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Sharron Davies
Sharron Davies MBE (born 1962, Plymouth) is an English swimmer, 1980 Olympic 400m IM silver medallist, two-time Commonwealth champion, BBC swimming broadcaster, and women's sport campaigner later made a peer.
Shaun Jordan
Shaun M. Jordan (born 1968, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American swimmer who won Olympic gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992, starred for the University of Texas, and later worked at Abraham Trading.
Shaun Kirkham
Shaun Kirkham (born 1992, Hamilton, NZ) is a New Zealand rower, men's eight specialist; Rio 2016 sixth, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold in 5:24.64, NZ's first eight gold since 1972; later SK Digital founder and Toyota Boshoku player-coach.
Shavarsh Karapetyan
Shavarsh Karapetyan (Շավարշ Կարապետյան), born 1953, Soviet Armenian finswimmer, 17-time world champion, who saved 20 people from a trolleybus sunk in Lake Yerevan in 1976, ending his career.
Shayne Reese
Shayne Reese (Shayne Leanne Reese), Australian swimmer born 1982 in Ballarat, Victoria; two-time Olympian who won 2008 relay gold and bronze in Beijing and medals at Worlds, short-course Worlds, and the Commonwealth Games.
Sheila Taormina
Sheila Christine Taormina (born 1969, Livonia, Michigan) is an American swimmer, triathlete, and modern pentathlete; 1996 Olympic 4x200 freestyle relay gold medalist, 2004 ITU triathlon world champion, and first woman to qualify for Olympics in three sports.
Shelley Mann
Shelley Isabel Mann (1937–2005), American swimmer; overcame polio, won the first Olympic women's 100m butterfly gold (1:11.0, Melbourne 1956), silver in the 4x100m relay, and set butterfly and medley world records.
Shen Duo
Shen Duo (沈铎, born 1997, Liyang, Jiangsu) is a Chinese freestyle swimmer who won six golds at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympics, set world junior records of 53.84 and 1:56.12, and won Asian Games and World Championship relay golds.
Sherm Clark
Sherm Clark (Sherman Rockwell Clark, 1899-1980), American rowing coxswain and Navy rear admiral; won gold in the eights and silver in the coxed fours at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
Shi Tingmao
Shi Tingmao (施廷懋), born 1991 in Chongqing, Chinese diver; won four Olympic golds in 3m springboard and synchro at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, plus eight world titles, matching Guo Jingjing's double-double.
Shigeo Arai
Shigeo Arai (新井茂雄) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer who won relay gold and 100 m bronze at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and died in the war in 1944.
Shigeo Sugiura
Shigeo Sugiura (杉浦重雄, 1917–1988), Japanese freestyle swimmer from Hamamatsu; won 1936 Berlin Olympic gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, setting the 8:51.5 world record that stood until 1948.
Shigeyuki Maruyama
Shigeyuki Maruyama (丸山 茂幸), Japanese freestyle swimmer of the late 1940s; swam on Japan's 4x200 m freestyle relay world-record team (8:45.4, 18 August 1949, Los Angeles) with Hamaguchi, Murayama, and Furuhashi. Not the golfer Shigeki Maruyama or the 1988 Olympian Shigemori Maruyama.
Shinri Shioura
Shinri Shioura (塩浦慎理), born 1991 in Isehara, Japan, is a Japanese sprint freestyle swimmer, Asian 50 m freestyle record holder (21.67 s, 2019), and two-time Olympian (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020).
Shirley Babashoff
Shirley Babashoff (born 1957), American freestyle swimmer; eight Olympic medals (2 gold, 6 silver) at Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976; 11 world records; accused East German dopers, later vindicated by Stasi files.
Shirley Robertson
Shirley Robertson (Shirley Ann Robertson-Boag), Scottish sailor born 1968 in Dundee, two-time Olympic gold medallist (Europe, Sydney 2000; Yngling, Athens 2004), first British woman with consecutive Olympic golds, later CNN and BBC sailing broadcaster.
Shiro Hashizume
Shiro Hashizume (橋爪四郎, 1928–2023), Japanese freestyle swimmer; 1,500 m silver at Helsinki 1952 behind Ford Konno; set 800 m and 1,500 m freestyle world records in 1949; ISHOF Honor Swimmer 1992.
Sholto Carnegie
Sholto Carnegie (Sholto Hector Hawkshaw Carnegie), British rower born 1995, Leander Club; Olympic gold in the men's eight at Paris 2024, world champion 2022 and 2023, Yale graduate, Crew Connection co-founder.
Shorty Hunt
Shorty Hunt (George Elwood Hunt, Jr., 1916–1999), American rower, six seat of the University of Washington eight that won 1936 Olympic gold in Berlin; later a Seattle builder and Seabee.
Shozo Makino
Shozo Makino (牧野正蔵, 1915–1987), Japanese freestyle swimmer; silver in 1500 m at Los Angeles 1932, bronze in 400 m at Berlin 1936; held 800 m freestyle world records from 1931 to 1941. Not the film director of the same name.
Siegbert Horn
Siegbert Horn (1950–2016), East German K1 slalom canoeist; first Olympic canoe slalom champion, Munich 1972 (268.56, ahead of Norbert Sattler); world K1 champion 1971 Meran and 1975 Skopje; ASK Vorwärts Leipzig; later physiotherapist.
Siegfried Brietzke
Siegfried Brietzke, East German rower (SC DHfK Leipzig), won Olympic gold at three straight Games: coxless pairs 1972 with Mager, coxless fours 1976 and 1980; also four world titles.
Sigurd Holter
Sigurd Holter (1886–1963) was a Norwegian sailor with the KNS Oslo club who won gold in the 10-metre (1907 rating) class at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics aboard Eleda, the event's only entrant.
Sigve Lie
Sigve Lie (1906–1958), Norwegian sailor with KNS Oslo; won two Olympic gold medals in the Dragon three-person keelboat aboard Pan with Thor Thorvaldsen and Håkon Barfod at London 1948 and Helsinki 1952.
Silke Hörner
Silke Hörner (Hörner-Schuck), East German breaststroke swimmer born 1965 in Leipzig; double Olympic champion at Seoul 1988 (200 m breaststroke world record 2:26.71, 4×100 m medley relay) and 100 m bronze; set four breaststroke world records; doping allegations never proven.
Šime Fantela
Šime Fantela, Croatian sailor born 1986 in Zadar, Olympic 470 gold medalist at Rio 2016 with Igor Marenić, later 49er world champion 2018 with brother Mihovil, competing in five Olympics from 2008 to 2024.
Simion Ismailciuc
Simion Ismailciuc (1930-1986), Romanian sprint canoeist, Olympic C2 1000 m gold medalist at Melbourne 1956 with Dumitru Alexe, world champion 1958 and 1963, later coach of Ivan Patzaichin.
Simon Dennis
Simon Dennis (born 1976, Henley-on-Thames) is a British rower, MBE, who won gold in the men's eight at the 2000 Sydney Olympics; earlier bronze at the 1994 World Junior Championships; later a biology teacher and Imperial College coach.
Simon Niepmann
Simon Niepmann (born 1985) is a Swiss rower who won Olympic gold in the lightweight men's coxless four at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Simon Schurch
Simon Schürch (born 1990, Rothrist, Switzerland) is a Swiss lightweight rower of Seeclub Sursee; Olympic gold in the lightweight coxless four at Rio 2016 with Tramèr, Niepmann, and Gyr, fifth at London 2012, 2015 world and European champion.