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Jeff Float
Jeff Float (Jeffrey James Float, born 1960, Buffalo, New York) is a deaf American swimmer who won 10 golds at the 1977 World Games for the Deaf and Olympic gold in the 1984 4x200m freestyle relay world record (7:15.69).
Jeff Kostoff
Jeff Kostoff (Jeffrey James Kostoff, born 1965) is an American swimmer, two-time Olympian in the 400 IM (1984, 1988), five-time NCAA champion at Stanford, and later coach at Indiana and Stanford.
Jeff Rouse
Jeff Rouse (born 1970), American backstroke swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist (1992, 1996) and 100 m backstroke world record holder 1991–1999; Stanford NCAA champion and Hall of Famer.
Jemma Lowe
Jemma Lowe (born 1990, Hartlepool), British butterfly swimmer; Olympian 2008 and 2012, 2010 Commonwealth bronze for Wales, 2014 mixed medley relay world record holder, retired 2017.
Jenna Johnson
Jenna Leigh Johnson (Jenna Johnson-Younker), American swimmer born 1967 in Santa Rosa, California; Stanford swimmer who won two relay golds and 100 butterfly silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, plus 1986 World Championship silvers.
Jennie Fletcher
Jennie Fletcher (1890–1968), English swimmer of Leicester Ladies SC, won bronze in the 100 m freestyle and gold in the 4×100 m relay at Stockholm 1912, Britain's first women's Olympic swimming medalist.
Jennifer Chandler
Jennifer Chandler (Jennifer Kay Bellamy Chandler, born 1959) is an American diver who won 3m springboard gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, 1975 Pan Am gold, 1978 Worlds bronze, and retired at 21 after back injuries.
Jenny Armstrong
Jenny Armstrong (Jennifer Margaret Armstrong), born 1970 in Dunedin, is a New Zealand-born sailor who won 470 class gold for Australia with Belinda Stowell at Sydney 2000, the first Australian women's Olympic sailing medal, after finishing fourth for NZL at Barcelona 1992; now a Yachting NZ coach.
Jenny Kemp
Jenny Kemp (Jennifer Jo Kemp), American swimmer born 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio; Cincinnati Marlins backstroker who switched to freestyle, won 1972 Olympic gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay in world-record 3:55.19, and took 1975 Pan Am bronze in 100 m backstroke.
Jenny Thompson
Jenny Thompson (Jennifer Elisabeth Thompson, born 1973) is an American swimmer with 12 Olympic medals, 8 gold, all golds in relays, across 1992-2004; later a pediatric anesthesiologist.
Jenny Turrall
Jenny Turrall (Jenny Lynnette Turrall-Wetton), Australian swimmer born 1960, set 800m and 1500m freestyle world records as a 13-year-old, won 800m gold at the 1975 Cali World Championships, and 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games 400m freestyle gold.
Jeno Brandi
Jeno Brandi (Brandi Jenő, born Brandeiski), Hungarian water polo forward (1913-1980): Olympic gold 1936 Berlin, silver 1948 London, European champion 1934 and 1938, 61 caps, later Olympic referee and FINA official.
Jens-Peter Berndt
Jens-Peter Berndt (born 1963, Potsdam) is a German former swimmer, 400 m individual medley world record holder (4:19.61, 1984) for East Germany, who defected to the US in 1985 and swam for West Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Jeon Eun Kyung Surf School
Jeon Eun Kyung Surf School (전은경서프스쿨), Yangyang surf school on Ingu-jungang-gil 91, Hyeonnam-myeon, Gangwon; café, theory room, and guesthouse in one building; 2-hour beginner lessons with all-day board rental, 74,000 won.
Jeremie Azou
Jérémie Azou, French lightweight rower (aviron) born 1989 in Avignon; Olympic gold 2016 Rio with Pierre Houin, 4th London 2012 with Stany Delayre; two world and four European titles; retired 2017, now a physiotherapist.
Jeremy Linn
Jeremy Porter Linn (born 1975, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American former breaststroke swimmer, 1996 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 m breaststroke and gold medalist in the world-record 4x100 m medley relay; not the basketball player Jeremy Lin.
Jeremy Stravius
Jérémy Stravius, French swimmer (born 1988, Abbeville), Amiens MN club; 2012 Olympic 4x100m freestyle relay gold, 2011 Shanghai 100m backstroke co-world champion with Camille Lacourt; retired after London 2012 and Rio 2016 career.
Jerry Heidenreich
Jerry Heidenreich (Jerôme Alan Heidenreich, 1950–2002), American swimmer and SMU star who won two relay golds, 100 m freestyle silver, and 100 m butterfly bronze at the 1972 Munich Olympics, setting six world records in relays.
Jesper Bank
Jesper Bank (born 1957, Fredericia) is a Danish sailor, two-time Olympic gold medalist (Soling, 1992 and 2000) and 1988 bronze medalist, six-time world champion, America's Cup skipper, and director of Elvstrøm Sails.
Jesper Seier
Jesper Seier (born 1965, Fredericia, Denmark) is a Danish Soling sailor, Olympic gold medalist at Barcelona 1992 in the crew of skipper Jesper Bank with Steen Secher, and 1989 Soling European champion.
Jess Morrison
Jess Morrison (Jessica Morrison, born 1992, Melbourne) is an Australian rower with Mercantile Rowing Club, Olympic gold in the Tokyo 2020 women's four and bronze in the Paris 2024 pair with Annabelle McIntyre, after switching from swimming.
Jess Schipper
Jess Schipper, born 1986, is a retired Australian butterfly swimmer who won two Olympic relay golds and set world records in the 200 m butterfly.
Jesse Vassallo
Jesse Vassallo (Jesus David Vassallo Anadón), Puerto Rican-born American swimmer, 1978 World Swimmer of the Year; set 200 and 400 IM world records, won 1978 Worlds golds, missed 1980 Olympics by boycott, 1997 ISHOF inductee.
Jessica Fox (canoeist)
Jessica Esther "Jess" Fox, born 1994 in Marseille, is an Australian canoe slalom paddler with six Olympic medals (3 gold), ten world titles, and the record as Australia's most successful individual Olympic medallist.
Jessica Hardy
Jessica Hardy (Jessica Adele Hardy Meichtry, born 1987) is a retired American swimmer, 2012 Olympic gold and bronze medalist, and former 50m and 100m breaststroke world record holder who missed the 2008 Olympics on a clenbuterol positive.
Jessica Long
Jessica Tatiana Long (born Tatiana Olegovna Kirillova, 1992, Bratsk, Russia) is an American S8 Paralympic swimmer, six-time Paralympian with 30 medals including 17 gold, adopted from a Russian orphanage and raised in Baltimore.
Jessica Monroe
Jessica Monroe (Monroe-Gonin), born 1966 in Palo Alto, is a Canadian rower who won double gold in coxless fours and eights at Barcelona 1992 and eights silver at Atlanta 1996.
Jessica Steffens
Jessica Steffens (born 1987, San Francisco) is an American water polo center defender, 2008 Olympic silver and 2012 Olympic gold medalist, 2009 world champion, 2019 USA Water Polo Hall of Famer, and older sister of Maggie Steffens.
Jessica Watson
Jessica Watson (born 1993), Australian sailor who completed a 210-day solo, non-stop, unassisted circumnavigation in Ella's Pink Lady, returning 15 May 2010 at 16; Young Australian of the Year 2011, OAM 2012.
Ji Bowen
Ji Bowen (季博文, born 2002 in Zhejiang, China) is a Chinese sprint canoeist who won the C-2 500 meters gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics with Liu Hao.