The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Albania
This page contains a list of the greatest Albanian Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 709 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Albania. This makes Albania the birth place of the 96th most number of Swimmers behind Burkina Faso, and Nepal.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Albanian Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Albanian Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Sidni Hoxha (b. 1992)
With an HPI of 31.79, Sidni Hoxha is the most famous Albanian Swimmer. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Sidni Hoxha (born 6 January 1992, in Shkoder) is an Albanian swimmer who participated for the first time in the 2008 Olympic Games in the 50 m freestyle at the age of 16 years. Hoxha swam for Old Dominion University in Virginia, while studying civil engineering. He swam for the Albanian swim club Tirana Defina Sport (TDS), which was initially coached by Dashamir Bregu and later by his father Shpetim Hoxha and Agron Cukja. His grandfather Ismet Hoxha played football for Albania.
2. Nikol Merizaj (b. 1998)
With an HPI of 22.43, Nikol Merizaj is the 2nd most famous Albanian Swimmer. Her biography has been translated into 11 different languages.
Nikol Merizaj (born 7 August 1998) is an Albanian swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics where she finished 43rd in the heats and did not advance. In 2019, she represented Albania at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea. She competed in the women's 50 metre freestyle and women's 100 metre freestyle events. In both events she did not advance to compete in the semi-finals.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Albanian swimmers born between 1992 and 1998. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Albanian swimmers include Sidni Hoxha, and Nikol Merizaj. As of April 2024, 1 new Albanian swimmers have been added to Pantheon including Sidni Hoxha.
