The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Latvia
This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 392 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 35th most number of Swimmers behind Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Latvian Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. John Konrads (1942 - 2021)
With an HPI of 39.31, John Konrads is the most famous Latvian Swimmer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
bob Konrads (Latvian: Jānis Konrads; 21 May 1942 – 25 April 2021) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won the 1500 m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. In his career, he set 26 individual world records, and after his swimming career ended, was the Australasian director of L'Oréal, as well as campaigning for the Sydney Olympics bid. Along with his sister Ilsa, who also set multiple world records, they were known as the Konrads Kids.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as swimmers born between 1942 and 1942. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased swimmers include John Konrads. As of April 2022, 1 new swimmers have been added to Pantheon including John Konrads.
