- Gary Hall Jr.
Gary Wayne Hall Jr. (born September 26, 1974 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American swimmer who competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and won ten Olympic medals (5 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze). Hall is well known for his antics before a competition; frequently strutting onto the pool deck in boxing shorts and robe, shadow boxing and flexing for the audience. He is a graduate of swimming powerhouse Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Hope Solo
Hope Solo is a goalkeeper for the United States women's soccer team. She attended Richland High School and the University of Washington, and played for several junior U.S. soccer teams before being named onto the Olympic team in 2004, making the 2004 Olympics in Athens as an alternate. She has recorded several shutouts, and once went 1,054 minutes without allowing a goal (a streak that ended in a 4-1 victory against France in the Algarve Cup).
- Nastia Liukin
Anastasia Liukina (born October 30, 1989), better known as Nastia Liukin, is an American gymnast. She is a four-time U.S. National Champion in artistic gymnastics.
- Alan Webb
Alan Webb (born January 13, 1983, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American track athlete. He holds a personal best of 3:30.54 in the 1500m, making him the third fastest American of all time at that distance. He competes professionally for Nike.
- Yang Tae-Young
Yang Tae-Young (born July 8, 1980, Seoul) is a South Korean 2004 Olympic medalist in artistic gymnastics. Yang made his World Gymnastics Championships debut in 2001, competing with the eighth-place South Korean team in Ghent. He also participated in the 2003 Worlds in Anaheim, where he helped the Korean squad qualify a full team to the 2004 Olympics with a twelfth-place finish. Yang also competed in the all-around final in Anaheim, placing twelfth.
- Jon Deeble
Jon Deeble (born May 18, 1962 in Melbourne, Australia) was a pitcher on the Australia national baseball team in the 1988 Olympics. He later went on to be a minor league manager. Deeble managed the Australian squad at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, leading the team to a silver medal in the latter Games. Deeble was Australia's manager, as well, in the 2006 World Baseball Classic.
- David Davies
David Davies (born March 3 1985 in Barry, Wales, United Kingdom) is a British long-distance swimmer. Davies competed in the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England.Still a teenager, he took part in the European Junior Championships where he won gold in 2003. Specialising in the 1,500 metres freestyle, he competed in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where he took the bronze medal in a time of 14:45.95 (a British and European record), …
- Li Ya
Li Ya (Simplified Chinese:李娅) is a Chinese gymnast born on June 13, 1988 in Anhui Province. Li Ya is an uneven bars and balance beam specialist. Li Ya is the 2004 National Champion on the uneven bars as well as the 2004 National All Around Silver Medalist. She a greta deal of success in the 2004 World Cup Circuit despite a bad showing at the 2004 Olympics. She won the uneven bars title at the Glasgow and Ghent World Cup Qualifiers.
- Mike Powell
Michael ("Mike") Anthony Powell is an American Track and Field athlete, and the holder of the long jump world record. Mike Powell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 1991 World Championships in Athletics (Tokyo), he broke Bob Beamon's 23-year-old long jump world record by 5 cm (2 inches), leaping 8.95 m (29 ft 4½ in). The world record still stands.
- Eliud Kipchoge
Eliud Kipchoge (born November 5 1984 in Kapsisiywa, near Kapsabet) is a Kenyan 5000 metres runner. He won a gold medal at the 5000m final of the 2003 World Championships, beating runner-up Hicham El Guerrouj by four hundredths of a second, by 12:52.79 and 12:52.83. He won a bronze medal at the 5000m final of the 2004 Athens Olympics, behind Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele. He also won the bronze in the 3000 metres indoor at the 2006 World Championships in Moscow.
- Yang Wei
Yang Wei (born February 8 1980 in Xiantao, Hubei province) is a male gymnast from China.
- Anky van Grunsven
Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda 'Anky' van Grunsven (born 2 January 1968 in Erp) is a Dutch Dressage champion who won the gold medal in the 2000 Olympics with her horse "Bonfire" and gold in the 2004 Olympics with "Salinero". Anky is married to her trainer/coach Sjef Janssen who entered the world of horses at the age of 28 and introduced new views on training. In 2005, accusations of abusive training by Van Grunsven appeared in the German horse magazine St. Georg.
- Mary Sanders
Mary Sanders (born 26 August, 1985 in Toronto, Canada) is an individual Rhythmic Gymnast. Mary holds dual citizenship of both the United States and Canada. Her father was from the US and her mother is Canadian, she began her career representing Canada. In late 2002 she decided to compete for the USA. Sanders is an Olympian, having competed in Athens in the 2004 Olympics. She has since retired from rhythmic gymnastics and she is now employed by Cirque du Soleil.
