The Most Famous

SWIMMERS from Turkmenistan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 709 Swimmers, 2 of which were born in Turkmenistan. This makes Turkmenistan the birth place of the 63rd most number of Swimmers behind Trinidad and Tobago, and French Guiana.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkmen Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Turkmen Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Merdan Ataýew (b. 1995)

With an HPI of 25.04, Merdan Ataýew is the most famous Turkmen Swimmer.  His biography has been translated into 7 different languages on wikipedia.

Merdan Ataýew (born 8 May 1995) is a Turkmenistani swimmer. Ataýew competed for Turkmenistan at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics. International Master of Sports of Turkmenistan (2021).

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2. Darýa Semýonowa (b. 2002)

With an HPI of 24.93, Darýa Semýonowa is the 2nd most famous Turkmen Swimmer.  Her biography has been translated into 9 different languages.

Darýa Semýonowa (born 28 May 2002) is a Turkmenistan swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2019, she represented Turkmenistan at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. She competed in the women's 50 metre breaststroke and women's 100 metre breaststroke events.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Turkmen swimmers born between 1995 and 2002. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Turkmen swimmers include Merdan Ataýew, and Darýa Semýonowa.

Living Turkmen Swimmers

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