The Top Ranked Swimmers of the 1970s
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The Top Ranked Swimmers of the 1970s
| Rnk | Athlete | Nation |
| 1 | Mark Spitz | USA |
| 2 | John Hencken | USA |
| 3 | John Naber | USA |
| 4 | Roland Matthes | East Germany |
| 5 | Gunnar Larsson | Sweden |
| 6 | Brian Goodell | USA |
| 7 | David Wilkie | Great Britain |
| 8 | Nobutaka Taguchi | Japan |
| 9 | Jim Montgomery | USA |
| 10 | Brad Cooper | Australia |
| 11 | Mike Bruner | USA |
| 12 | Bruce Furniss | USA |
| 13 | Matt Vogel | USA |
| 14 | Rod Strachan | USA |
| 15 | Tim McKee | USA |
| 16 | Mike Stamm | USA |
| 17 | Peter Rocca | USA |
| 18 | Steve Genter | USA |
| 19 | Gary Hall | USA |
| 20 | Jerry Heidenreich | USA |
| 21 | Bruce Robertson | Canada |
| 22 | Graham Windeatt | Australia |
| 23 | Joe Bottom | USA |
| 24 | Bobby Hackett | USA |
| 25 | Jack Babashoff | USA |
| 26 | Steve Gregg | USA |
| 27 | Tim Shaw | USA |
| 28 | Tom Bruce | USA |
| 29 | Andras Hargitay | Hungary |
| 30 | Werner Lampe | West Germany |
| 31 | Steve Furniss | USA |
| 32 | Vladimir Bure | Soviet Union |
| 33 | John Murphy | USA |
| 34 | Mitch Ivey | USA |
| 35 | Rick Colella | USA |
| 36 | Steve Holland | Australia |
| 37 | Arvydas Juozaitis | Soviet Union |
| 38 | Peter Nocke | West Germany |
| 39 | Andrey Smirnov | Soviet Union |
| 40 | Bill Forrester | USA |
| 41 | Dan Harrigan | USA |
| 42 | Doug Northway | USA |
| 43 | Robin Backhaus | USA |
| 44 | Tom McBreen | USA |
| 45 | Volodymyr Raskatov | Soviet Union |
| 46 | Jorge Delgado Jr. | Ecuador |
| 47 | Klaus Steinbach | West Germany |
| 48 | Roger Pyttel | East Germany |
| 49 | Bengt Gingsjo | Sweden |
| 50 | Graham Smith | Canada |
| 51 | Djan Madruga | Brazil |
| 52 | Mike Wenden | Australia |
| 53 | Andrey Krylov | Soviet Union |
| 54 | Mark Tonelli | Australia |
| 55 | Carlos Berrocal | Puerto Rico |
| 56 | Mark Chatfield | USA |
| 57 | Brian Brinkley | Great Britain |
| 58 | Walter Kusch | West Germany |
| 59 | Lutz Wanja | East Germany |
| 60 | Mark Kerry | Australia |
| 61 | Hans Fassnacht | West Germany |
| 62 | Graham White | Australia |
| 63 | Clay Evans | Canada |
| 64 | Igor Grivennikov | Soviet Union |
| 65 | Giorgio Lalle | Italy |
| 66 | Marcello Guarducci | Italy |
| 67 | Michael Kraus | West Germany |
| 68 | Felipe Munoz | Mexico |
| 69 | Vladimir Salnikov | Soviet Union |
| 70 | Charles Keating | USA |
| 71 | Dave Edgar | USA |
| 72 | Fred Tyler | USA |
| 73 | Miloslav Rolko | Czechoslovakia |
| 74 | Mark Treffers | New Zealand |
| 75 | Jose Sylvio Fiolo | Brazil |
| 76 | Sandor Nagy | Hungary |
| 77 | Mikhail Sukharev | Soviet Union |
| 78 | Hideaki Hara | Japan |
| 79 | Max Metzker | Australia |
| 80 | Byron MacDonald | Canada |
| 81 | Bob Jackson | USA |
