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Amar Muralidharan
Amar Muralidharan is an Indian swimmer who has earned 6 National Titles. He held the 200 M Butterfly & Freestyle National Titles from 2000-2004. He has won a silver medal at the first Afro Asian Games held at Hyderabad India in 2003 and 3 gold medals at South Asian Games held at Islamabad Pakistan.
Anita Sood
Anita Sood-Mankar (born January 18, 1966) is a former national woman swimming champion of India. She became the fastest Asian swimmer to cross the English Channel with a time of 8 hours and 15 minutes on August 17, 1987, becoming the 333rd person to swim the channel. She was awarded Arjuna Award for her achievements.
Ankur Poseria
Ankur Poseria (born 16 March 1987) is an Indian-American swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He is an Indian record holder in the 100 m butterfly, until it was eventually broken by his fellow swimmer Virdhawal Khade at the 2009 Asia Age Group Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
Anshul Kothari
Anshul Ketan Kothari (born 17 December 1989) is an Indian competitive swimmer who has represented India in Commonwealth Games and Asian Games.
Arati Saha
Arati Gupta (born Arati Saha; 24 September 1940 – 23 August 1994) was an Indian long-distance swimmer who became the first Asian woman to swim across the English Channel on 29 September 1959, at the age of 19. In 1960, she became the first Indian sportswoman to be awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honor in India.
Arjun Muralidharan
Arjun Muralidharan (born 14 May 1987) is an Indian swimmer who has earned 15 national titles. He is widely considered as one of the greatest butterfly swimmers of India. He has also been the best swimmer in three consecutive Open National Championships from 2004–2006 and held all three (50, 100, 200 m) butterfly National titles for four years from 2004-2007 as well as all three (50, 100, 200 m) backstroke National titles in the year 2006.
Bhakti Sharma
Bhakti Sharma (born 30 November 1989) is an Indian Open water swimmer. She is the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set a record in open swimming in Antarctic waters. 14 minutes, at a temperature of 1 °C (34 °F), breaking the record of Lynne Cox (USA) and Lewis Pugh (Great Britain).
Bimal Chandra
Bimal Chandra (19 November 1927 – 17 February 1998) was an Indian swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Bula Choudhury
Bula Choudhury (born 2 January 1970 in Hugli, India) is an Indian former swimmer. She is an Arjuna awardee, Padma Shri awardee, former India national women's swimming champion and elected as MLA from 2006 to 2011 representing Nandanpur in West Bengal state of India.
Damini Gowda
Damini Gowda (born 20 February 1999) is an Indian swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. She also participated at the 2016 South Asian Games and won four gold medals.
Dhinidhi Desinghu
Dhinidhi Desinghu (born 17 May 2010) is an Indian swimmer from Karnataka. She specialises in 200m freestyle. She also competes in 100m freestyle and 200m individual medley.
Dilip Mitra
Dilip Mitra (1926–1992) was an Indian swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Dolly Nazir
Dolly Rustom Nazir nee Byramji (1935–2012) was an Indian swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Nazir won Long Distance Open Sea Championships in Bombay in 1948 at the age of 13 and repeated the win the next year.
Elvis Ali Hazarika
Elvis Ali Hazarika (born 21 December 1981) is an Indian swimmer from Assam. Hazarika started swimming at the age of one and a half and swam across Dighalipukhuri in Guwahati at the age of four. He participated in the Asia Pacific Championship at the age of nine and represented India in the SAF Games.
Gagan Ullalmath
Adaveeshaiah Puttaveeraswamy Gagan Ullalmath (Kannada: ಗಗನ್ ಉಳ್ಳಾಲಮಠ, born 8 January 1992), popularly known as Gagan Ullalmath, is an Indian swimmer. He was the only swimmer to represent India in the 2012 London Olympics. He finished 7th in heat 1 of 1500 m freestyle event with a time of 16:31:14 and was eventually knocked out at last position 31st.
