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The Top Ranked
Swimmers of the 1920s
Rnk |
Athlete |
Nation |
1 |
Johnny Weissmuller |
USA |
2 |
Norman Ross |
USA |
3 |
Hakan Malmrot |
Sweden |
4 |
Warren Paoa Kealoha |
USA |
5 |
Arne Borg |
Sweden |
6 |
Boy Charlton |
Australia |
7 |
Duke Kahanamoku |
USA |
8 |
Alberto Zorrilla |
Argentina |
9 |
George Kojac |
USA |
10 |
Bob Skelton |
USA |
11 |
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta |
Japan |
12 |
Thor Henning |
Sweden |
13 |
George Vernot |
Canada |
14 |
Paul Wyatt |
USA |
15 |
Walter Laufer |
USA |
16 |
Ludy Langer |
USA |
17 |
Istvan Barany |
Hungary |
18 |
Joseph De Combe |
Belgium |
19 |
Erich Rademacher |
Germany |
20 |
Pua Kele Kealoha |
USA |
21 |
Ray Kegeris |
USA |
22 |
Frank Beaurepaire |
Australia |
23 |
Arvo Aaltonen |
Finland |
24 |
Katsuo Takaishi |
Japan |
25 |
Gerard Blitz |
Belgium |
26 |
Buster Crabbe |
USA |
27 |
Bill Harris |
USA |
28 |
Bill Kirschbaum |
USA |
29 |
Karoly Bartha |
Hungary |
30 |
Sam Kahanamoku |
USA |
31 |
Teofilo Yldefonso |
Philippines |
32 |
John Hatfield |
Great Britain |
33 |
Fred Kahele |
USA |
34 |
Jack Howell |
USA |
35 |
Ake Borg |
Sweden |
36 |
Ray Ruddy |
USA |
37 |
Bengt Linders |
Sweden |
38 |
Erwin Sietas |
Germany |
39 |
Perry McGillivray |
USA |
40 |
Toshio Irie |
Japan |
41 |
William Herald |
Australia |
42 |
Ivan Stedman |
Australia |
43 |
Per Cederblom |
Sweden |
44 |
Robert Wyss |
Switzerland |
45 |
Austin Clapp |
USA |
46 |
Austin Rawlinson |
Great Britain |
47 |
Erik Harling |
Sweden |
48 |
Ernst Kuppers |
Germany |
49 |
Eugene Bolden |
USA |
50 |
Harold Kruger |
USA |
51 |
Harold Annison |
Great Britain |
52 |
Emil Zeibig |
France |
53 |
Walter Spence |
Canada |
54 |
Garnet Ault |
Canada |
55 |
Mike McDermott |
USA |
56 |
Ernest Henry |
Australia |
57 |
Gaspard Lemaire |
Belgium |
58 |
Jack Besford |
Great Britain |
59 |
Lester Smith |
USA |
60 |
Olle Dickson |
Sweden |
61 |
George Hodgson |
Canada |
62 |
Orvar Trolle |
Sweden |
63 |
Nobuo Arai |
Japan |
64 |
Henry Taylor |
Great Britain |
65 |
Munroe Bourne |
Canada |
66 |
Adam Smith |
USA |
67 |
Agostino Frassinetti |
Italy |
68 |
Alfred Pycock |
Great Britain |
69 |
Asbjorn Wang |
Norway |
70 |
Edward Maw |
Great Britain |
71 |
Frigyes Hollosi |
Hungary |
72 |
George Webster |
Great Britain |
73 |
Giuseppe Perentin |
Italy |
74 |
Giyo Saito |
Japan |
75 |
Henri Demieville |
Switzerland |
76 |
James Worthington |
Great Britain |
77 |
Karl Schafer |
Austria |
78 |
Tom Boast |
Australia |
79 |
Rezso Wanie |
Hungary |
80 |
August Heitmann |
Germany |
81 |
Vaclav Antos |
Czechoslovakia |
82 |
Percy Peter |
Great Britain |
83 |
Reggie Flint |
Great Britain |