| 82 | Lothar Noack | East Germany |
| 83 | Zoltan Verraszto | Hungary |
| 84 | Hartmut Flockner | East Germany |
| 85 | Nikolay Pankin | Soviet Union |
| 86 | Neil Rogers | Australia |
| 87 | Robert Rudolf | Hungary |
| 88 | Juan Carlos Bello | Peru |
| 89 | Michel Rousseau | France |
| 90 | Gordon Downie | Great Britain |
| 91 | Andy Ritchie | Canada |
| 92 | Duncan Goodhew | Great Britain |
| 93 | Igor Cherdakov | Soviet Union |
| 94 | Jurgen Kruger | East Germany |
| 95 | Paul Hartloff | USA |
| 96 | Vladimir Mikheyev | Soviet Union |
| 97 | Wolfram Sperling | East Germany |
| 98 | Tadashi Honda | Japan |
| 99 | Guillermo Garcia | Mexico |
| 100 | Klaus Katzur | East Germany |
| 101 | Zoltan Wladar | Hungary |
| 102 | Jean-Paul Berjeau | France |
| 103 | Ralph Hutton | Canada |
| 104 | Andrey Bogdanov | Soviet Union |
| 105 | HaJo Geisler | West Germany |
| 106 | Stephen Badger | Canada |
| 107 | Oleksandr Manachynskiy | Soviet Union |
| 108 | Hans Ljungberg | Sweden |
| 109 | Rick DeMont | USA |
| 110 | Chris Woo | USA |
| 111 | Folkert Meeuw | West Germany |
| 112 | Ricardo Marmolejo | Mexico |
| 113 | John Mills | Great Britain |
| 114 | Jim Carter | Great Britain |
| 115 | John McConnochie | New Zealand |
| 116 | Roberto Pangaro | Italy |
| 117 | Neil Martin | Australia |
| 118 | Bill Sawchuk | Canada |
| 119 | Stephen Pickell | Canada |
| 120 | Georgijs Kulikovs | Soviet Union |
| 121 | Sean Maher | Great Britain |
| 122 | Bill Mahony | Canada |
| 123 | Ton van Klooster | Netherlands |
| 124 | Bob Kasting | Canada |
| 125 | Bob Schoutsen | Netherlands |
| 126 | Christian Lietzmann | East Germany |
| 127 | Peter Bruch | East Germany |
| 128 | Peter Lang | West Germany |
| 129 | Vladimir Kosinsky | Soviet Union |
| 130 | Ejvind Pedersen | Denmark |
| 131 | Anders Norling | Sweden |
| 132 | Viktor Sharygin | Soviet Union |
| 133 | Yasuhiro Komazaki | Japan |
| 134 | Wilfried Hartung | East Germany |
| 135 | Colin Cunningham | Great Britain |
| 136 | Glenn Patching | Australia |
| 137 | Anatoly Smirnov | Soviet Union |
| 138 | Aigars Kudis | Soviet Union |
| 139 | Brian Job | USA |
| 140 | Daryl Skilling | Canada |
| 141 | Jose Roberto Aranha | Brazil |
| 142 | Lawrence Dowler | USA |
| 143 | Leif Ericsson | Sweden |
| 144 | Paul Nash | Australia |
| 145 | Pierre Andraca | France |
| 146 | Robert Nay | Australia |
| 147 | Sergey Koplyakov | Soviet Union |
| 148 | Valentin Parinov | Soviet Union |
| 149 | Jorge Jaramillo | Colombia |
| 150 | Anders Bellbring | Sweden |
| 151 | Gerardo Vera | Venezuela |
| 152 | Bruce Featherston | Australia |
| 153 | Brett Naylor | New Zealand |
| 154 | Frank Pfutze | East Germany |
| 155 | Rene van der Kuil | Netherlands |
| 156 | Casey Converse | USA |
