- Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane, popularly nicknamed Zizou, is a French former football midfielder who played for four European clubs, including Juventus FC and Real Madrid. As a member and later captain of the French national team he participated in two World Cup finals - including winning the tournament in 1998 - and in three European Championships, winning that tournament in 2000. Having gained fame in Europe as a playmaker for Juventus, … - Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson is an English football manager. He is currently the head coach of the Finnish national team. Hodgson is probably best known for guiding the Swiss national team to the 1994 World Cup and Euro 1996; before that Switzerland had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1960s. He has also coached many notable club sides, including Malmö FF, Internazionale, Blackburn Rovers, Grasshoppers, F.C. Copenhagen and Udinese. - John Motson
John Walker Motson OBE (born 10 July 1945, Salford, Lancashire), known as Motty, is an English football commentator. The son of a Methodist minister, 'Motty' was educated at Culford School, where much to his disdain rugby, hockey and cricket were played and football not. He was in the same year as Gary Newbon, who still holds the record for the most appearances in the school's 1st XV rugby. - Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen (born November 16, 1983) is a German swimmer who specialises in freestyle, who is holder of the world record in women's 100 metre freestyle. She is a native of Schwedt, Germany. In 1999, Steffen won six titles at the European junior championships, and won a bronze medal as a member of Germany's 4x200m freestyle relay team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. By 2004, though, her individual times were not at world-leader standard. - 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), … - Phillips Idowu
Phillips Idowu (born on December 30, 1978 in Hackney, London) is an English triple jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, setting a new personal best of 17.68 during the contest but was beaten by world record holder Jonathan Edwards. Later that year he placed 5th in the European Championships. Four years later, he once again finished 5th place at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics. - Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt (born December 3, 1965) is a German figure skater, in Germany she was commonly affectionately called "Kati" in the past, but today her full name is used more often. She won two Olympic gold medals for East Germany, first in the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics and the second in 1988 at the Calgary Olympics. She won the World Championships in 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988, and six consecutive European Championships (1983-1988). - Stefan Holm
Stefan Christian Holm (born May 25, 1976) is a Swedish athlete competing in the high jump. He has won 1 Olympic gold medal, 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the World Championships, 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals in the European Championships. His personal record in high jump is 2.40 m (indoors 2005) and 2.36 m (outdoors 2004). - Gail Emms
Gail Elizabeth Emms (born July 23, 1977 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is an English badminton player who has achieved international success in doubles tournaments. - Kevin van der Perren
Kevin van der Perren (born August 6, 1982 in Ninove, Belgium) is a Belgian figure skater. He is the six time Belgian national champion. Van der Perren was the flag bearer for Belgian at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He is engaged to British skater Jenna McCorkell. - Steve Ovett
Stephen Michael James ("Steve") Ovett (born October 9, 1955), is a former middle distance runner from England. He was gold medalist in the 800 m at the 1980 Olympic Games, and set world records for 800 m, 1500 m and 1 mile. To this day, he holds the UK record for 2 miles, which he set in 1978. Born in Brighton and educated at Varndean Grammar School, Steve Ovett was an outstandingly talented teenage athlete. - Tatiana Totmianina
Tatiana Totmianina (born November 2 1981) in Perm, Russia, is a pairs figure skater. With partner Maxim Marinin, she is the 2006 Olympic Champion. - Mary King
Mary King, born 1961 June 8 in Sidmouth, Devon, is a world class equestrian sportswoman. Growing up in a family that was not involved in horses, Mary King worked in a butcher's shop, as a gardener, and as a cook to help fund her riding career. She was inspired by a visit to the Badminton Horse Trials to begin eventing, and later went to work for Sheila Willcox, a former European Champion. She went to her first Badminton in 1985, finishing in seventh place, … - Kiira Korpi
Kiira Linda Katriina Korpi (born 26 September, 1988 in Tampere, Finland) is a figure skater from Finland. She won the bronze medal 2007 European Championships in Warsaw. She competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics where she finished in 16th place. She competed in the World Junior Championships in 2005 and the European Championships in 2006. - Tatiana Navka
Tatiana Navka (born April 13, 1975 in Dnepropetrovsk) is a Russian ice dancer who has also competed for the Soviet Union and Belarus. She is the 2006 Olympic Champion with partner is Roman Kostomarov. - Peter Gade
"' (born December 14, 1976) born Peter Gade Christensen"' is a professional badminton player from Terndrup, Denmark. He currently resides near Charlottenlund in Copenhagen with his wife and accomplished handball player Camilla Høeg. Together they have a daughter, Nanna, born in 2004. - Ashia Hansen
Ashia Hansen (born 5 December 1971 in Evansville, Indiana, USA) is an athlete who is considered Britain's greatest-ever female triple jumper. Although born in the USA, Hansen was adopted at the age of 3 months by a Ghanaian father and a British mother and grew up in the UK after spending a few years in Ghana. Hansen is a member of the Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club in Birmingham, along with other successful British athletes such as Denise Lewis, Kelly Sotherton, … - Andrew Howe
Andrew Howe Besozzi is an Italian athlete who specializes in the long jump. He won this event as well as the 200 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships. Born to Renée Fedler, U.S. hurdler, and Andrew Howe Sr., a footballer of German descent, he moved in Rieti, Italy, in 1990 together with his mother, after she married to an Italian man, Ugo Besozzi. His international breakthrough came at the 2006 World Indoor Championships, where he finished third. - Rhona Martin
Rhona Martin (born October 12, 1966, Ayr, as Rhona Howie) is a Scottish curler who has skipped the Scotland women's team at both the European and World Championships, … - David Hemery
