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Janet Evans
Janet Evans (born 1971), American distance swimmer; four Olympic golds and one silver (1988-1996), seven world records in the 400, 800, and 1,500 m freestyle that stood about two decades; LA28 Chief Athlete Officer.
Jang Gyu Cheol
Jang Gyu Cheol (장규철, Chang Gyu-cheol), born 1992, South Korean butterfly swimmer; 2010 Youth Olympic 100 m butterfly champion, 2012 Olympian, former Korean record holder in 100 m and 200 m butterfly.
Jani Sievinen
Jani Sievinen (born 1974, Vihti, Finland) is a retired Finnish swimmer, 1996 Olympic silver medalist in the 200 m individual medley and 1994 long-course world champion in world record 1:58.16, plus short-course world record holder.
Janie Wagstaff
Janie Wagstaff (Elizabeth Jane Wagstaff), American backstroke swimmer born 1974 in Kansas City, Missouri; 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay, 1991 world champion in the same relay, later a Colorado State veterinary student.
Janine Belton
Janine Belton (Janine Claire Belton, later Usher), born 1979 in Bradford, is a British swimmer who won gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 2001 Fukuoka World Championships and set a short-course world record of 7:47.14, after finishing 10th at Atlanta 1996 and 6th at Sydney 2000.
Janine Pietsch
Janine Pietsch (born 1982, Berlin) is a German backstroke swimmer of SC Delphin Ingolstadt; world record 50 m backstroke 28.19 (2005), double 2006 short-course world champion, 2006 European champion, 2004 Olympian.
Janos Konrad
János Konrád (Konrád II), Hungarian water polo player (1941-2014), Olympic gold 1964 Tokyo and bronzes 1960, 1968; 123 caps; later coached Hungary's women's and men's national teams and OSC's 1978 European Champions Cup side.
Janos Parti
János Parti (Parti János), Hungarian sprint canoeist (1932–1999), Olympic C1 1000 m champion at Rome 1960 after silvers in 1952 and 1956; 1954 world champion; later national captain of Hungary's kayak-canoe team.
Janos Uranyi
Janos Uranyi (Urányi János, 1924–1964), Hungarian sprint kayaker; with Laszlo Fabian won K-2 10,000 m gold at Melbourne 1956, Hungary's first kayaking Olympic gold and the event's last Olympic edition.
Jans Koster
Jans Koster (born 1938) is a Dutch swimmer who set two 1500 m freestyle world records (20:22.8 in 1956, 20:03.1 in 1957) and won the 1958 European 400 m freestyle title in Budapest.
Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics: Team Japan (日本) fielded 409 athletes in Paris and won 45 medals (20 gold, 12 silver, 13 bronze), finishing third on the medal table behind the United States and China.
Jarmila Mullerova
Jarmila Müllerová (Müllerová-Suková), Czechoslovak backstroke swimmer, 1901–1944; set 100 m backstroke world record 1:35.0 in Prague, 29 July 1923, and placed fifth at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Jason Lezak
Jason Lezak is a retired American sprint freestyle swimmer who won eight Olympic medals, four gold, across four Games from 2000 to 2012, best known for his 2008 relay anchor leg.
Jason Read
Jason Read (born 1977, Flemington, New Jersey) is an American rower who won gold in the men's eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics, the first US rowing gold in 40 years, and served as a Ground Zero firefighter-EMT.
Jasper Aerents
Jasper Aerents, Belgian sprint freestyle swimmer born 1992 in Ghent; two-time Olympian (2012, 2016), 2013 short course 4x50 m freestyle relay world record holder, four European relay bronzes, retired with four Belgian records.
Jay Moriarity
Jay Moriarity (1978-2001), American big-wave surfer from Santa Cruz, mentored by Frosty Hesson, famous for his 1994 Mavericks wipeout at 16; died free-diving in the Maldives; life depicted in Chasing Mavericks (2012).
Jay Mortenson
Jay Paul Mortenson (born 1966) is an American former swimmer who won gold in the 4x100 m medley relay at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, swam for Stanford, and later became a Los Angeles investment banker.
Jean Boiteux
Jean Boiteux (1933–2010) was a French freestyle swimmer who won the 400 m freestyle at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, becoming France's first Olympic swimming champion.
Jean Cau
Jean Cau names two Frenchmen: a writer (1925-1993), Sartre's secretary, 1961 Prix Goncourt winner for La Pitié de Dieu and right-wing pamphleteer, and an Olympic rower (1875-1921), 1900 Paris coxed fours gold medalist.
Jean Christophe Bette
Jean Christophe Bette is a French rower born in 1977 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye who won Olympic gold in the lightweight coxless four at the 2000 Sydney Games.
Jean Christophe Rolland
Jean-Christophe Rolland, French rower (born 1968, Condrieu), Olympic coxless pair champion Sydney 2000 with Michel Andrieux, and president of World Rowing (FISA) since 2014, IOC member since 2017.
Jean Lesieur
Jean Lesieur (Jean Henri Eugène Lesieur, 1904–1943), French sailor, Olympic gold medalist in the 8-metre class at Amsterdam 1928 as crew aboard Virginie Hériot's L'Aile VI.
Jean Pierre Curtillet
Jean Pierre Curtillet is the name variant of Jean-Pascal Curtillet, a French freestyle swimmer, born 1942 in Algiers, who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.
Jean Taris
Jean Taris was a French freestyle swimmer who won silver in the 400 meters freestyle at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and held seven world records.
Jean van der Westhuyzen
Jean van der Westhuyzen, South African-born Australian canoe sprint paddler (born 1998, Cape Town). Tokyo 2020 K2 1000m Olympic gold with Tom Green, Paris 2024 K2 500m bronze; brother of Pierre van der Westhuyzen.
Jean-Yves Le Déroff
Jean-Yves Le Déroff, born 1957 in Morocco, is a French sailor who won the Tornado catamaran gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, crewing with Nicolas Hénard.
Jeanette Ottesen
Jeanette Ottesen (Ottesen Gray), born 1987 in Kongens Lyngby, is Denmark's most decorated swimmer: 53 championship medals, five Olympics, world titles in 100m freestyle (2011) and 50m butterfly (2013), Olympic relay bronze 2016, retired 2021.
Jeanne Flanagan
Jeanne Ann Flanagan (born 1957, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American rower with the Boston Rowing Club who won gold in the women's eights at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics after being named to the boycotted 1980 team, with World Championship silver (1981) and bronze (1979).
Jed Graef
Jed Graef, born Jedward Richard Graef in 1942, is an American backstroke swimmer who won the 200-meter gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in world-record 2:10.3.
Jeff Farrell
Jeff Farrell (Felix Jeffrey Farrell, born 1937, Detroit) is an American swimmer who won two 1960 Rome Olympic golds anchoring world-record relays six weeks after an appendectomy, then set 27 masters world records.