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Rebecca Adlington
Rebecca (Becky) Adlington, British swimmer born 1989 in Mansfield; won 400m and 800m freestyle gold at Beijing 2008 with an 8:14.10 800m world record, plus two bronzes at London 2012; retired 2013.
Rebecca Brown
Rebecca Kate Brown (born 1977, Brisbane) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer who set the 200 m breaststroke world record (2:24.76, 1994), won the 2000 short-course world title, and placed 14th at Sydney 2000; distinct from other athletes named Rebecca Brown.
Rebecca Soni
Rebecca Soni, American breaststroke swimmer born 1987 in Freehold, New Jersey; six Olympic medals (3 gold, 3 silver) at Beijing 2008 and London 2012; first woman under 2:20 in the 200m breaststroke.
Red Rock Corindi Surf Lifesaving Club
Red Rock Corindi Surf Lifesaving Club (Red Rock Corindi SLSC), a volunteer surf life saving club at Red Rock, NSW, founded December 1991 after the 1988 drownings of Gary and Terry Wall; patrols Red Rock Beach in summer.
Reg White
Reg White (Reginald James White, 1935-2010), British yachtsman and boatbuilder of Brightlingsea; won the first Olympic Tornado catamaran gold at Montreal 1976 with John Osborn, helped design the Tornado, and founded Sailcraft.
Regan Smith
Regan Smith (born 2002, Lakeville, Minnesota) is an American swimmer, 8-time Olympic medalist (2 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze) and backstroke world-record holder (100m 57.13, 200m 2:03.35), not the NASCAR driver of the same name.
Reidar Martiniuson
Reidar Martiniuson (Johan Reidar Martiniuson, 1893–1968), Norwegian sailor and KNS member; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 8 metre (1919 rating) class aboard Sildra with Konow, Vik, and Kristoffersen.
Reiko Nakamura
Reiko Nakamura (中村礼子), born 1982 in Yokohama, Japanese backstroke swimmer; won 200 m backstroke bronze at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, held short-course world records in the 100 m (58.45) and 200 m (2:03.24).
Reinhard Eiben
Reinhard Eiben (born 1951, Crossen, Saxony) is an East German canoe slalom paddler who won the first Olympic men's C-1 gold at Munich 1972 with 315.84 points and the 1973 world C-1 title at Muotathal.
Reinhold Becker
Reinhold Becker (born 1959, Troisdorf) is a West German backstroke swimmer, SSF Bonn 1905; 20th in 100 m and 18th in 200 m backstroke at the 1976 Montréal Olympics, 1978 World medley relay silver (heats only).
Ren Qian
Ren Qian (任茜), born 2001 in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, is a Chinese diver who won the women's 10 m platform gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics at 15.
Renate Vogel
Renate Vogel (Renate Bauer, Heinrich), East German breaststroke swimmer born 1955 in Chemnitz; 1972 Olympic relay silver, triple 1973 world champion, 100 m breaststroke world record holder; defected to West Germany in 1979 and exposed GDR doping.
Renato Petronio
Renato Petronio (1891-1976), Italian rowing coxswain born in Piran, founded SN Pullino of Isola d'Istria, won coxed-four gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and four European titles.
Renco Posinkovic
Renco Posinković (Ренцо Посинковић), born 1964 in Split, Croatian water polo goalkeeper; 1988 Olympic gold with Yugoslavia, 1991 world champion, European Cup winner with Jadran 1992–93, later goalkeeper coach and journalist.
Renzo Sambo
Renzo Sambo (1942–2009), Italian rower from Treviso; Olympic gold in the coxed pair with Primo Baran and cox Bruno Cipolla at Mexico 1968, later a coach for Para-rowing.
Rex Favero
Rex Favero (born 1955), American distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Carmichael, California; 1973 world champion in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, 1975 Pan American Games 200 m freestyle bronze medalist and relay gold medalist, and 1975 club relay world record holder.
Rex Sellers
Rex Sellers: name of two athletes, New Zealand Olympic sailor Rex Samuel Sellers (born 1950, Tornado gold 1984, silver 1988 with Chris Timms) and Anglo-Indian Australian leg-spinner Reginald Hugh Durning Sellers (born 1940, one Test).
Rhi Jeffrey
Rhi Jeffrey (Rhiannon Rhae Jeffrey), American swimmer born 1986 in Delray Beach, Florida; 2004 Athens Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200m freestyle relay, 2003 double world champion, later New Hampshire club coach and Atlantis Aquatics owner.
Ria van Velsen
Ria van Velsen (Maria Martina van Velsen-Racké, 1943–2025), Dutch backstroke swimmer from Den Haag; four-time 100 m backstroke world record holder, 1962 European champion, and two-time Olympian (Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964).
Rica Reinisch
Rica Reinisch is a German former backstroke swimmer who won three Olympic gold medals for East Germany at the 1980 Moscow Games, all in world-record times, before retiring from competition at a young age.
Ricarda Funk
Ricarda Funk, German slalom kayaker (born 1992, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler), KSV Bad Kreuznach. Olympic K1 gold Tokyo 2020, world champion 2021 and 2022, five-time European champion, 2025 kayak cross World Cup champion.
Ricardo Prado
Ricardo Prado (Pradinho), Brazilian swimmer born 1965 in Andradina, São Paulo; 1984 Olympic silver medalist and 1982 world champion and world record-holder (4:19.78) in the 400 m individual medley.
Rich Saeger
Rich Saeger (Richard Erwin Saeger), American swimmer born 1964 in Rochester, New York; 1984 Olympic gold medalist as a heat swimmer on the US 4x200 m freestyle relay, also double gold at the 1982 World Championships and SMU graduate.
Rich Schroeder
Rich Schroeder (Richard Alan Schroeder, born 1961) is an American breaststroke swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay (1984 heats, 1988 final), UC Santa Barbara graduate, and 1988 world record holder.
Richard Beesly
Richard Beesly was a British rower who won Olympic gold in the coxless fours at the 1928 Amsterdam Games and rowed in three winning Cambridge Boat Race crews.
Richard Bennett
Richard John Bennett (1932-2011), Trinidad and Tobago Flying Dutchman sailor; 30th at the 1960 Rome Olympics for the West Indies Federation with Gerald Bird, 28th at Munich 1972 with David Farfan.
Richard Budgett
Richard Budgett (born 1959, Glasgow) is a British physician and Olympic rower who won coxed-four gold at Los Angeles 1984 with Steve Redgrave, then served as IOC Medical and Scientific Director 2012–2024 after leading Team GB and London 2012 medical services.
Richard Klatt
Richard Klatt is an American former swimmer who won gold and set a world record in the 4 × 200-meter freestyle relay at the 1973 World Championships.
Richard Schmidt
Richard Schmidt (born 1987, Trier) is a German rower, 2012 Olympic gold and 2016/2021 silver medalist in the men's eight, six-time world champion in the Deutschland Achter, 2024 Thomas Keller Medal recipient, now a hydrogen energy researcher at Wilo.
Rick Bockelie
Rick Marlow Bockelie (1902–1966) was a Norwegian sailor of KNS, Oslo, who won Olympic gold in the 8 metre class at Paris 1924 as crew of the yacht Bera, skippered by August Ringvold Sr.