America’s Carrie Steinseifer and Russia’s Evgeny Sadovy highlight the list of inductees at the 35th annual International Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies held in Ft. Lauderdale on May 7 and 8. Steinseifer won two gold medals at the 1984 Olympic Games, including a tie (with Nancy Hogshead) in the 100m free–the only tie in Olympic history. Sadovy was a triple gold medalist at the 1992 Olympics, winning the 200m and 400m free, and swimming on the Unified Team’s victorious 800m free relay.
Other inductees: Adrian Moorhouse (Great Britain), winner of the 100m breast at the 1988 Olympics; Anne Ottenbrite (Canada), 200m breast champion in 1984; divers Falk Hoffman (Germany) and Kelly McCormick (USA); coach Ray Bussard (USA); Masters swimmers Kelley Lemmon (USA) and Maxine Merlino (USA); water polo player Mirko Sandic (Yugoslavia); synchro swimmer Kristen Babb-Sprague (USA); and contributors G. Harold Martin (USA) and Sebastian Salinas Abril (Peru).