The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Iceland
This page contains a list of the greatest Icelander Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 392 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Iceland. This makes Iceland the birth place of the 56th most number of Swimmers behind Jamaica and The Bahamas.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Icelander Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Icelander Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir (1995 - )
With an HPI of 14.10, Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir is the most famous Icelander Swimmer. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir (born 1 February 1995) is an Icelandic swimmer. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 100 metre backstroke, finishing 2nd in her heat but in 32nd place overall in the heats, failing to qualify for the semifinals. On 30 March 2015 Eygló Ósk swam the 200 m backstroke in 2:09.86 minutes, setting new Icelandic and Nordic records; the previous Icelandic record was 2:10.34, set by her herself, while the old Nordic record was 2:10.27. Her time was also below the maximum required to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, which is 2:10.60. At the Olympics, she made the final of the 200 meter backstroke.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as swimmers born between 1995 and 1995. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living swimmers include Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir. As of April 2022, 1 new swimmers have been added to Pantheon including Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir.
