The Most Famous

SWIMMERS from Vietnam

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This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 709 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Vietnam. This makes Vietnam the birth place of the 84th most number of Swimmers behind Martinique, and United Arab Emirates.

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

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1. Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên (b. 1996)

With an HPI of 31.28, Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên is the most famous Vietnamese Swimmer.  Her biography has been translated into 10 different languages on wikipedia.

Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên (born November 9, 1996, in Cần Thơ) is a Vietnamese swimmer. She swam for Vietnam at the 2016 Olympics. At the 2014 Asian Games, she won Vietnam's first-ever medal in swimming. She has been named Vietnam's Athlete of the Year in both 2013 and 2014. By the end of 2014, she holds the Vietnamese records in 14 of the 17 long-course individual events. At the 2012 Olympics, she swam the 200 Backstroke and the 400 Individual Medley. In addition to her competitive swimming career, Ánh Viên also serves in the Vietnamese army in the rank of major.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Vietnamese swimmers born between 1996 and 1996. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Vietnamese swimmers include Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên. As of April 2024, 1 new Vietnamese swimmers have been added to Pantheon including Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên.

Living Vietnamese Swimmers

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Newly Added Vietnamese Swimmers (2024)

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