- Monique Hennagan
Monique Hennagan (born May 26, 1976 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. She won her first relay medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and her second in 2003. The next year, at the 2004 Olympics, she won a gold medal in the same event.
- Hiroyuki Tomita
Hiroyuki Tomita (born Osaka, 21 November 1980) is a Japanese gymnast. Tomita was part of the Japanese team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics and a bronze medal in the team event at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He was the all-around men's individual world champion in 2005. He also has won 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal, and 3 bronze medals at the 2002 and 2006 Asian Games.
- Alexandros Nikolaidis
Alexandros Nikolaidis (born October 17, 1979) is an Olympic taekwondo athlete from Greece. Initially the favorite, he eventually won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics held in Athens after being knocked out by a reverse roundhouse kick (Jump Spinning Hook Kick) from his opponent and gold medalist, Dae Sung Moon of South Korea.
- Cian O'Connor
Cián O'Connor is an Irish equestrian, educated at Belvedere College and godson to Tony O'Reilly, who won a show jumping gold medal at the 2004 Olympics which was later stripped from him due to drugs offences. Riding his horse "Waterford Crystal" he became an instant national hero, being the only Irish medalist that year. Unfortunately, success came at a hefty price. On the night of June 19th 2002, Cian's girlfriend at the time, …
- Annia Hatch
Annia Portuondo Hatch is a Cuban-American gymnast, who competed at the 2004 Olympics. Hatch began gymnastics in her native Cuba at the age of five. She won her first Cuban National Championships at the age of ten; over the course of her career she would win the title a total of seven times. Competing for Cuba, Hatch made her debut at the World Gymnastics Championships in 1993. She placed tenth in the all-around. In 1995 she picked up four medals at the Pan Am Games, …
- Hasna Benhassi
Hasna Benhassi (born June 1, 1978) is a Moroccan middle distance athlete. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she finished second to Kelly Holmes in the women's 800 meters. In August 2005 she won a silver medal in the 800 meters at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. She placed 8th in the 800 meters at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
- Clinton Hill
Clinton Hill (born April 19, 1980) is an Australian athlete. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, his family moved to Australia in 1997. He became an Australian citizen in June 2000 and was selected for the national 400 metres team. He competed in the 400 Metres at the 2004 Olympics, but was knocked out in the heats. However, Hill was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay.
- Butch Johnson
Richard "Butch" Johnson (b. August 30 1955) is an archer from Woodstock, Connecticut in the United States. He has competed in the Summer Olympics four times, and was a part of the gold medal U.S. team at the 1996 Olympics and the bronze medal U.S. team in the 2000 Olympics. At the 2004 Olympics, he was surprisingly eliminated by Ron van der Hoff with 135-145 in the round of 64, placing 52nd overall in men's individual archery.
- Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison (born January 20, 1974) is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Alvin Harrison. At the 2000 Olympics, Alvin Harrison and Calvin Harrison made history by becoming the first twins ever to compete and win Olympic gold medals together on the same relay team since the inception of the modern Olympic Games.
- Aleksander Tammert
Aleksander Tammert is an Estonian discus thrower. He competed at the 2004 Olympics and originally finished fourth, but as gold medal winner Róbert Fazekas was disqualified Tammert got the bronze medal. A month later he placed third at the World Athletics Final. 2005 was not his lucky year, placing fourth at both the World Championships and the World Athletics Final. Countryfellow Gerd Kanter won silver medals at both these events.
- Jason Parker
Jason Parker (born June 27, 1974) is an American sport shooter, one of the world's leading 10 m Air Rifle shooters, although he has also had some successes in Three positions competitions. He has never won an Olympic medal, but he won the Air Rifle event at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships. He has also held the final world record in this event on several occasions. He lost it to Zhu Qinan of China at the 2004 Olympics, …
- Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison (born January 20, 1974) is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Calvin Harrison.
- Monette Russo
Monette Russo (born August 4, 1988 in Lillydale, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian Artistic Gymnast. She made Australian history by becoming the first Australian gymnast ever to win an individual World Championship medal at the 2005 Melbourne Artistic Gymnastics World Championships when she came third in the all-around competition. She competed in three apparatus finals but there were no more medals. Monette finished seventh on bars and fifth on beam and floor.
- Campbell Walsh
Campbell Walsh (b. 26 November 1977, Glasgow) is a Scottish kayaker who won a Silver Medal in the K1 Single Class at the 2004 Olympics. He also won a Silver at the 2004 European Championships in the K1 Team Event and was World Cup Champion the same year. In 2006 he won a Bronze Medal at the World Championships in the K1 Single.