84 |
Lucien Lebaillif |
France |
85 |
Eskil Lundahl |
Sweden |
86 |
Herbert Heinrich |
Germany |
87 |
Antal Gaborfi |
Hungary |
88 |
Clayton Bourne |
Canada |
89 |
Daniel Lehu |
France |
90 |
Francisco Uranga |
Argentina |
91 |
Henri Matter |
France |
92 |
Hiroshi Yoneyama |
Japan |
93 |
John McDowall |
Great Britain |
94 |
Knut Olsen |
Norway |
95 |
Paul Neeckx |
Belgium |
96 |
Sven Thaulow |
Norway |
97 |
Takaji Takebayashi |
Japan |
98 |
Thomas Blankenburg |
USA |
99 |
Vaclav Buchacek |
Czechoslovakia |
100 |
Zoltan Bitskey |
Hungary |
101 |
George Robertson |
Great Britain |
102 |
Keith Kirkland |
Australia |
103 |
Edouard Van Haelen |
Belgium |
104 |
Stephen Ruddy |
USA |
105 |
Edouard Henry |
Belgium |
106 |
William Stoney |
Great Britain |
107 |
Felicien Courbet |
Belgium |
108 |
Kenkichi Saito |
Japan |
109 |
Antonio Conelli |
Italy |
110 |
Emilio Polli |
Italy |
111 |
John P. Taylor |
Great Britain |
112 |
Karl Schubert |
Germany |
113 |
Leen Korpershoek |
Netherlands |
114 |
Leon Tallon |
France |
115 |
Louis Van Parijs |
Belgium |
116 |
Willie Francis |
Great Britain |
117 |
Moss Christie |
Australia |
118 |
Kazuo Noda |
Japan |
119 |
Harry Hay |
Australia |
120 |
Salvator Pellegry |
France |
121 |
Adan Gordon |
Panama |
122 |
Gustave Klein |
France |
123 |
Albert Vandeplancke |
France |
124 |
Dick Howell |
USA |
125 |
Erik Skoglund |
Sweden |
126 |
Henk van Essen |
Netherlands |
127 |
Norman Brooks |
Great Britain |
128 |
Paul De Backer |
Belgium |
129 |
Per Holmstrom |
Sweden |
130 |
Ralph Breyer |
USA |
131 |
Reg Sutton |
Great Britain |
132 |
Renato Bacigalupo |
Italy |
133 |
Rudolf Piowaty |
Czechoslovakia |
134 |
Sven Pettersson |
Sweden |
135 |
Dionysios Vasilopoulos |
Greece |
136 |
Viktor Legat |
Czechoslovakia |
137 |
Jimmy Thompson |
Canada |
138 |
Gilio Bisagno |
Italy |
139 |
Masaren Uchida |
Japan |
140 |
Aart van Wilgenburg |
Netherlands |
141 |
Aladar Bitskey |
Hungary |
142 |
Albert Schumburg |
Germany |
143 |
Atilije Venturini |
Yugoslavia |
144 |
Bo Johnsson |
Sweden |
145 |
Clarrie Heard |
New Zealand |
146 |
Cor Zegger |
Netherlands |
147 |
Dick de Man |
Netherlands |
148 |
Frans Moller |
Sweden |
149 |
Henri Bouvier |
France |
150 |
Jean-Pierre Moris |
Luxembourg |
151 |
Len Moorhouse |
New Zealand |
152 |
Marton Sipos |
Hungary |
153 |
Paul Vasseur |
France |
154 |
Pieter van Senus |
Netherlands |
155 |
Rex Lassam |
Great Britain |
156 |
Edouard van Zeveren |
France |
157 |
Emile Arbogast |
France |
158 |
Kazuo Onoda |
Japan |
159 |
Charles Quimby |
USA |
160 |
Georg Werner |
Sweden |
161 |
Herbert Taylor |
USA |
162 |
Jack Aubin |
Canada |
163 |
Julius Balaz |
Czechoslovakia |
164 |
Ko Korsten |
Netherlands |
