Let's make this birthday one to remember.

36 years old (Born on December 11, 1988)

Happy birthday to the incredible Alia Atkinson—Olympian, record-breaker, and proud Jamaican water queen! You've been swimming circles around us mere mortals ever since you splashed onto our screens in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Safe to say we've loved watching everyone else desperately trying—and usually failing—to keep up with your remarkable strokes!

With world records under your belt and medals aplenty sprinkling your trophy shelf (seriously, it must be sagging by now!), we admire not just how effortlessly you slice through water but also how easily you've swum right into all our hearts. Keep making waves; age is only pool-length deep for legends like you!