The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Seychelles
This page contains a list of the greatest Seychellois Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 709 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Seychelles. This makes Seychelles the birth place of the 115th most number of Swimmers behind Syria, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Seychellois Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Seychellois Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Felicity Passon (b. 1999)
With an HPI of 12.32, Felicity Passon is the most famous Seychellois Swimmer. Her biography has been translated into 5 different languages on wikipedia.
Felicity Elizabeth Passon (born 11 July 1999) is a Seychellois swimmer. She competed in the women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. She represented Seychelles at the 2019 African Games, winning two gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal, and qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Felicity Passon completed a 15-kilometre swim challenge in April 2021 to raise funds for mental health awareness and support. It took her 4 hours 6 minutes to swim from La Digue to Praslin, Seychelles' third and second most populated islands, and then back to La Digue. She competed at the collegiate level for the University of Arizona in 2021. In March 2024, Felicity Passon was crowned Seychelles' Sportswoman of the Year 2023. The next year, in July 2024, the Seychelles Aquatic Federation announced her retirement from professional swimming.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Seychellois swimmers born between 1999 and 1999. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Seychellois swimmers include Felicity Passon. As of April 2024, 1 new Seychellois swimmers have been added to Pantheon including Felicity Passon.
