ISHOF Set to Induct Class of 2026 Led by Nathan Adrian

ISHOF Set to Induct Stellar Class; Led by Nathan Adrian, Laszlo Cseh, Ranomi Kromowidjojo

ISHOF is thrilled to announce that will probably be internet hosting its 61^st Annual Honoree Induction Ceremony again in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Saturday, May 16, 2026. The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) is proud to announce its really worldwide Class of 2026, which is able to induct 11 Honorees from seven nations.

This 12 months’s ISHOF Honorees embrace: three HONOR SWIMMERS: Nathan Adrian (USA), László Cseh (HUN), and Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED); OPEN WATER SWIMMER: Ferry Weertman (NED); DIVER: Tania Cagnotto (ITA);  WATER POLO PLAYER: Simone Fountain (AUS); ARTISTIC SWIMMER: Heather Simmons-Carrasco (USA);MASTERS SWIMMER:Richard Burns (USA); COACH: Jane Figueiredo (ZIM);  CONTRIBUTOR: Stephen A. “Sid” Cassidy (USA); and PARALYMPIAN: Beatrice Hess (FRA).

HONOR SWIMMERS:

Nathan Adrian (USA) is a three-time Olympian, and five-time Olympic gold medalist who specialised within the 50- and 100-meter freestyle occasions. He has gained thirty-two medals in main worldwide competitions, twenty gold, seven silver, and 5 bronze in such competitions because the Olympic Games, the FINA World Championships, and the Pan Pacific Championships. A graduate of Cal Berkeley, Adrian is an 11-time particular person NCAA Champion, competing for the Bears and was a part of the 2010 males’s crew championship.

László Cseh (HUN) is a five-time Olympian and six-time Olympic medalist who’s so gifted, he competed in each stroke and almost each occasion in World Aquatics competitors. He has gained 74 medals in worldwide competitors, 38 gold, 19 silver and 17 bronze, representing Olympic Games, World and European Championships and one version of the World Universiade Games. In addition to being a 33-time European Champion, he has set 5 world data, within the IM, his signature occasion.

Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED) is a triple Olympic champion, successful the gold medal within the 4 x 100-freestyle relay on the 2008 Olympic Games, after which in London, in 2012, she took gold within the 50- and 100-meter freestyle, in addition to a silver within the 400 free relay occasion. She set most of her world data primarily within the quick course (SCM) 50m freestyle and on varied Dutch relays. She has gained an astounding 178  FINA/World Aquatics medals in worldwide/World Cup competitors throughout her profession, 70 gold, 62 silver and 46 bronze.

HONOR OPEN WATER SWIMMER:

Ferry Weertman (NED) is a two-time Olympian, successful the gold medal within the 10km open water swimming occasion on the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. He claimed his world title within the 10k FINA World Championships in Budapest (Lake Balaton), Hungary in 2017, after taking silver in 2015 in Kazan. Weertman grew to become the primary man to win each Olympic and world titles in Open Water Swimming. He is a two-time FINA Open Water Swimmer of the Year (2016 & 2018).

HONOR DIVER:

Tania Cagnotto (ITA) competed in 5 Olympic Games, eight World Championships, eight World Cups, 31 World Series and 54 FINA Diving Grand Prix’s.  Her efficiency was progressive, getting higher annually starting in 1999, gaining ends in the European Junior Championships, and reaching the highest in 2016 on the Rio Olympic Games with a silver and a bronze medal within the springboard occasions.  Her 3-meter synchronized crew was the perfect in Europe with eight synchro 3-meter gold medals along with teammate Francesca Dallapè and second on the planet solely to the Chinese groups.

HONOR WATER POLO PLAYER:

Simone Fountain (AUS) was fortunate to lengthen her profession lengthy sufficient to take part within the inaugural ladies’s Olympic Games for water polo in Sydney, successful gold at a time when she was considered one of many pre-eminent middle forwards of her period. Her help to Yvette Higgins in Sydney 2000 to attain the successful objective 1.3 seconds from time towards the United States of America (4-3) is known in Australian sport. It was the ladies’s first Olympic event. 

