The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 392 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 41st most number of Swimmers behind Slovakia and Philippines.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Swimmers of all time. This list of famous South Korean Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Park Tae-hwan (1989 - )
With an HPI of 30.83, Park Tae-hwan is the most famous South Korean Swimmer. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Park Tae-hwan (Korean: 박태환; Hanja: 朴泰桓, Korean pronunciation: [pak̚.tʰɛ̝.ɦwan]; born September 27, 1989) is a South Korean competitive swimmer who is an Olympic gold medalist and world champion. He has four Olympic medals, five world titles, and 20 Asian Games medals. He won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle and a silver in the 200-meter freestyle events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also won two silver medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 200- and 400-meter freestyle. He is the first Asian swimmer to claim a gold medal in the men's 400-meter freestyle, and the first-ever South Korean swimmer to win any Olympic medal in swimming. He also holds 3 Asian Records, all in Men's Freestyle. He is best known for his impressive range and versatility, as he is able to compete at international level in 100-, 200-, 400- and 1,500-meter freestyle.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as swimmers born between 1989 and 1989. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living swimmers include Park Tae-hwan.
