- Sanya Richards
Sanya Richards (born February 26, 1985 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Richards left Jamaica for the USA at the age of 12 and became a US citizen in May 2002. At St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, she lettered in basketball in high school and is a member of the National Honor Society, … - Theodoros Papaloukas
Theodoros Papaloukas ; born May 8, 1977) is a Greek top professional basketball player who has been playing for CSKA Moscow since June 2002. A native of Athens, Papaloukas began his career at the small local Athens team Ethnikos Ellinoroson. His distinctive style (a 2-meters- [nearly 6 feet 7 inches] tall point guard) led him to move to rising team of Ampelokipoi, then Dafni, and eventually to Panionios, a mid-level classic team for first league Greek basketball. - Stein Metzger
Stein Metzger (born November 17, 1972 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a top beach volleyball player from the United States, playing in the AVP. In 2006 he played with his high school teammate, Mike Lambert, and they advanced to the Final Four in fourteen of the fifteen team events, winning five times. They formed the only team to not have a losing record against any other team that season. Metzger made his Olympic beach volleyball debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, … - Deena Kastor
Competing in her third Olympics in the marathon (Aug. 17), Deena is the top female distance runner in the United States. She took home the bronze medal in the women's marathon in Athens in 2004. The Agoura, CA, native now resides in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Deena Kastor was forced to withdraw during the women's marathon due to injury. - Ricardo Santos
Ricardo Montalban Victor Emanuel Hidalgo Rodrigo Dos Santos is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, partnering Zé Marco de Melo. Santos also represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he claimed the gold medal, teaming up with Emanuel Rego, with whom he won the world title in October 2003. - Kaitlin Sandeno
Kaitlin Shea Sandeno (born March 13, 1983 in Mission Viejo, California) is an American swimmer, and was part of the team that set the world record in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At a younger age, Kaitlin swam for the Nellie Gail Gators, coached by Vic and Renee Riggs. She swam as one of the top competitors in freestyle events, and helped the Gator team. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, … - Emanuel Rego
Emanuel Fernando Sheffer Rego (born April 15, 1973 in Curitiba) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, partnering [[Ricardo Montalban Victor Emanuel Hidalgo Dos Santos - Jason Lee
Jason David Lee (born May 21, 1970) is a former field hockey player from England, who won 62 caps for England and 25 with Great Britain. He played in the 1992 (Barcelona) and 1996 Summer Olympics (Atlanta). He played the majority of his club hockey for Loughborough Students who he also coached, taking them from the bottom of the Midland Leagues to the top end of the Premier Division of the English Hockey League in just six years. After his active he became a hockey coach. - Jeff Nygaard
Jeff Wayne Nygaard (born August 3, 1972 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American beach volleyball player who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics with partner Dain Blanton in Athens, Greece. In 1996 and 2000 he was a member of the Men's Olympic National Indoor Team. Nygaard returned for senior year at UCLA after helping Team USA claim the bronze medal at the '94 World Championship in Athens, Greece. - Pyrros Dimas
Pyrros Dimas ; Albanian: Pirro Dhima; born October 13, 1971), is a Greek weightlifter and three-time Olympic champion for Greece. Dimas was born in Himara, Albania (Northern Epirus) of Greek descent, and emigrated to Greece in 1991. He first competed for Greece in the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the 82.5 kg class. His birthplace gave rise to his nickname "The Lion of Himara". - Tonique Williams-Darling
Tonique Williams-Darling (born January 17, 1976) is a Bahamian sprint athlete. She won the gold medal in the 400 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She attended the University of South Carolina and graduated with a degree from the Moore School of Business in 1999. It was her goal to make 2004 her most successful year, and she may have achieved just that. She started the year with a bronze medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, … - Tayyiba Haneef
Tayyiba Haneef (born march 23, 1979) is a volleyball player from the United States of America, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she ended up in 5th place with the American women's National Team. - Markus Rogan
Markus Antonius Rogan (born May 4,1982 in Vienna) is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Rogan's first big international success was a second place finish in the 200m Backstroke at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. In the Olympics in 2004, Rogan placed second in both Men's 100 m Backstroke and the Men's 200 m Backstroke, both times behind Aaron Peirsol of the United States. - Monique Henderson
