Torres swam in 5 Olympics and at the age of 41 was the oldest swimmer to ever make the US Olympic team
Five-time Olympic medallist and youngest-ever female Olympic champion at age 14
Twelve Olympic medals and six-time medal-winner at a single Olympic Games
Five-time Olympic champion, 15-time World champion, 14-time World Record breaker
Likely the greatest female long-distance swimmer. Won 25 of 27 international races between 1986-95
In 1964, she became the first swimmer to win three consecutive titles in the same event
A three-time Olympic gold winner. Best remembered for being the first woman to cross the English Channel (1926)
She set six world records and earned a total of eight individual Olympic medals in her career
Representing Australasia, she became the first woman to win an Olympic swimming gold in 1912
First African-American female swimmer to win an individual Olympic medal