The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Faroe Islands
This page contains a list of the greatest Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 392 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Faroe Islands. This makes Faroe Islands the birth place of the 51st most number of Swimmers behind Martinique and French Guiana.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Pál Joensen (1990 - )
With an HPI of 21.78, Pál Joensen is the most famous Swimmer. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Pál Joensen (born 10 December 1990) is a Faroese elite swimmer. He was born in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. He has won World and European Championship medals. His bronze medal in the men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Istanbul was the first medal won by a Faroese swimmer at the World Aquatic Championships. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics for Denmark in three events: 400 metre freestyle, 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay and 1500 metre freestyle. As a Faroese athlete, he competed for Denmark as the Faroe Islands do not have a separate Olympic body. Joensen holds many of the national swimming records for the Faroe Islands; and these records are not only in freestyle. In short course swimming he holds most of the records in breaststroke, butterfly and individual medley too.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as swimmers born between 1990 and 1990. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living swimmers include Pál Joensen.