| 157 | George Nagy | Canada |
| 158 | Thomas Aretz | West Germany |
| 159 | Romulo Arantes Filho | Brazil |
| 160 | Nenad Milos | Yugoslavia |
| 161 | Alan McClatchey | Great Britain |
| 162 | Igor Omelchenko | Soviet Union |
| 163 | Henk Elzerman | Netherlands |
| 164 | Peter Dawson | Australia |
| 165 | Peter Rosenkranz | West Germany |
| 166 | Anders Sandberg | Sweden |
| 167 | Tsuyoshi Yanagidate | Japan |
| 168 | Axel Freudenberg | East Germany |
| 169 | Bernard Combet | France |
| 170 | Bill Kennedy | Canada |
| 171 | Brian Phillips | Canada |
| 172 | David Parker | Great Britain |
| 173 | Erik Fish | Canada |
| 174 | Gary MacDonald | Canada |
| 175 | Igor Kushpelev | Soviet Union |
| 176 | Massimo Nistri | Italy |
| 177 | Paul Midgley | Canada |
| 178 | Sergio Waismann | Brazil |
| 179 | Viktor Stulikov | Soviet Union |
| 180 | Bertram Turpe | East Germany |
| 181 | Valentyn Partyka | Soviet Union |
| 182 | Steve Hardy | Canada |
| 183 | Mike Scarth | Canada |
| 184 | Roger van Hamburg | Netherlands |
| 185 | Francois Deley | Belgium |
| 186 | Paul Jarvie | Australia |
| 187 | Steffen Kriechbaum | Austria |
| 188 | Csaba Sos | Hungary |
| 189 | Pedro Balcells | Spain |
| 190 | Ian MacKenzie | Canada |
| 191 | David Leigh | Great Britain |
| 192 | Par Arvidsson | Sweden |
| 193 | Roger-Philippe Menu | France |
| 194 | Jeff Van de Graaf | Australia |
| 195 | Ove Wisloff | Norway |
| 196 | Peter Broscienski | West Germany |
| 197 | Robert Stoddart | Canada |
| 198 | Hugo Valencia | Mexico |
| 199 | Jorge Comas | Spain |
| 200 | Paul Jovanneau | Brazil |
| 201 | Angel Chakarov | Bulgaria |
| 202 | James Findlay | Australia |
| 203 | Klaus Dockhorn | East Germany |
| 204 | Mikhail Gorelik | Soviet Union |
| 205 | Clive Rushton | Great Britain |
| 206 | Dave Heinbuch | Canada |
| 207 | Doug Jamison | Canada |
| 208 | Dusan Grozaj | West Germany |
| 209 | Lutz Stoklasa | West Germany |
| 210 | Martin Smith | Great Britain |
| 211 | Rene Ecuyer | France |
| 212 | Udo Poser | East Germany |
| 213 | Aleksandr Samsonov | Soviet Union |
| 214 | Geoffrey Ferreira | Trinidad & Tobago |
| 215 | Istvan Koczka | Hungary |
| 216 | Santiago Esteva | Spain |
| 217 | Rainer Strohbach | East Germany |
| 218 | Rainer Hradetzky | East Germany |
| 219 | Istvan Szentirmay | Hungary |
| 220 | Ryszard Zugaj | Poland |
| 221 | Sergio Ribeiro | Brazil |
| 222 | Greg Rogers | Australia |
| 223 | Karsten Meier | West Germany |
| 224 | Michael Richards | Great Britain |
| 225 | Peter Prijdekker | Netherlands |
| 226 | Pierre Caland | France |
| 227 | Svante Rasmuson | Sweden |
| 228 | Tom Alexander | Canada |
| 229 | Viktor Mazanov | Soviet Union |
| 230 | Yevgeny Seredin | Soviet Union |
| 231 | Jose Urueta | Mexico |
| 232 | Jose Luis Prado | Mexico |