Monique Henderson (born February 18, 1983 in San Diego, California) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. At age 17, she set a US junior and high school record of 50.74s. In 2000, she became the first high school athlete to make the US Olympic team since 1976. She was a member of the 4x400m squad but did not run. - Clyde Hart
Clyde Hart is the director of track and field at Baylor University. After 42 years, coach Hart retired as head coach for the Baylor track program on June 14, 2005. Hart is primarily known for being the only coach to ever have instructed Michael Johnson, the gold medal winner in the individual 400 meters at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. Johnson also holds the world record at 400 meters with a time of 43.18s. - Christine Arron
Christine Arron (born September 13, 1973 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France. She arrived in Metropolitan France in 1990 and first trained with Fernand Urtebise, who also coached 1997 world 400m hurdles champion Stephane Diagana. She had a hip injury which kept her out of the 2001 World Championships. She was named 1998 European Women's Athlete of the Year, … - Novlene Williams
Novlene Williams (born April 26, 1982 in Saint Ann, Jamaica) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the Jamaica. She was a bronze medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics she won (together with Shericka Williams, Ronetta Smith and Lorraine Fenton) a silver medal. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a bronze medal over 400 metres. - Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Dianne Benko (born November 29, 1976 in Elkhart, Indiana) is a freestyle swimmer from the United States, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 (Sydney, Australia). There she was a member of the US relay team that won the title in the 4x200m freestyle. Four years later in Athens, Greece she earned gold swimming prelims of the 4x200m free relay, and silver swimming the heats of the 4x100m free relay. - Alexander Povetkin
Alexander Povetkin (born in Kursk, Russia on September 2, 1979) is a Russian boxer. His height is 6' 2" (188 centimeters). Because of his amateur success, as well as his early pro accomplishments, he is seen as the leading prospect in boxing's Heavyweight division. - Marcio Araujo
Marcio Henrique Barroso Araujo is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Fabio Luiz Magalhães. Araujo represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, after having claimed the bronze medal alongside Benjamin Insfran at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. - Amanda Jones
Amanda Jones (born c. 1951) is a former beauty queen from St. Charles, Illinois who has held the Miss USA 1973 title. Jones was crowned Miss Illinois USA 1973 and later represented Illinois in the Miss USA 1973 title which she won. She was the third of four delegates from Illinois to win this title. Jones went on to the Miss Universe 1973 pageant in Athens, Greece where she placed 1st runner-up to Margarita Moran of the Philippines. - Stephen Parry
Stephen Parry (born March 2, 1977) is a former British middle-distance swimmer. He competed internationally in 100-metre and 200-metre butterfly distances. Parry was born in Liverpool, and as a boy attended Booker Avenue Junior School and the Liverpool Blue Coat School in Wavertree. He first joined a swimming club in Woolton, and then went on to swim for the Liverpool Penguins and City of Liverpool clubs. He started training seriously when he was twelve years of age, … - Takashi Yamamoto
Takashi Yamamoto (born July 23, 1978) is an Olympic medal-winning swimmer from Japan, who won the silver medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was also part of Japan's bronze medal-winning 4 x 100 m medley relay team. Yamamoto also competed in the 100 m butterfly event, and qualified for the semifinals, but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final. The 2004 Games were Yamamoto's third Olympic Games. - Jia Tian
Jia Tian (born February 9, 1981 in Tian Jin) is a female beach volleyball player from PR China, who won the bronze medal in the women's team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Fei Wang. She represented her native country at the 2000 and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. - Benjamin Insfran
Benjamin Insfran (born April 14, 1972 in Porto Murtinho, Mato Grosso do Sul) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Marcio Araujo. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. - Xing Huina
Xing Huina is a Chinese track and field athlete. Xing was born to family of farmers in Weifang, Shandong province. Standing 1.66 m tall and weighing 50 kg (110 lb), she began training at Weifang City Sport School, coached by Chi Yuzhai. She joined the Shandong Sport Technology Institute in 1999, coached by Yin Yanqin. She was selected into national team in 2002 after running 4:10.43 in 1500 m and 14:56.15 in 5000 m in 2001 Chinese National Games. - Katina Paxinou
