The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Argentina
This page contains a list of the greatest Argentinean Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 392 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Argentina. This makes Argentina the birth place of the 48th most number of Swimmers behind Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Argentinean Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Argentinean Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Georgina Bardach (1983 - )
With an HPI of 24.96, Georgina Bardach is the most famous Argentinean Swimmer. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Georgina Bardach Martin (born August 18, 1983 in Córdoba) is a swimmer from Argentina. At the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships in Moscow, she finished third in the 400 m Individual Medley race. She also won the gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won the bronze medal in the Women's 400 m Individual Medley competition. Her time was 4:37.51. Bardach also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 2008 Olympics in Beijing and 2012 Olympics in London but did not advance out of the preliminary heats. Georgina won the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. At the Brazilian Swimming Championship of May 2006, Georgina broke the South American record for 200 meters backstroke in long course swim pools with 2:17.033 seconds, 6 milliseconds ahead of Fabíola Molina's 1997 mark. In 2010 she was granted the Platinum Konex Award as the best swimmer of the last decade in Argentina.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as swimmers born between 1983 and 1983. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living swimmers include Georgina Bardach.