| 233 | David Brumwell | Canada |
| 234 | Krasimir Stoykov | Bulgaria |
| 235 | Reinhold Becker | West Germany |
| 236 | Borut Petric | Yugoslavia |
| 237 | Jose-Ricardo de Jesus | Puerto Rico |
| 238 | Michael Ker | Canada |
| 239 | Paul Sparkes | Great Britain |
| 240 | Rafael Rocha | Mexico |
| 241 | Andrzej Chudzinski | Poland |
| 242 | Malcolm O'Connell | Great Britain |
| 243 | Michael Whitaker | Canada |
| 244 | Tateki Shinya | Japan |
| 245 | Ron Jacks | Canada |
| 246 | Lars Borgesen | Denmark |
| 247 | Rui Oliveira | Brazil |
| 248 | Tuomo Kerola | Finland |
| 249 | David Lopez-Zubero | Spain |
| 250 | James Hett | Canada |
| 251 | Kevin Burns | Great Britain |
| 252 | Michael Gunther | West Germany |
| 253 | Orlando Gatinchi | Puerto Rico |
| 254 | Peter Remmel | West Germany |
| 255 | Stefan Georgiev | Bulgaria |
| 256 | Colin Herring | New Zealand |
| 257 | Gilles Vigne | France |
| 258 | Hsu Tung-Hsiung | Chinese Taipei |
| 259 | Wladyslaw Wojtakajtis | Poland |
| 260 | Jiro Sasaki | Japan |
| 261 | Andreas Hellmann | West Germany |
| 262 | John Coutts | New Zealand |
| 263 | Antonio Azevedo | Brazil |
| 264 | Pierre Baehr | France |
| 265 | Shinsuke Kayama | Japan |
| 266 | Jo O-Ryeon | South Korea |
| 267 | Ross Seymour | Australia |
| 268 | Gudjon Gudmundsson | Iceland |
| 269 | Alberto Garcia | Mexico |
| 270 | Arnaldo Perez | Puerto Rico |
| 271 | Bruce Rogers | Canada |
| 272 | Cees Vervoorn | Netherlands |
| 273 | Deane Buckboro | Canada |
| 274 | Doug Martin | Canada |
| 275 | Gary Abraham | Great Britain |
| 276 | Laszlo Cseh Sr. | Hungary |
| 277 | Paolo Barelli | Italy |
| 278 | Serge Buttet | France |
| 279 | Vincenzo Finocchiaro | Italy |
| 280 | Vladimir Dementyev | Soviet Union |
| 281 | Liam Ball | Ireland |
| 282 | Osvaldo Boretto | Argentina |
| 283 | Alain Charmey | Switzerland |
| 284 | Alain Hermitte | France |
| 285 | Sandor Szabo | Hungary |
| 286 | Cezary Smiglak | Poland |
| 287 | Predrag Milos | Yugoslavia |
| 288 | Julio Abreu | Paraguay |
| 289 | Kevin Williamson | Ireland |
| 290 | Gustavo Lozano | Mexico |
| 291 | Stefan Wenz | West Germany |
| 292 | Helmut Podolan | Austria |
| 293 | Ignacio Alvarez | Mexico |
| 294 | Jacques Leloup | Belgium |
| 295 | Johan Van Steenberghe | Belgium |
| 296 | Conrado Porta | Argentina |
| 297 | Ivan Mikolutsky | Soviet Union |
| 298 | Ronald Woutering | Netherlands |
| 299 | Gerhard Waldmann | Switzerland |
| 300 | Sarun Van | Cambodia |
| 301 | Barry Prime | Great Britain |
| 302 | Alain Mosconi | France |
| 303 | Arturo Lang-Lenton | Spain |
| 304 | Duncan Cleworth | Great Britain |
| 305 | Gaetano Carboni | Italy |
| 306 | Gunnar Gundersen | Norway |
| 307 | Hans Lampe | West Germany |
| 308 | Mauro Calligaris | Italy |