Hakimuddin Habibulla
Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla (born 25 September 1979) is an Indian former swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events. He represented India at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Kanchanmala Pande
Kanchanmala D Pande is a blind international female swimmer. She has won several medals at international, National and State level since she was a child. Her current medal tally stands at 120 including 115 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze at international, national and state levels.
Khajan Singh
Khajan Singh (also Khajan Singh Tokas) (born 6 May 1964) is an Indian swimmer, who remained national swimming champion of India, and won a silver medal at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul. He was awarded an Arjuna Award by Government of India in 1984.
Maana Patel
Maana Patel (born 18 March 2000) is an Indian backstroke swimmer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Masudur Rahman Baidya
Masudur Rahman Baidya (Bengali: মাসুদুর রহমান বৈদ্য) (1968 – 26 April 2015) was an Indian swimmer who was the world's first physically disabled swimmer to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Meghana Narayan
Meghana Narayan (born 11 May 1984 in Pune, Maharashtra, India) is an international swimming champion. She was also one of India's Rhodes Scholars in 2000, and currently works as a management consultant in London.
Mihir Sen
Mihir Sen (16 November 1930 – 11 June 1997) was a famous Indian long distance swimmer and lawyer. He was the first Asian to conquer the English Channel from Dover to Calais in 1958, and did so in the fastest time (14 hrs & 45 mins). He was the only man to swim the oceans of the five continents in one calendar year (1966).
Murlikant Petkar
Murlikant Petkar (born 1 November 1944) is India's first Paralympic gold medalist. He won an individual gold medal in the 1972 Summer Paralympics, in Heidelberg, Germany. 33 seconds.
Nafisa Ali
Nafisa Ali (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈnafiˌsa ˈali]) is an Indian actress, politician, social activist, and former beauty queen. She won the Eve’s Weekly Miss India title and represented India at the Miss International pageant, where she was the second runner-up. She earned critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Junoon and Life in a...
Nalin Malik
Nalin Chandra Malik (born 1910, date of death unknown) was an Indian swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Malik also worked as a trainer at a swimming club located at Rabindra Sarobar.
Nina Venkatesh
Nina Venkatesh (born 2005) is an Indian swimmer from Karnataka. She competes in the 50m and 100m butterfly events and is the Indian record holder in both the events. She represented India in swimming at the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China.
Nisha Millet
Nisha Millet (born 20 March 1982) is a swimmer from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. An Arjuna Award winner, she was the only woman in the 2000 Sydney Olympics swim team for India.
Poorva Shetye
Poorva Kiran Shetye (born 12 March 1993), is an Indian International Swimmer, who is specialized in 50 m, 100 m and 200 m breaststroke. Poorva still holds the National Record at the National Games for 50 m Breast Stroke. Poorva was awarded Maharashtra government's most prestigious "Shiv Chhatrapati Award" in 2008 by the then Chief Minister, Prithviraj Chavan.
Prabhat Koli
Prabhat Raju Koli (born 27 July 1999) is an Indian open water swimmer based in Mumbai. In 2018, Koli was awarded with the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award, which was presented by Ramnath Kovind, the President of India. He was also awarded with Shiv Chhatrapati Award by the Maharashtra government.
Prafulla Mullick
Prafulla Mullick (1919–1974) was an Indian swimmer. He competed in the men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Prasanta Karmakar
Prasana Karmakar is an Indian Para swimmer. He won 2 Bronze medals in 2014 Incheon Asian Games. He is also known for representing India as the swimming team coach for 2016 RIO Paralympic games.
Rehan Poncha
Rehan Jahangir Poncha (born 3 August 1986) is an Indian former swimmer, Olympian, Arjuna Award winner and a six-time national champion, who specialized in backstroke, butterfly, and individual medley events. He is also the recipient of the Eklavya Award from the Karnataka Olympic Association. He is a 6-time Indian swimming champion, and a 6-time record holder in the butterfly (both 100 and 200 m).
