Ada Kok (Holland/NED)

Honor Swimmer (1976)

FOR THE RECORD:  OLYMPIC GAMES: 1964 silver (100m butterfly; 400m medley relay); 1968 gold (200m butterfly); WORLD RECORDS: 10; EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: 3; “European Swimmer of the Year”: 1963, 1965, 1967.

Ada Kok of the Netherlands helped open the Hall of Fame in 1966 at the first Hall of Fame International Meet, little realizing — after her disappointing second place Tokyo Olympic performances — that she would be inducted as a Hall of Fame Honoree ten years later.  Ada won in 1968, then retired to become Speedo’s glamorous European sales representative.  By the record and consensus vote, she is considered the all-time premier woman butterflyer.