| 309 | Walter Mack | West Germany |
| 310 | Fritz Warncke | Norway |
| 311 | Marian Slavic | Romania |
| 312 | Jose Joaquin Santibanez | Mexico |
| 313 | Peter Pettersson | Sweden |
| 314 | Hanspeter Wurmli | Switzerland |
| 315 | Baron Olaf von Schilling | West Germany |
| 316 | Bengt Jonsson | Sweden |
| 317 | Dirk Braunleder | West Germany |
| 318 | Gerhard Schiller | West Germany |
| 319 | Malcolm Windeatt | Great Britain |
| 320 | Michael Bailey | Great Britain |
| 321 | Paulo Zanetti | Brazil |
| 322 | Peter Coughlan | Australia |
| 323 | Rolf Pettersson | Sweden |
| 324 | Mark Crocker | Hong Kong |
| 325 | Zbigniew Pacelt | Poland |
| 326 | Tomas Becerra | Colombia |
| 327 | Georgios Karpouzis | Greece |
| 328 | Paulo Frischknecht | Portugal |
| 329 | Amman Jalmaani | Philippines |
| 330 | Sokhon Yi | Cambodia |
| 331 | Jairulla Jaitulla | Philippines |
| 332 | Zdravko Divjak | Yugoslavia |
| 333 | Henrique Vicencio | Portugal |
| 334 | Adi Prag | Israel |
| 335 | Gudmundur Gislason | Iceland |
| 336 | Gustavo Salcedo | Mexico |
| 337 | Janos Toth | Hungary |
| 338 | Jean-Pierre Dubey | Switzerland |
| 339 | Ramon Volcan | Venezuela |
| 340 | Vasil Dobrev | Bulgaria |
| 341 | Andreas Weber | West Germany |
| 342 | John Daly | Puerto Rico |
| 343 | Robert Howard | Ireland |
| 344 | Rudi Vingerhoets | Belgium |
| 345 | Ali Gharbi | Tunisia |
| 346 | Andre in het Veld | Netherlands |
| 347 | Christoph Kreienbuhl | Switzerland |
| 348 | Dan Larsson | Sweden |
| 349 | Gordon Hewitt | Great Britain |
| 350 | Miguel Lang-Lenton | Spain |
| 351 | Mikael Branden | Sweden |
| 352 | Paolo Revelli | Italy |
| 353 | Sergio Irredento | Italy |
| 354 | Chiang Jin Choon | Malaysia |
| 355 | Antonio de Melo de Melo | Portugal |
| 356 | Kris Sumono | Indonesia |
| 357 | Alfredo Carlos Machado | Brazil |
| 358 | Sverre Kile | Norway |
| 359 | Carlos Nazario | Puerto Rico |
| 360 | Sergio Hasbun | El Salvador |
| 361 | Feridun Aybars | Turkey |
| 362 | Thomas Hofer | Switzerland |
| 363 | Salvador Vilanova | El Salvador |
| 364 | Antonio Corell | Spain |
| 365 | Bruce Knowles | Bahamas |
| 366 | Dov Nisman | Israel |
| 367 | John Hawes | Canada |
| 368 | Jose Bas | Spain |
| 369 | Karim Ressang | Netherlands |
| 370 | Mel Zajac | Canada |
| 371 | Mike Holthaus | West Germany |
| 372 | Peter Lerpiniere | Great Britain |
| 373 | Viktor Aboimov | Soviet Union |
| 374 | Vladimir Krivtsov | Soviet Union |
| 375 | Paul Naisby | Great Britain |
| 376 | John Park | Great Britain |
| 377 | Richard Iredale | Great Britain |
| 378 | Roy Chan | Singapore |
| 379 | Carlos Singson | Philippines |
| 380 | Edwin Borja | Philippines |
| 381 | Kamal Kenawi Ali Moustafa | Egypt |
| 382 | Antonio Ferracuti | El Salvador |
| 383 | Arne Borgstrom | Norway |
