Swimming
- Shigeo Arai, 27, Japanese swimmer, military actions during World War II (1944)
- Sybil Bauer, 23, American backstroker, cancer (1927)
- Fran Crippen, 26, American long distance swimmer, heart attack while competing in an open water swimming race in the United Arab Emirates (2010)
- Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian swimmer, cardiac arrest. Died while on a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona (2012)
- Victor Davis, 25, Canadian swimmer, car accident (1989)
- James Rigg, 22, American swimmer, drowned in campus pool at Arizona State University (2011)
- Edsard Schlingemann, 23, Dutch Olympic swimmer, car crash (1990)
Read more about this topic: List Of Sportspeople Who Died During Their Careers
Famous quotes containing the word swimming:
“The swimming hole is still in use. It has the same mudbank. It is still impossible to dress without carrying mud home in one’s inner garments. As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole. But I doubt if the decrease in mother’s grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting muddy.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values—whether presented on television or in “real life.” The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some “high” to feel worthwhile.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“Loosed betwixt eye and lid, the swimming beams
Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
Rise to the air, plunge to the cold streams....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)