Rohit Havaldar
Rohit Rajendra Havaldar (born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India) is an Indian swimmer. Rohit Havaldar has achieved many swimming records and has won many medals both at the nationals and state competitions. He competed in Telstra grand prix Olympic trials in July.
Rupali Repale
Rupali Ramdas Repale (born 3 February 1982 in Mumbai), is an Indian open-water long-distance swimmer and triathlete. She swam the English Channel in the solo swim category on 15 August 1994 in a time span of 16 hours and 7 minutes, making her the youngest successful swimmer (12 years old) to cross the English Channel for the year 1994. She swam a total of seven straits during the course of her swimming career, Gibraltar Strait, Palk Strait, Bass Strait, Cook Strait, Robben Island Channel and Mumbai-Dharamtar Channel.
Sajan Prakash
Sajan Prakash (born 14 September 1993) is an Indian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, butterfly and medley events. He represented India at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the 200 m butterfly event. 38.
Sandeep Sejwal
Sandeep Sejwal (born 23 January 1989) is an Indian swimmer who has participated in Olympics 2008. He contested in the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events at the 2010 Asian Juniors in Beijing, but did not reach the finals in both events. He won the bronze medal in 2014 Asian Games in 50 m breaststroke.
Sangeeta Puri
Sangeeta Puri (born 4 December 1979) is a former swimmer who competed for India in the Olympic Games and Trinidad and Tobago at the Pan American Games. She was the first female swimmer to represent India in the Olympics, breaking the glass ceiling for future female swimmers in India to compete at that level. 68, which was a national record for Trinidad and Tobago for over 23 years.
Sayani Ghosh
Sayani Ghosh (born 13 January 1999) is an Indian competitive swimmer. She won a gold medal in the 400-metre individual medley at the 2016 South Asian Games. Her primary disciplines are the individual medley and breaststroke.
Sebastian Xavier
Sebastian Xavier (born 10 February 1970) is a former Indian swimmer from Kerala.
Shamsher Khan
Shamsher Khan (1933 – 15 October 2017) was an Indian swimmer who represented India in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1954, he made a national record in the 200-meter butterfly event. He broke the existing national record at the national meet in Bangalore in 1955.
Sharath Gayakwad
Sharath M. Gayakwad is an Indian Paralympic swimmer from Bangalore. At the 2014 Asian Games, he broke P.T. Usha's record for most number of medals by an Indian at any multi-discipline Event by winning 6 medals.
Shikha Tandon
Shikha Tandon (born 20 January 1985) is an Indian former swimmer from Bangalore, India. Tandon has won 146 national medals, and 36 medals in international competitions, including five gold medals. Currently, she is a member of USADA’s science team, assisting in the daily operation, development, and maintenance of the resources, reporting, and projects critical to USADA’s scientific initiatives.
Shivani Kataria
Shivani Kataria (born 27 September 1997) is an Indian swimmer. She competes in the women's 200m freestyle. She represented India at 2016 Summer Olympics .
Shrichand Bajaj
Shrichand Bajaj (1 October 1933 – 20 July 2005) was an Indian swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Srihari Nataraj
Srihari Nataraj (born 16 January 2001) is an Indian swimmer. A two time Olympian, he has represented India at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics. As of 2025, he holds 14 Indian national swimming records across different events.
Supra Singhal
Supra Agarwal née Singhal (born 2 March 1982, in Kampala) is a former Ugandan-Indian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She competed in the women's 100 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Supriya Mondal
Supriya Mondal (born 12 January 1997) is an Indian swimmer and trains at the Dolphin Academy, Bangalore under coach Nihar Ameen who has trained Olympians like Virdhawal Khade and Sandeep Sejwal. Srikanth is supported by the GoSports Foundation, Bangalore and has been part of their scholarship programme since 2012.
Taranath Narayan Shenoy
Taranath Narayan Shenoy, is a deaf and visually impaired Indian swimmer and an honoree of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. He is a winner of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, having successfully completed the English Channel, Catalina Channel and the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri in 1990.