| 384 | Attila Csaszari | Hungary |
| 385 | Bernt Zarnowiecki | Sweden |
| 386 | Guillermo Zavala | Mexico |
| 387 | Sigurdur Olafsson | Iceland |
| 388 | Campari Knoepffler | Nicaragua |
| 389 | Angelo Tozzi | Italy |
| 390 | Glen Sochasky | Venezuela |
| 391 | Gerardo Rosario | Philippines |
| 392 | Gustavo Gonzalez | Argentina |
| 393 | Steven Newkirk | US Virgin Islands |
| 394 | Bruno Bassoul | Lebanon |
| 395 | Amin Ahmed Adel Youssef | Egypt |
| 396 | Alfredo Hunger | Peru |
| 397 | Carlos Gonzalez | Panama |
| 398 | Karl Christian Koch | Denmark |
| 399 | Morkal Faruk | Turkey |
| 400 | Fridrik Gudmundsson | Iceland |
| 401 | Luis Goicoechea | Venezuela |
| 402 | Gianni Versari | Panama |
| 403 | Chhay-Kheng Nhem | Cambodia |
| 404 | Dimitrios Karydis | Greece |
| 405 | Edmondo Mingione | Italy |
| 406 | Enrico Bisso | Italy |
| 407 | Eugen Almer | Romania |
| 408 | Fernando Canales | Puerto Rico |
| 409 | Gregor Betz | West Germany |
| 410 | Helmut Levy | Colombia |
| 411 | Hugo Cuenca | Venezuela |
| 412 | Lorenzo Marugo | Italy |
| 413 | Martin Edwards | Great Britain |
| 414 | Michele Di Pietro | Italy |
| 415 | Nigel Johnson | Great Britain |
| 416 | Norbert Verweyen | West Germany |
| 417 | Piotr Dlucik | Poland |
| 418 | Riccardo Urbani | Italy |
| 419 | Patrick Novaretti | Monaco |
| 420 | Arnaldo Cinquetti | Italy |
| 421 | Neil Dexter | Great Britain |
| 422 | Dae Imlani | Philippines |
| 423 | Andy Knowles | Bahamas |
| 424 | Eduardo Perez | Mexico |
| 425 | Ronnie Wong | Hong Kong |
| 426 | Frank Richardson | Nicaragua |
| 427 | Samnang Prak | Cambodia |
| 428 | Sandro Rudan | Yugoslavia |
| 429 | Francisco Canales | Puerto Rico |
| 430 | Lutz Loscher | East Germany |
| 431 | Finnur Gardarsson | Iceland |
| 432 | Roberto Strauss | Mexico |
| 433 | Aleksandar Pavlicevic | Yugoslavia |
| 434 | Andreas Schmidt | West Germany |
| 435 | Luis Ayesa | Philippines |
| 436 | Riccardo Targhetti | Italy |
| 437 | Piero Ferracuti | El Salvador |
| 438 | Guillermo Pacheco | Peru |
| 439 | Jose Pereira | Portugal |
| 440 | Francois van Kruisdijk | Netherlands |
| 441 | Konstantinos Koskinas | Greece |
| 442 | Kozo Higuchi | Japan |
| 443 | Lionel Beylot-Bourcelot | France |
| 444 | Theodoros Koutoumanis | Greece |
| 445 | Dimitrios Theodoropoulos | Greece |
| 446 | Lawrence Kwoh | Hong Kong |
| 447 | Alejandro Cabrera | El Salvador |
| 448 | Brian Clifford | Ireland |
| 449 | Nikolay Ganev | Bulgaria |
| 450 | Fawzi Irhama | Kuwait |
| 451 | Tomas Rengifo | El Salvador |
| 452 | Andrew Hunter | Ireland |
| 453 | Jorge van Balen | Venezuela |
| 454 | Rui Abreu | Portugal |
| 455 | Abdullah Zeyab | Kuwait |
| 456 | Petar Georgiev | Bulgaria |
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