The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Malawi
This page contains a list of the greatest Malawian Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 392 Swimmers, 2 of which were born in Malawi. This makes Malawi the birth place of the 31st most number of Swimmers behind Slovenia and Switzerland.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Malawian Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Malawian Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Cate Campbell (1992 - )
With an HPI of 24.06, Cate Campbell is the most famous Malawian Swimmer. Her biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
Cate Natalie Campbell, (born 20 May 1992) is a Malawian-born Australian competitive swimmer, and a current multiple world record holder, who won two bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a gold and a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the current world record holder in the Long Course 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay with Team Australia and the short course 100 m freestyle. Campbell was one of the flagbearers for Australia at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics alongside basketball player Patty Mills. She is coached by Simon Cusack at the Commercial Swimming Club.
2. Bronte Campbell (1994 - )
With an HPI of 21.94, Bronte Campbell is the 2nd most famous Malawian Swimmer. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages.
Bronte Campbell (born 14 May 1994) is a Malawian-born Australian competitive swimmer, a dual Olympic gold-medal winner and world champion. Her older sister, Cate, is also a competitive swimmer, and once held world records in both the short and long course 100 metre individual freestyle events. Bronte and Cate are the first Australian siblings on the same Olympic swimming team since the 1972 Olympics and the first Australian sisters ever to compete within the same swimming event at the Olympics. Bronte Campbell won three gold medals at the 2015 World Championships, including the 50 and 100 metre freestyle events.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as swimmers born between 1992 and 1994. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living swimmers include Cate Campbell and Bronte Campbell.
