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Mitch Larkin
Mitch Larkin (Mitchell James Larkin, born 1993, Buderim, Queensland), Australian backstroke swimmer; 2015 Kazan 100/200m backstroke world champion, Rio 2016 Olympic silver and bronze medallist, short course 200m backstroke world record holder (1:45.63), retired 2024.
Mitica Pricop
Mitică Pricop, Romanian sprint canoeist born 1977 in Constanța, Olympic gold C2 1000 m and bronze C2 500 m at Sydney 2000 with Florin Popescu; later a Dinamo coach.
Mitirapa
Mitirapa, formerly Mititapa, is a coastal locality and surfing park in To'ahotu, Taiarapu-Ouest, Tahiti, French Polynesia, with the 13-hectare lac de Mitirapa estuary, a beach, and a planned Google Bulikula cable landing point.
Mitja Zastrow
Mitja Zastrow (Mitja Kolia Zastrow), German-born Dutch freestyle swimmer born 1977 in Mettmann; PSV Eindhoven; Olympic silver 2004 4x100 m freestyle relay (3:14.36 NR), two-time Olympian, later NRW Para swimming coach.
Moe Sbihi
Moe Sbihi (Mohamed Karim Sbihi), born 1988, British rower, first Muslim to represent Team GB in rowing; Olympic gold in the coxless four at Rio 2016 and bronzes in the eight at London 2012 and Tokyo 2020, MBE, Tokyo flag bearer.
Moniek Nijhuis
Moniek Nijhuis (born 1988, Losser) is a retired Dutch breaststroke swimmer. Seven-time European short course champion, Dutch 50m breaststroke record holder (30.38, Rome 2009), 2014 world short course bronze medalist, London 2012 Olympian; retired 2016.
Monika Seltmann
Monika Seltmann is a German former competitive swimmer who swam for SC Dynamo Berlin in East Germany and set a 1976 world record in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.
Morgan Bolding
Morgan Bolding (born 1995, Leeds) is a British rower, men's eight specialist, Olympic gold medallist at Paris 2024, double world champion (2022, 2023) and triple European champion, rowing for Oxford Brookes University Boat Club.
Moritz von Groddeck
Moritz von Groddeck (Karl-Heinrich Erich Moritz von Groddeck, 1936-2011), West German rower; Olympic silver 1956 coxed pairs, gold 1960 eights, silver 1964 eights; 1962 world champion.
Morten Jørgensen
Morten Jørgensen (born 1985, Næstved) is a Danish rower of the Guldfireren lightweight four, winning Olympic gold 2008, bronze 2012, silver 2016, plus the 2014 world title.
Motorboating
Motorboating, also known as powerboating, is the sport of racing boats powered by internal combustion engines, contested as an Olympic medal sport only at London 1908.
Move Surfstore Podersdorf
Move Surfstore (Move KG) is a kitesurfing, windsurfing, and foil shop in Podersdorf am See, Burgenland, Austria, at Seestraße 16 and An der Promenade 2; one of Austria's largest kite shops for almost 20 years, online and offline.
Murray Rose
Murray Rose (1939–2012) was an Australian freestyle swimmer who won three gold medals at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and a fourth at Rome in 1960.
Nadja Bergknecht
Nadja Bergknecht is an East German swimmer with SC Chemie Halle who set a 1986 world record in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at Madrid, clocking 7:59.33.
NAISH
Naish: watersports equipment brand founded in 1979 in Hawaii by Robby Naish, spanning kiteboarding, windsurfing, SUP, foil and wing gear; first inflatable-strut kite licensee (1999), owned by Kubus Sports since 2023.
Nalu Surf
Nalu Surf is the shared name of unrelated surf businesses worldwide: Nalu Surf school and cafe on Jukdo Beach, Yangyang, South Korea; Nalu Surf School in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica; Nalu Surf Shop & School in Unawatuna, Sri Lanka; and Nalu Surf Bar & Grill in Delaware, USA; named from Hawaiian nalu, wave.
Nancy Garapick
Nancy Garapick (Nancy Ellen Garapick), Canadian swimmer (1961-2026) from Halifax; 1975 200m backstroke world record at 13, double backstroke bronze at Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980 boycott victim.
Nancy Hogshead
Nancy Hogshead (Hogshead-Makar), American swimmer born 1962, won three golds and a silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, including a tie for the 100 freestyle, then became a Title IX and athlete-protection attorney.
Nancy Ramey
Nancy Jane Ramey (Lethcoe), American swimmer, 1956 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 m butterfly and world record holder in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly, 1940–2022.
Naomi Castle
Naomi Castle (Naomi Sandra Castle, also Naomi McCarthy), Australian water polo defender born 1974 in Sydney; won gold at Sydney 2000, the first Olympic women's water polo tournament, and placed fourth at Athens 2004.
Nastasia Nichitov Ionescu
Nastasia Nichitov-Ionescu, born 1954 in Maliuc, Romania, is a sprint kayaker who won K4 500 m gold at Los Angeles 1984, placed fourth in the K2 at Montreal 1976 and 1984, and won six world championship medals.
Natalia Madaj
Natalia Madaj (Madaj-Smolińska), Polish rower born 1988 in Piła; Olympic gold in women's double sculls with Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska at Rio 2016, eighth in the quadruple sculls at London 2012.
Natalia Molchanova
Natalia Molchanova (Наталья Молчанова, 1962–2015), Russian freediver called the queen of freediving; 41 AIDA world records, 23 world titles, first woman to 100 m CWT and 9:02 static apnea; vanished off Formentera in 2015.
Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Coughlin (Natalie Anne Coughlin-Hall), American swimmer born 1982, won 12 Olympic medals (3 gold) at 2004, 2008, 2012, medaled in every Olympic event entered, and was first woman under one minute in the 100m backstroke.
Nataliya Dovhodko
Nataliya Dovhodko is a Ukrainian rower who won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, marking the first Olympic rowing title in the nation's history.
Nataliya Ishchenko
Nataliya Sergeyevna Ishchenko (Наталья Сергеевна Ищенко, born 1986, Smolensk) is a retired Russian artistic swimmer with five Olympic golds (2008, 2012, 2016) and 19 world titles, duet partner of Svetlana Romashina; retired 2017.
Nataliya Popova
Nataliya Popova names several athletes: a Soviet swimmer (born 1958, 1976 Olympics, 200 m butterfly finalist), a Ukrainian figure skater (born 1993, 2014 Olympics), and a Kazakhstani Olympic diver (born 1980).
Natasa Dusev Janics
Natasa Dusev-Janics (Nataša Janić, Наташа Јанић), born 1982 in Bačka Palanka, is a Hungarian sprint kayaker with three Olympic golds, two silvers, a bronze, and 19 world and 19 European titles, racing for Hungary from 2002 after debuting for Serbia and Montenegro.
Nathalie Schneyder
Nathalie Schneyder (Nathalie Schneyder-Bartleson, born 1968), American synchronized swimmer; won 1996 Atlanta Olympic team gold with the United States at 99.720 points, world titles in 1991 and 1994, and entered the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2013.
Nathan Adrian
Nathan Adrian, American sprint freestyle swimmer from Bremerton, Washington; three-time Olympian with eight Olympic medals including 2012 100m freestyle gold; 16 world championship medals; Cal-Berkeley graduate.