Olympic Athlete
Also known as
- Add other possible names for this type
There is no user-contributed description yet.
-
Results: 1 – 30 of 29,141
| close name | close image | close Also Typed With | Medals | close article | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| close Country | close Event | ||||
| Saori Yoshida | Person |
is a wrestler who competed in the Women's Freestyle 55 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal.
Since her debut in 2002, she has won every world- and international-level tournament she has entered. In September 2006, she surpassed a...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Vasiliy Kaptyukh | Person |
Vasiliy Kaptyukh (born June 27, 1967 in Molodechno) is a Belarus discus throw who won the Olympic bronze medal in 1996. He has in fact never won gold or silver medals in major competitions, and he finished fourth in major contests such as the 2000...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Mohammad Nassiri | Person |
Mohammad Nassiri Seresht (, born October 1, 1945 in Tehran) is a retired Iran weightlifter and an Olympic Gold Medal for Iran.
In 1995 he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Arthur Schwab | Person |
Arthur Tell Schwab (4 September 1896 – 27 February 1945) was a Swiss race walker. He won an Olympic silver medal over 50 kilometres in Berlin 1936. Two years earlier he had won a silver medal at the European Championships.
His son Erich Arthur...
|
|||
| Deceased Person | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Galina Zybina | Person |
Galina Ivanovna Zybina (born January 22, 1931 in Leningrad, USSR) was a Russia shot-putter and javelin throw who won three Olympic medals. She trained at VSS Zenit and later at VSS Trud. Her fame rests primarily on eight consecutive world records...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Daisuke Matsuzaka |
|
Person |
is a Japanese starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. He previously played for the Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League. He was selected the MVP of the 2006 World Baseball Classic and is an Olympic bronze medal.
He was born on September 13, 1980,...
|
||
| Baseball Player | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Guy Lacombe | Person |
Guy Lacombe (born June 12, 1955 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue) is a French former professional football (soccer) player.
He is currently the manager of Stade Rennais.
He was the former manager of the French football club Paris Saint-Germain in the...
|
|||
| Football player | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Jacques Anquetil | Person |
Jacques Anquetil (8 January, 1934–18 November, 1987), was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964. He stated before the 1961 Tour that he would gain the yellow jersey on...
|
|||
| Deceased Person | |||||
| Cyclist | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Mikhail Korkiya | Person |
Mikheil Korkia (September 10 1948 in Kutaisi – February 7 2004 in Tbilisi) was a Soviet basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He trained at Dynamo in Tbilisi.
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Klaus Thiele | Person |
Klaus Thiele (born January 21, 1958) was an East German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
He competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the silver medal...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Olimpiada Ivanova | Person |
Olimpiada Ivanova (, born August 26, 1970 in Munsjuty, Chuvashia) is a Russian race walker. She has 4 medals from the major events.
Her first gold medal was won in the 2001 Edmonton World Championships, where she beat the rest of the world with the...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Robert Reichel | Person |
Robert Reichel (born June 25, 1971 in Litvínov, Czech Republic) is a professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames, New York Islanders, Phoenix Coyotes and Toronto Maple Leafs.Reichel was drafted 70th...
|
|||
| Hockey Player | |||||
| Pro Athlete | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Timo Jutila | Person |
Timo Jutila (born December 24, 1963 in Tampere, Finland) is a retired Finnish ice hockey defenceman.
Jutila was drafted by Buffalo Sabres (4th round, 68th overall) in 1982 NHL Entry Draft.
Jutila's ice hockey career began at the "Pohjola Leiri"...
|
|||
| Hockey Player | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Georgiy Tsurtsumia | Person |
Georgi Tsurtsumia (born October 29, 1980 in Tsalenjikha, Georgia) is an Kazakh wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Laure Pequegnot | Person |
Laure Pequegnot (born September 30, 1975) is a former French Alpine skier.
She was born in Échirolles, suburb of the south of Grenoble, (Isère). She won a total of 3 Alpine skiing World Cup races, all in the slalom discipline.
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| David Mercer | Person |
David Mercer (27 June 1928, Wakefield, England – 8 August 1980, Haifa, Israel) was an English playwright and dramatist. After working as a technician and serving in the Royal Navy he attended Kings College, Newcastle (which then awarded degrees...
|
|||
| Film writer | |||||
| Deceased Person | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Ville Nieminen | Person |
Ville Nieminen (born April 6, 1977 in Tampere, Finland) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward for Tappara and former for the Malmö Redhawks of the Allsvenskan (icehockey) in Sweden .
Nieminen started his professional hockey career with...
|
|||
| Hockey Player | |||||
| Pro Athlete | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Elise Laverick | Person |
Elise Laverick (born 27 July 1975) is a British rower. She won bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the double scull with Sarah Winckless.
She is a member of Thames Rowing Club in Putney, London, and of Thames Valley Skiff Club at Walton on Thames...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Elio Ragni | Person |
Elio Ragni (December 5 1910 – June 19 1998) was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
He competed for Italy in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Jean-Luc Brassard | Person |
Jean-Luc Brassard (born August 24, 1972 in Valleyfield, Quebec) is a French-Canadian freestyle skier, winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in the sport's debut as a medal event. Brassard has been credited with popularizing the wearing...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Stefan Pfeiffer | Person |
Stefan Pfeiffer (born November 15 1965 in Hamburg) is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he won the bronze medal in the 1500 m freestyle event. Four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Lyudmila Prokasheva | Person |
Lyudmila Prokasheva (, born January 23, 1969 in Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR) is a former speed skater. Representing Kazakhstan, she won an Olympic bronze medal in the 1998 5000 metres. In 1995, she won a silver medal in the World Allround Speed Skating...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Yukio Kasaya | Person |
Yukio Kasaya (笠谷 幸生 Kasaya Yukio, born August 17, 1943 in Yoichi, Hokkaido) is a former Japanese ski jumper. He was one of the most successful ski jumpers of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. At the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Dennis Mitchell | Person |
For the U.S. comic strip character named Dennis Mitchell see Dennis the Menace
Dennis Allen Mitchell (born February 20, 1966) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Born in Havelock, North...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Leamon King | Person |
Leamon King (February 13, 1936 – May 23, 2001) was an American athlete who jointly held the world record for the 100 metre sprint for men from 1956 to 1960.
King, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, became joint holder of the...
|
|||
| Deceased Person | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Lennart Johansson |
|
Person |
Lennart Johansson (born 5 November, 1929) was the president of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations from 1990 until 2007. Johansson is probably most famous for starting the UEFA Champions League and for bringing the UEFA European...
|
||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Matteo Ferrari | Person |
Matteo Ferrari (born December 5, 1979 in Aflou, Algeria) is an Italian football player who is playing for Genoa in the italian Serie A. Matteo was born in Algeria to an Italian father and a Guinea mother. He grew up in Ferrara and has a brother who...
|
|||
| Football player | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Nikki McCray | Person |
Nikki McCray (born December 17, 1971 in Collierville, Tennessee) is a former American professional basketball player. She played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for eight seasons.
A 5'11" guard from the University of Tennessee...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Bernice Orwig | Person |
Bernice Jane Orwig (born November 24, 1976) is an American water polo player, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Orwig plays the position of goalie.
On the college level, Orwig played for USC. As a senior in 1999, she was on the...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Thomas Flemming | Person |
Thomas Flemming (born July 14, 1967) is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
There he won the silver medal in the 4x200m Freestyle, alongside Uwe Dassler, Sven Lodziewski,...
|
|||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
