Poll: Favorite Swimmer of all time?

Tracy Caulkins, Mary T and Steve Lundquist!

Janet Evans

I second the vote of Tom Dolan. I had the pleasure of watching him practice a number of times, the year before the 2000 Olympics. He may not have the best looking strokes but there was no one that trained any harder.

Still Burwell Bumpy Jones.

Jenny Thompson, Katie Hoff, Kaitlin Sandeno, and Dara Torres for women Aaron Peirsol, Ian Crocker, Grant Hackett, and Gary Hall Jr for men

Thought you guys might get a kick out of this. I was searching for swim videos from past olympics on youtube - and a series came up from the 64 Olympics and others. This video is at the National Gymnasium swimming pool. It features the races of Don Schollande (awarded gold meda), Dawn Fraser of Australia wins 3rd medal; backstroke race won by 3 Americans. It was so interesting to see how different starts, turns are - but the swimming seems not to have changed much. Here's the link to that video, and other links are featured there. www.youtube.com/watch Maybe you'll see some of your faves in those videos...let me know what ya think!

i remember the 72 olympics like it was yesterday. the first time i ever saw anyone swimming butterfly was one of mark spitzs' gold medal swims. my brothers and i immeadiately began thrashing in our backyard pool attempting to fly through the water. those posters of spitz with the 7 golds and the stars and stripes speedo are hard to come by these days, but if i find one for my wife, she might let me hang up my vintage farrah faucet i've held on to!

Dawn Fraser and a few other Aussie's including the Konrads were at a party with a few of us Canadian swimmers in 1958. Dawn was a great swimmer who was a renegade as far as the Aussie Swim Federation was concerned. I have a wonderful Photo with her and Lorraine Crapp taken in 1956 at the Olympics in Melbourne. We even kissed once, very nice. Dawn was almost barred by their association because she went out with a USA basketball player in 1956. Now that would have been a terrible thing for swimming. Dawn the rebel www.womenaustralia.info/.../IMP0178b.htm

All of these are current swimmers except Spitz. Some times we have short memories in swimming. My favorite male swimmer is Weismuller. Female its a threeway tie:Dawn Frasier,Tracy Caulkins, and Shirley Babashoff.

Also Lisa are you one of those anti-breaststroke people,if not where is Brendan Hansen on your list?