Katina Paxinou (17 December, 1900 - 22 February, 1973) was an Academy Award-winning Greek film and theatre actress. Born Ekaterini Konstantopoulou, in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as an opera singer but changed career and joined the Greek Royal Theater in 1929. Paxinou distinguished herself on the stage. When World War II broke out, she was performing in London. Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated to the United States. - Fei Wang
Fei Wang is a female beach volleyball player from PR China, who won the bronze medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Jia Tian. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. After playing in only one event each in the 1998, 1999 and 2000 seasons, Fei Wang started competing full-time on the FIVB World Tour with Jia Tian in 2001. - Alexis Stamatis
Alexis Stamatis is a well known Greek author, and poet. He was born in Athens, Greece in 1960 and studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and took postgraduate degrees in Architecture and Cinematography in London. He has published five novels. His second novel, "Βar Flaubert" (Kedros 2000), a critically acclaimed best seller in Greece, has been published in France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Bangladesh and Serbia. - Demophon
In Greek mythology, Demophon referred to three different persons: *Demophon, a king of Athens. *Demophon, according to Pindar, son of Theseus and half brother of Acamas, fought in the Trojan War and was one of those to be in the Trojan Horse *Demophon, a mythological king of Eleusis - Nico Mastorakis
Nico Mastorakis (born 28 April 1941 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek filmmaker, director and radio producer. He was essential in the creation of ANTENNA TV and later Star TV in Greece. He is most famous, however, for his B movies wherein he employs blatant nudity and off-the-wall cinematography in order to captivate lowbrow audiences. Several of his films have since become certified cult classics. - Adam Saitiev
Adam Hamidovich Saitiev, also spelled Adam Hamidovich Saytiev is a Chechen wrestler who won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics for the Russian Federation. His elder brother Buvaisar Saitiev, also a wrestler, won gold in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and again in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Adam is a recipient of the Order of Honor (2001) and Order of Friendship (2004). - Ara Baliozian
Ara Baliozian is an Armenian author, translator, and critic, born in Athens, Greece on December 10, 1936. He received his education at the Mekhitarist College of Moorat-Raphael in Venice, Italy, where he also studied economics and political science at the University of Ca Foscari. He now lives in Ontario, Canada, where he devotes his full time to writing. He has been published in both Armenian and English. - Nikos Kourkoulos
Nikos Kourkoulos was a highly respected Greek theatrical and film performer, one of the most talented and recognizable actors in Greece of modern times. Kourkoulos is best known to Greek audiences for playing Angelos Kreouzis in "Oratotis miden", but has also appeared in other top-rated movies such as "To Homa vaftike kokkino", "Exodos kindynou", "O Astrapogiannos", "O Katiforos" among others. - Natalie Morales
Natalie Morales (born June 6 1972 in Taiwan) joined NBC News "The Today Show" in February 2006. Morales also co-anchors for the program and fills in regularly at the news desk. She has also filled in as anchor of weekend editions of NBC Nightly News. Previously, she was an anchor for MSNBC. Morales joined MSNBC as an anchor and correspondent in March 2002. - Wilfred Bungei
Wilfred Bungei (born July 24, 1980) is a Kenyan middle distance runner, who won the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Athletics in Moscow 2006 over 800 metres. He defeated Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and Olympic Champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy in the course of the race. Bungei was ranked No.1 in the world over 800m in 2002 and 2003. He has a personal best of 1:42.34 minutes (Rieti 2002), thus being currently the fifth fastest runner in the history of the event. - Mark Johnston
Mark Johnston (born August 31, 1979 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. His best Olympic result was the fifth place in the 4x200m Freestyle Relay in Athens, Greece (2004). - 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). - Najah Ali
Najah Ali (born circa 1984) is an Iraqi amateur boxer, who was the only Iraqi boxer to qualify for the 2004 Athens, Greece Olympics. Ali became interested in boxing as a young child, but most boxing gyms in Iraq at the time were generally in bad shape, making it hard for him and his fellow young boxers to train. Najah Ali grew during the Saddam Hussein era. He claims to have heard from other athletes about tortures committed against them by Hussein and his son Uday, …
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