HONOR ARTISTIC SWIMMER:

Heather Simmons-Carrasco (USA) was an important member of the primary Olympic gold medal awarded for the crew occasion in synchronized swimming.  Follow these Atlanta Games, a majority of the USA crew stayed collectively and have been undefeated in worldwide crew competitors. Prior to 1996, Heather and crew USA gained a complete of seven gold medals in main worldwide competitions, together with the Olympics, FINA World Championships and FINA World Cups.  Heather started and ended her 18-year creative swimming profession beneath the auspices of Chris Carver and the Santa Clara Aquamaids. Her USA crew golds additionally included the Pan American Games, French Open, Swiss Open and the Pan Pacs. With the Aquamaids, Heather additionally gained 4 USA National Team championships in addition to the crew occasion on the French and Mallorca Opens. 

HONOR MASTERS SWIMMER:

Richard Burns (USA) would be the first Masters Swimmer to be inducted into ISHOF in ten years.  He has competed in 11 age teams, 30-34 by 80-84, which he’s presently competing in. He has damaged an incredible 97 world data as of December 2024, and people are solely his particular person WR.  Rich has competed in six completely different FINA/World Aquatics Masters World Championships, successful 13 gold, eight silver and two bronze medals, once more all particular person occasions. There’s extra so as to add when  we start thinking about his relays.  As of December 2023, Burns had added a thoughts boggling 3,215 FINA Masters World factors.  Rich was inducted into the Masters International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2010. At the time he had amassed 37 FINA World Records. Since then, he has added 60 further World Records to his depend.

HONOR COACH:

Jane Figueiredo (ZIM/RUS/GBR) was most lately awarded the 2024 IOC Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award, “awarded to a coach who has gone above and beyond in assisting their athletes both on the sporting and the personal side, supporting them through their Olympic journeys”.  She was chosen from greater than 110 candidatures, nominated by Olympians, International Federations, National Olympic Committees (NOCs), members of the IOC Athletes’ and IOC Athletes’ Entourage commissions, and IOC Members.  Jane has coached 13 Olympic medalists, and in World Championship competitors, her divers have come away with over 15 medals.  She has been named World Aquatics Diving Coach of the Year, and she or he is a five-time NCAA Women’s Coach of the Year.

HONOR CONTRIBUTOR:

Stephen A. “Sid” Cassidy (USA) has in all probability finished extra for the game of open water swimming than anybody else.  He has served in all elements of the game: as an athlete, coach, and race director, however Sid’s biggest affect within the sport has been achieved as the results of his work as chairman of the FINA/WA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee, the place he had oversight of the FINA 10 km Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit, the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix collection and the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships. Under his management, marathon swimming was added to the Olympic program on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. He was the official starter of the primary Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has helped standardize and professionalize the judging and staging of marathon swims around the globe.

HONOR PARALYMPIAN:

BEATRICE HESS (FRA) is a five-time Paralympian, successful a complete of 25 medals, 20 of them gold. She has cerebral palsy and competed within the S5 incapacity classification.  In addition, she he seven (7) World titles and 18 European titles and is probably the most embellished French Paralympic swimmer.  Hess shot to stardom on her Paralympic debut on the New York 1984 Paralympic Games, incomes 4 gold medals in as many occasions. From there, she was unstoppable, topping the rostrum 16 extra instances earlier than closing the curtain on her profession after Athens 2004. Hess was the flagbearer at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

In addition, ISHOF can be formally inducting two Honorees from final 12 months’s class of 2025 that weren’t capable of be with us in Singapore: Coach Gregg Troy (USA) and swimmer Ryan Lochte (USA)

Ryan Lochte (USA) is a 12-time Olympic medalist, making him the third-most embellished swimmer in Olympic historical past, measured by complete variety of medals, behind solely Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky. Lochte’s seven particular person Olympic medals rank second in historical past in males’s swimming, tied for second amongst all Olympic swimmers.

Gregg Troy (USA) is a three-time Olympic Coach for the USA, 1996, 2008 and 2012.  He has coached many Olympians and Olympic gold medalists together with Ryan Lochte, Caleb Dressel and Elizabeth Beisel to call a simply few.  He was the Head Coach of the Bolles School, 1977-1997, and the University of Florida Gators from 1998-2018, successful the Women’s NCAA’s in 2010.

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