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The Most Famous

SWIMMERS from Panama

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This page contains a list of the greatest Panamanian Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 392 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Panama. This makes Panama the birth place of the 32nd most number of Swimmers behind Switzerland and Malawi.

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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 41.21, Adelaide Lambert is the most famous Panamanian Swimmer.  Her biography has been translated into 15 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 who earned a gold medal as a member of winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics, setting a new world record in the process. Lambert was the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) champion in freestyle, backstroke, and the individual medley events.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as swimmers born between 1907 and 1907. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased swimmers include Adelaide Lambert. As of April 2022, 1 new swimmers have been added to Pantheon including Adelaide Lambert.

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