The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from The Bahamas
This page contains a list of the greatest Bahamian Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 709 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in The Bahamas. This makes The Bahamas the birth place of the 55th most number of Swimmers behind United Arab Emirates, and Jamaica.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bahamian Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Bahamian Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace (b. 1990)
With an HPI of 22.47, Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace is the most famous Bahamian Swimmer. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace (born March 4, 1990) is a competitive swimmer and national record-holder from the Bahamas who has represented her country in international championships, including the Olympics, FINA world championships, and Pan American Games. She swam for the Bahamas at the 2008 Olympics and was the first Bahamian ever to make the final of their event. She attended Auburn University in the United States, where she swam for the Auburn Tigers swimming and diving team in collegiate competition. At the 2007 Pan American Games she was part of the bronze medal winning women's 4 × 100 m medley relay alongside Alicia Lightbourne, Nikia Deveaux and Alana Dillette. She is a graduate of swimming powerhouse The Bolles School. She retired from competitive swimming in 2018. She is the daughter of Bahamian politician Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace.
2. Izaak Bastian (b. 2001)
With an HPI of 0.00, Izaak Bastian is the 2nd most famous Bahamian Swimmer. His biography has been translated into different languages.
Izaak Ziven Sayid Golding Bastian (born 3 January 2001) is a Bahamian swimmer. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics. He competed at the collegiate level for Florida State University. At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in July and August in Birmingham, England, Bastian served as a flag bearer for the Bahamas at the Opening Ceremony. Two days later, as part of swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he placed 23rd in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 1:04.07. On 1 August, he swam a time of 28.74 seconds in the preliminaries of the 50 metre breaststroke and placed 20th overall. Upon graduating from Florida State University in 2022, Izaak was enrolled in the Doctorate of Physical Therapy program at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is on track to graduate with his doctorate in 2025 and has a professional interest in completing an Orthopedic residency the year following.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Bahamian swimmers born between 1990 and 2001. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bahamian swimmers include Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, and Izaak Bastian. As of April 2024, 1 new Bahamian swimmers have been added to Pantheon including Izaak Bastian.
