The Most Famous

SWIMMERS from Panama

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This page contains a list of the greatest Panamanian Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 709 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Panama. This makes Panama the birth place of the 76th most number of Swimmers behind Egypt, and Thailand.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Panamanian Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Panamanian Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Adelaide Lambert (1907 - 1996)

With an HPI of 55.02, Adelaide Lambert is the most famous Panamanian Swimmer.  Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.

Adelaide T. Lambert (October 27, 1907 – April 17, 1996), also known by her married name Adelaide Ballard, was an American competition swimmer for the Women's Swimming Association of New York, who earned a gold medal at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, setting a world record in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay. She set a number of American swimming records, and set a world record in February, 1927, during the Women’s National AAU Indoor Swimming Championships in Buffalo, New York, in the 300-yard medley of 4:34.4.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Panamanian swimmers born between 1907 and 1907. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Panamanian swimmers include Adelaide Lambert.

Deceased Panamanian Swimmers

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