By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) has announced an 11-member class of 2026. The group will be inducted at a ceremony at the ISHOF in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on Saturday, May 16, 2026.
This year’s ISHOF Honorees include:
3 x HONOR SWIMMERS: Nathan Adrian (USA), László Cseh (HUN), and Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED); 1 x OPEN WATER SWIMMER: Ferry Weertman (NED); 1 x DIVER: Tania Cagnotto (ITA); 1 x WATER POLO PLAYER: Simone Fountain (AUS); 1 x ARTISTIC SWIMMER: Heather Simmons-Carrasco (USA); 1 x MASTERS SWIMMER: Richard Burns (USA); 1 x COACH: Jane Figueiredo (ZIM); 1 x CONTRIBUTOR: Stephen A. “Sid” Cassidy (USA); and 1 x PARALYMPIAN: Beatrice Hess (FRA). Gregg Troy and Ryan Lochte, members of the 2025 class who could not attend last year’s ceremony in Singapore, will also be officially honored at the 2026 ceremony.The ISHOF seems to have settled into a consistent pattern of selection. For the 2nd straight year, the class has included 11 members, with 4 swimmers and 1 individual in each other category. This year, they have a separate Paralympian category, which was given to French swimmer Beatrice Hess, a 20-time Paralympic gold medalist, and the Hall’s first Masters Swimmer inducted in a decade.
There is no honoree in the Pioneer category this year, which honors individuals whose “great achievements or advancements in aquatics…have been overlooked,” by era, war or politics, barrier-breaking moments, etc.
This year’s class is a star-studded one, as eligible swimmers (retired four or more years) are from the more modern era of swimming publicity post-the founding of SwimSwam.
American swimmer Nathan Adrian is an 8-time Olympic medalist, including 5 gold medals. He has a further 10 World Championship gold medals in long course and 2 in short course, with his biggest individual conquest being a 2012 gold medal in the 100 meter freestyle.
Dutch sprinter Ranomi Kromowidjojo was the sprint queen of an era of Dutch sprint dominance. She won four Olympic medals, three gold, in her career, including a sweep of the 50 and 100 freestyles at the 2012 Games. She also was the first woman to ever go faster than 53 seconds in the 100 free in long course without the aid of the now-banned high-tech polyurethane suits.
Joining the sprinters is Hungarian Laszlo Cseh. A frequent foil to American superstars Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, Cseh won four silver medals and two bronze medals in his decorated career. Phelps won gold in five of those six Olympic finals.
Cseh was the 2015 World Champion in long course in the 400 IM in 2005 and 100 fly in 2015.
Joining them among swimmers is Dutch open water legend Ferry Weertman. A two-time Olympian, he won the 2016 Olympic gold medal and 2017 World World Championship gold medal in the 10k, making him the first man to ever win both World Championship and Olympic gold in the sport’s premier open water distance.
There are two diving people in the class, both women: Italian Tania Cagnotto is a five-time Olympian, winning silver in 3 meter synchro and bronze in 3 meter springboard in her final appearance in the 2016 Olympics. She was also the 2015 World Champion on 1 meter.
Much as we saw Michael Phelps inducted with his coach Bob Bowman, Cagnotto will be inducted with her coach at the University of Houston Jane Figueiredo.
Cagnotto dove for the Cougars for just one season, and is one of many Olympic medalists that the Zimbabwean Figueiredo coached. A former international competitor herself, she began her coaching career at Houston in 1988, a year after graduating, and built one of the world’s most impressive international coaching resumes.
She was a five-time NCAA Diving Coach of the Year and the coach of 2010 Olympic men’s 10 meter synchro champions Tom Daley and Matty Lee from Great Britain, and the 2000 Olympic women’s 3 meter springboard champions Vera Ilyina and Yulia Pakhalina from Russia. In total, her divers have won a combined 13 Olympic medals.
After a stint in Great Britain coaching Daley to his final Olympic Games in 2024, Figueiredo was hired in April as the new head diving coach at the University of Tennessee.
Sid Cassidy is one of the world’s leading figures in open water swimming as an athlete, as a coach, and as a race director. He served as the chairman of the FINA/World Aquatics Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and oversaw the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup and Grand Prix circuits and the World Championships.
He was the official start of the first Olympic 10km marathon swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and has ‘helped standardize and professionalize the judging and staging of marathon swims around the world.
In synchro, Heather Simmons-Cassaco was a member of the US team that won the first ever Olympic gold medal in synchro at the 1996 Games. In water polo, Australian Simone Fountain was a member of the first-ever women’s water polo Olympic gold medal winning team in 2000.
Masters swimmer Richard Burns of the United States will also be inducted. He is the first Masters Swimmer to be inducted in 10 years. He has broken 97 individual World Records as of December in over 50 years in the sport.
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