynamo Moscow; 1972 Munich Olympic silver (4x100 free relay) and bronze (4x200), 1973 world relay silver, later a biochemist.
Igor Hinic
Igor Hinić, Croatian water polo centre forward born 1975 in Rijeka; five Olympian, Atlanta 1996 silver, London 2012 gold, 2007 world champion, 417 caps, later coach of Primorje EB.
Igor Kravtsov
Igor Kravtsov (Игорь Александрович Кравцов), born 1973 in Magnitogorsk, is the Russian rower who won men's quadruple sculls gold at Athens 2004 (Russia's first Olympic rowing title) after placing eighth at Atlanta 1996.
Igor Lukashin
Igor Lukashin (Игорь Владимирович Лукашин), Russian platform diver born 1979 in Penza; won synchronized 10 m platform gold with Dmitry Sautin at Sydney 2000 (365.04), was seventh individually, and took 1998 world and European championship medals. Not the hockey player born 1981.
Igor Marchukov
Igor Marchukov (Марчуков), Soviet breaststroke swimmer from Smolensk, International Master of Sport and Soviet champion; member of the USSR swimming team at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, with bests of 1:07.4 (100 m) and 2:28.9 (200 m) in 1969, later a referee at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Igor Marenic
Igor Marenić, Croatian sailor born 1986 in Mali Lošinj; with Šime Fantela won 470 gold at Rio 2016, Croatia's first Olympic sailing gold, plus two world and three European 470 titles; now 470 Class president.
Igor Milanovic
Igor Milanović (Игор Милановић), Serbian water polo center born 1965 in Belgrade, won Olympic gold for Yugoslavia in 1984 and 1988, world titles in 1986 and 1991, and entered the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2006.
Igor Polyansky
Igor Polyansky (Игорь Николаевич Полянский, born 1967, Novosibirsk) is a Soviet backstroke swimmer, 1988 Olympic 200 m backstroke champion and bronze medalist in the 100 m and medley relay, holder of five world records, later a coach in Auckland, New Zealand; not the 1990-born triathlete of the same name.
Ihor Matviyenko
Ihor Matviyenko (Ігор Григорович Матвієнко), born 1971 in Dnipro, Ukrainian sailor; 470-class Olympic gold with Yevhen Braslavets at Atlanta 1996, Ukraine's only sailing gold; later world and European champion, now coaching in Cyprus.
Iker Martinez
Iker Martinez (Iker Martínez de Lizarduy Lizarribar), Spanish sailor born 1977 in San Sebastián; 49er Olympic gold Athens 2004 and silver Beijing 2008 with Xabier Fernández, three 49er world titles, 2011 World Sailor of the Year, later Volvo Ocean Race skipper.
Ilia Shymanovich
Ilia Shymanovich (Ilya Shimanovich, Ілья Шымановіч), Belarusian breaststroke swimmer born 1994 in Minsk; SCM world record holder in the 100 m breaststroke (55.28) and 2021 world short course champion, two-time Olympian.
Ilona Richter
Ilona Richter (later Richter-Dörfel, born 1953) is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the women's coxed eight for East Germany at Montréal 1976 and Moskva 1980, plus world titles in 1974, 1975, and 1977.
Ilsa Konrads
Ilsa Konrads (born 1944, Riga) is an Australian former swimmer, half of the Konrads Kids with brother John; she set 12 individual world records, won 1958 Commonwealth gold and 1960 Olympic relay silver.
Ilse Paulis
Ilse Paulis (born 1993) is a retired Dutch rower, Olympic gold medalist in the lightweight double sculls at Rio 2016 with Maaike Head and bronze medalist at Tokyo 2020, now regatta director of the 2026 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam.
Ilya Zakharov
Ilya Zakharov (Илья Леонидович Захаров), Russian diver born 1991 in St. Petersburg; 2012 Olympic 3m springboard champion and synchronized silver medallist, 2017 world synchronized 3m champion with Kuznetsov.
Imogen Grant
Imogen Grant (Imogen Daisy Grant, born 1996), British lightweight rower and doctor; Cambridge Boat Race winner, 2018 U23 world champion, Tokyo 2020 fourth, and Paris 2024 Olympic gold medallist in the lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig; MBE.
Impossibles
Impossibles, also Impossibles Beach, is the fast, technical barrel section of the Jeffreys Bay right-hand point break in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, between Supertubes and Tubes, breaking close to rocks; a separate Bali surf break shares the name.
Imre Pulai
Imre Pulai (Pulai Imre), Hungarian sprint canoeist born 1967 in Budapest; Olympic gold C-2 500 m Sydney 2000 with Ferenc Novák, bronze C-1 500 m Atlanta 1996, four world titles, later luge athlete and bobsled-luge federation president.
Ina Kleber
Ina Kleber (later Buttgereit), born 1964 in Greiz, East German backstroke swimmer; 1980 Olympic silver in 100 m backstroke (1:02.07), 1981 and 1983 European champion, 1982 world silver, and 100 m backstroke world record holder 1:00.59 from 1984 to 1991.
Ines Geißler
Ines Geißler (Ines Geißler-Kaulfuss), East German swimmer born 1963 in Marienberg, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist in the 200 m butterfly (2:10.44), also 1982 world champion and 1981/1983 European champion; career later linked to GDR doping.
Infant swimming
Infant swimming, or baby swimming, is structured aquatic classes for babies under about 1 year, usually with a parent. The AAP finds no evidence such lessons lower drowning risk under age 1 and recommends lessons after the first birthday.
Ingar Nielsen
Ingar Nielsen (born 29 August 1885, Oslo) was a Norwegian Olympic sailor with Kongelig Norsk Seilforening who won gold in the 10-metre class aboard Eleda at Antwerp 1920 and gold in the 8-metre class aboard Bera at Paris 1924.
Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn (born 1973) is a Dutch former swimmer who won four Olympic golds and set world records in the 50 and 100 meter freestyle and butterfly.