Swammy Awards

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Swammy Awards are awarded annually by the American-based swimming news website SwimSwam . Categories include Swimmer of the Year, Junior Swimmer of the Year, Open Water Swimmer of the Year, Para-Swimmer of the Year and regional, NCAA, USA Swimming age group and coaching awards.

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The Swammy Awards were inaugurated in 2012.

Swimmers of the Year

YearFemale WinnerNationalityRefMale WinnerNationalityRef
2012 Allison Schmitt Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [1]
2013 Katinka Hosszú Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary [2] Chad le Clos Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa [3]
2014 Katie Ledecky Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [4] Chad le Clos (2)Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa [5] [6]
2015 Katie Ledecky (2)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [7] Adam Peaty Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom [8]
2016 Katie Ledecky (3)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [9] Michael Phelps Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [10]
2017 Sarah Sjöström Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden [11] Caeleb Dressel Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [12]
2018 Katie Ledecky (4)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [13] Kliment Kolesnikov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia [14]
2019 Regan Smith Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [15] [16] Caeleb Dressel (2)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [17]
2020 Kaylee McKeown Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia [18] Caeleb Dressel (3)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [19]
2021 Emma McKeon Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia [20] Caeleb Dressel (4)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [21]
2022 Katie Ledecky (5)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [22] David Popovici Flag of Romania.svg  Romania [23]
2023 Kaylee McKeown Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia [24] Qin Haiyang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China [25]

Junior Swimmers of the Year

YearFemale WinnerNationalityRefMale WinnerNationalityRef
2014 Daria Ustinova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia [26] Mack Horton Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia [27] [28]
2015 Viktoria Zeynep Gunes Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey [29] Li Zhuhao Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China [30]
2016 Penny Oleksiak Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada [31] Kyle Chalmers Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia [32]
2017 Rikako Ikee Flag of Japan.svg  Japan [33] Kliment Kolesnikov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia [34]
2018 Taylor Ruck Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada [35] Kliment Kolesnikov (2)Flag of Russia.svg  Russia [36]
2019 Regan Smith Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [16] [37] Andrei Minakov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia [38]
2020 Benedetta Pilato Flag of Italy.svg  Italy [39] Andrei Minakov (2)Flag of Russia.svg  Russia [40]
2021 Lydia Jacoby Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [41] Hwang Sun-woo Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea [42]
2022 Summer McIntosh Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada [43] David Popovici Flag of Romania.svg  Romania [44]
2023 Summer McIntosh (2)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada [45] Ilya Kharun Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada [46]

Open Water Swimmers of the Year

YearFemale WinnerNationalityRefMale WinnerNationalityRef
2012 Oussama Mellouli Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia [47] [48]
2013 Poliana Okimoto Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil [49] Thomas Lurz Flag of Germany.svg  Germany [50]
2014 Sharon van Rouwendaal Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [51] Ferry Weertman Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [52] [53]
2015 Ana Marcela Cunha Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil [54] Jordan Wilimovsky Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [55]
2016 Sharon van Rouwendaal (2)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [56] Ferry Weertman (2)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [57]
2017 Ana Marcela Cunha (2)Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil [58] Ferry Weertman (3)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [59]
2018 Sharon van Rouwendaal (3)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [60] Kristof Rasovszky Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary [61]
2019 Ana Marcela Cunha (3)Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil [62] Florian Wellbrock Flag of Germany.svg  Germany [63]
2020 Anastasia Kirpichnikova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia [64] Marc-Antoine Olivier Flag of France.svg  France [65]
2021 Ana Marcela Cunha (4)Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil [66] Florian Wellbrock (2)Flag of Germany.svg  Germany [67]
2022 Ana Marcela Cunha (5)Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil [68] Gregorio Paltrinieri Flag of Italy.svg  Italy [69]
2023 Leonie Beck Flag of Germany.svg  Germany [70] Florian Wellbrock (3)Flag of Germany.svg  Germany [71]

Paralympic Swimmers of the Year

The Paralympic swimmer of the year award ran from 2014 to 2016.

YearFemale WinnerNationalityRefMale WinnerNationalityRef
2014 Jessica Long Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States [72] Yevheniy Bohodayko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine [73]
2015 Tiffany Thomas Kane Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia [74] Ihar Boki Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus [75] [76]
2016 Yelyzaveta Mereshko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine [77] Ihar Boki (2)Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus [78]

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