- Tim Brabants
Tim Brabants (born 23 January 1977 in Chertsey) is a British flatwater canoeist who won the individual kayak 1000m (k1) bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics. He went on to become K-1 1000m European champion at Szeged, Hungary in 2002, the first time a British paddler had won the blue riband event. The 2004 Olympics however were a disappointment.
- Gerd Kanter
Gerd Kanter (born May 6, 1979) is an Estonian discus thrower. He competed at the 2004 Olympics, but didn't reach the final. 2005 was his breakthrough year as he won silver medals at the World Championships and World Athletics Final, took home a victory in the European Cup and won the World University Games. He also threw more than 70 metres for the first time.
- Andriy Serdinov
Andriy Serdinov, born November 17, 1982 in Luhansk, is a Ukrainian swimmer, who competed in the 2004 Olympics in various categories, and won the bronze medal in the 100m butterfly. Serdinov was also the world record holder in this event, which stood for approximately five minutes. He broke Michael Klim's mark during the semifinals of the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, in 2003, only to have Michael Phelps break it in the next semifinal.
- Camilla Martin
Camilla Martin Nygaard nee Martin (born March 23, 1974 in Aarhus) is a retired badminton player from Denmark. Together with Lene Køppen by far the most winning Danish female player. She primarily played woman's singles. In that discipline she became national championship 13 years in a row, from 1991 to 2003, European champion three times, in 1992, 1996, and 1998, and World champion once in 1999. She won All England in 2002.
- Lebron James
LeBron Raymone James (born) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association. Commonly nicknamed "King James" and "The Chosen One", the Akron, Ohio-born James was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA star while still in high school, and was named Ohio's "Mr. Basketball" three times.
- Michael Anti
Michael Anti (born August 2, 1964) is an American sport shooter, a Major in the U.S. Army, and a marksman in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the 50 m Rifle, Three positions event with 1,263.1 points. The event winner was China's Zhanbo Jia with 1,264.5 points.
- Masato Uchishiba
is a Japanese judoka who won the gold medal in the men's under 66 kg division at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. To win the Olympic gold, he defeated Jozef Krnac of Slovakia. Of winning the gold, he said, "I wanted this so badly I wouldn't have cared if it was my last fight ever," though his comments were officially translated as: "It is probably my last Olympics, that is why I am proud of my medal." He also won the silver in his division at the 2005 Judo World Championships.
- Alexandra Eremia
Alexandra Georgiana Eremia (born February 19, 1987 in Bucharest) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. Her best apparatus is the balance beam, where she has qualified to many international event finals and also collected many medals. She has an interesting routine, which starts with her trademark spilt mount which is a unique and beautiful skill. Eremia had success as a junior gymnast before establishing herself as a strong senior.
- John Steffensen
John Steffensen (born August 30, 1982) is an Australian athlete, who specializes in 200 and 400 metres. His personal bests are 20.88 and 44.73. He competed in the 2004 Olympics, and was a part of the Australian team that won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay. In the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, he competed in 400 metres where he finished last in the final with 45.46. Steffensen won the gold medal in the 400 m at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, …
- Brandon Simpson
Brandon Simpson (born September 6, 1981 in Florida, USA) is a sprinter who represents Bahrain, having previously represented Jamaica. He has won a bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at three world championships; 2001, 2003 and 2005. He finished 6th in the individual 400 metres contest in 2005, and 5th at the 2004 Olympics.
- Craig Moore
Craig Andrew Moore (born December 12, 1975 in Sydney, New South Wales), is a defender from Australia, who plays for the Australia national football (soccer) team. Moore, a product of the Rangers youth system, became an important player in Rangers' defence up until 2004 (although he did spend most of the 1998/99 season at Crystal Palace, where he was also highly successful, despite the Eagles' relegation).
- Anna Rogowska
Anna Rogowska (born May 21, 1981 in Gdynia) is a Polish athlete competing in pole vault. She won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics. Rogowska narrowly beat Monika Pyrek, another pole vaulter from Gdynia. Early 2005 brought success as she won the silver medal in the European Indoor Championships. On July 22 2005 in London, she achieved a personal best with 4.80 m, which was also the Polish record.
- Patricia Moreno
Patricia Moreno (born January 7 1988 in Madrid) is a Spanish artistic gymnast. Moreno began gymnastics in 1995 and admires Romanian Simona Amanar. She took Spanish Women's Artistic Gymnastics first ever Olympic medal in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where she was third on floor with score of 9.487. During the Olympics, Moreno also debuted a 3 and a 1/2 twist on floor, a move which is now named after her. Moreno has also performaed a quadruple twist.