The Most Famous
SWIMMERS from Kyrgyzstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kirghiz Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 709 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Kyrgyzstan. This makes Kyrgyzstan the birth place of the 89th most number of Swimmers behind Algeria, and Bolivia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kirghiz Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Kirghiz Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Denis Petrashov (b. 2000)
With an HPI of 26.38, Denis Petrashov is the most famous Kirghiz Swimmer. His biography has been translated into 10 different languages on wikipedia.
Denis Petrashov (born February 1, 2000) is a Kyrgyz competitive swimmer who swam for the University of Louisville and was a three-time Olympic participant. He competed in the Men's 200-meter breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and both the Men's 100-meter (swimming a 1:00.23, setting a Kyrgyz national record) and 200-meter breaststroke events at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He made the semifinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 200-meter breaststroke, finishing seventh. Petrashov won the silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke at the 2018 Youth Olympics, and gold medals at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Israel in both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kirghiz swimmers born between 2000 and 2000. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kirghiz swimmers include Denis Petrashov.
