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What animal

is the fastest

swimmer?

Olympic swimmers look

slow when compared with

streamlined sharks and fast-

moving fish. But everything Orca

gets overtaken by the sailfish, 56 km/h (35 mph)

which tops 109 km/h (68 mph).

The top speeds of the ocean’s fastest
movers can easily splash past those of This graceful penguin propels
the fastest human. If all kinds of marine itself through the water about
life came together for a race in a standard three times faster than any
50-m (164-ft) Olympic swimming pool, other penguin species. Common octopus
our best athletes would lag far behind. 40 km/h (25 mph)

Gentoo penguin
These turbo-charged turtles are 35 km/h (22 mph)
the world’s fastest reptiles, with the
stamina to swim for up to five hours.

Olympic champion Florent
Manaudou, from France, set
a new record when he swam
the 50-m (164-ft) freestyle race
in 20.26 seconds in 2014.

Human Leatherback turtle
9 km/h (6 mph) 35 km/h (22 mph)

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