165 |
Theodore Michel |
Luxembourg |
166 |
Torahiko Miyahata |
Japan |
167 |
William Rozier |
France |
168 |
Yuki Mawatari |
Japan |
169 |
David Lindsay |
New Zealand |
170 |
Walter Handschuhmacher |
Germany |
171 |
Henri Padou Sr. |
France |
172 |
Angelo Gammaro |
Brazil |
173 |
Friedel Berges |
Germany |
174 |
Jean van Silfhout |
Netherlands |
175 |
John Dickin |
Great Britain |
176 |
Mario Massa |
Italy |
177 |
Paolo Costoli |
Italy |
178 |
Alfred Steen |
Norway |
179 |
Alois Hrasek |
Czechoslovakia |
180 |
Giovanni Gambi |
Italy |
181 |
Eugene Kuborn |
Luxembourg |
182 |
Tsunenobu Ishida |
Japan |
183 |
Antonio Quarantotto |
Italy |
184 |
Duro Senderdi |
Yugoslavia |
185 |
Gerlacus Moes |
Netherlands |
186 |
Hans Drexler |
Switzerland |
187 |
Jean Rebeyrol |
France |
188 |
Joaquin Cuadrada |
Spain |
189 |
Johann Schulz |
Germany |
190 |
Maurice Ducos |
France |
191 |
Roland Johansson |
Sweden |
192 |
Shourai Kimura |
Japan |
193 |
Viljo Wiklund |
Finland |
194 |
Eduard Stibor |
Czechoslovakia |
195 |
Sydney Gooday |
Canada |
196 |
Ernst Budig |
Germany |
197 |
Hugh Smith |
Great Britain |
198 |
Jose Francesch |
Spain |
199 |
Taburan Tamse |
Philippines |
200 |
Jean Taris |
France |
201 |
Luis Balcells |
Spain |
202 |
Pedro Mendez |
Spain |
203 |
Rene Ricolfi-Doria |
Switzerland |
204 |
Martial Van Schelle |
Belgium |
205 |
Charles Baillee |
Great Britain |
206 |
Charles Kopp |
Switzerland |
207 |
Emanuel Prull |
Czechoslovakia |
208 |
Georges Pouilley |
France |
209 |
Geza Szigritz |
Hungary |
210 |
Leon Pesch |
Luxembourg |
211 |
Remi Weil |
France |
212 |
Rene Paulus |
France |
213 |
William Broderick |
Ireland |
214 |
Ante Roje |
Yugoslavia |
215 |
Henry Luning |
USA |
216 |
Tage Wissnell |
Sweden |
217 |
Stanislav Bicak |
Czechoslovakia |
218 |
Emerico Biach |
Italy |
219 |
Ernest Parker |
Great Britain |
220 |
Jaroslav Muller |
Czechoslovakia |
221 |
Luciano Trolli |
Italy |
222 |
Marius Zwiller |
France |
223 |
Pierre Lavraie |
France |
224 |
Sjaak Kohler |
Netherlands |
225 |
Faelo Zuniga |
Chile |
226 |
Jose Gonzalez |
Spain |
227 |
M. Astaburuaga |
Chile |
228 |
Albert Dickin |
Great Britain |
229 |
Arthur Watts |
Great Britain |
230 |
Ge Dekker |
Netherlands |
231 |
Hernan Tellez |
Chile |
232 |
Jean Jenni |
Switzerland |
233 |
Jose Manuel Pinillo |
Spain |
234 |
Leslie Savage |
Great Britain |
235 |
Pieter Jacobszoon |
Netherlands |
236 |
Vlado Smokvina |
Yugoslavia |
237 |
Georges Vallerey Sr. |
France |
238 |
Ivo Pavelic |
Yugoslavia |
239 |
Mario Marques |
Portugal |
240 |
Hernan Schuler |
Chile |
241 |
Wladyslaw Kuncewicz |
Poland |
242 |
Orlando Amendola |
Brazil |
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