David Peter Hemery, CBE, (born July 18, 1944) is a former British athlete, winner of 400 metre hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, but his father's work took the family to the United States, where David Hemery attended school, graduating from Boston University in 1969 and won a NCAA championships in 400 m hurdles in 1968. Hemery's first International title came at the 1966 Commonwealth Games, … - Artur Dmitriev
Artur Dmitriev is a World and Olympic pairs figure skating champion. With his parnter Natalia Mishkutenok, he won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympics, and the silver at the 1994 Olympics. They represented the Unified Team, the sports team of the former Soviet Union. Mishkutenok and Dmitriev won the World Figure Skating Championships and the European Championships in 1991 and 1992. After Mishkutenok decided to retire, Dmitriev found a new parter, Oksana Kazakova. - Viktoria Volchkova
Viktoria Volchkova Russian: Виктория Волчкова is a Russian figure skater. Volchkova has never won a major championship, but she is the first lady to win four consecutive bronze medals at the European Championships. She is also a two-time World Junior bronze medalist, two time Goodwill Games bronze medalist and seven-time Russian Nationals medalist. She is an Olympian and has placed in the top 10 at five World Championships. - 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. - Jonathan Pearce
Jonathan Pearce (born 1959), is a British football commentator for the BBC resident in Hassocks, West Sussex. Known for his loud, passionate commentaries, he has worked for both Radio Five Live and Match of the Day, as well as participating in other lower key sports programmes. Pearce is also a long time Bristol City fan, where he worked as as sports editor for Radio West in Bristol. - Mark Todd
Mark James Todd, CBE, (born March 1, 1956) is a New Zealand horseman who was voted Rider of the 20th Century by the International Equestrian Federation, (Fédération Equestre Internationale). Born in rural Cambridge in the heart of the Waikato on the North Island, Todd was considered by his peers to be the consummate three-day-event horseman. From small pony club beginnings he went on to win two Olympic Games gold medals, … - Rosa Mota
Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, <small>GCIH, GCM</small>, pron., (born June 29, 1958) is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country's foremost athletes. She is also considered to have been one of the best marathon runners of the 20th century. Born in Porto's downtown neighbourhood of Foz Velha, she started participating in cross-country races while in high-school. - Alexei Mishin
Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin is a Russian former figure skater and a current coach. Among Mishin's pupils are Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov, World and Olympic Champions Alexei Yagudin, and Evgeni Plushenko and several champions of the Soviet Union and Russia. Mishin also advises many other skaters from other countries during his seminars in the summer. Among those who have benefited from his expertise are Romania's Gheorghe Chiper and Swiss skater Stéphane Lambiel. - Ian Black
Ian Black (born 1941) was a Scottish swimmer. He was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1958 at the age of only seventeen. He achieved this phenomenal feat by winning gold medals in three separate events at the European Championships in Budapest, competing as an adult. He also won a gold medal for Scotland at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games that year, in Cardiff. He holds certain age-related British records to this day. - Paul Bosvelt
Paul Bosvelt (born March 26, 1970 in Doetinchem) is a former Dutch footballer. Bosvelt worked his way through the Dutch leagues with Go Ahead Eagles and FC Twente before making his big move to Feyenoord in 1997. He went on to develop a reputation as a fearsome midfield general at de Kuip, making 167 top-flight appearances and leading the side to the Eredivisie title in 1999 and in the 2002, guided his team to UEFA Cup victory as a captain. - Sergei Ponomarenko
Sergei Vladilenovich Ponomarenko (born October 6, 1960) is a Russian figure skater in ice dancing. Ponomarenko trained at Spartak in Moscow. His skating partner and wife is Marina Klimova. His former partner was Tatiana Durasova. In addition to winning three World championships and four European Championships, Klimova and Ponomarenko are the only figure skaters in any discipline to have won Olympic medals in three different colors. - Marina Klimova
Marina Vladimirovna Klimova (born June 28, 1966 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian figure skater in ice dancing. Her skating partner and husband is Sergei Ponomarenko. She trained at Spartak in Moscow. In addition to winning three World Championships and four European Championships, Klimova and Ponomarenko are the only figure skaters in any discipline to have won Olympic medals in three different colors. They won the bronze medal in 1984 Sarajevo, … - Jackie Lockhart
Jacqueline "Jackie" Lockhart (born March 22, 1965, Stonehaven, Kincardine and Mearns, as Jacqueline Steele) is a Scottish curler who has competed prolifically in major international competitions for Scotland, and for the Great Britain team that competes at the Olympic Winter Games. Having made her international debut at the 1983 European Championships, she went on to claim a silver medal in her first crack at the World Championships in 1985, … - Alain Calmat
Alain Calmat (also Calmanovich) (born August 31, 1940, in Paris) is a French Jewish former competitve figure skater, surgeon, and politician. He is the 1964 Olympic silver medalist, the 1965 World Champion, the 1962-1964 European Champion, and the 1958 & 1962-1965 French national champion. - Eoin Morgan
Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan (born 10 September 1986 in Dublin) is an Irish cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman, part-time right-arm medium bowler and an occasional wicket-keeper. He plays in English county cricket for Middlesex. Morgan was a regular member of Ireland's youth teams and represented them at Under-15 and Under-17 level. He was selected in the Irish Under-19 squad for the 2003-04 Under-19 World Cup, and was Ireland's top run-scorer in the competition. - Lucinda Green
Lucinda Green (born November 7, 1953, Andover, Hampshire, England) is a champion British equestrian and journalist who was born as Lucinda Jane Prior-Palmer. - Tony Jarrett
Anthony ("Tony") Alexander Jarrett (born August 13, 1968 in Enfield, London) was a sprint and hurdling athlete from England, who came 4th in the 110m hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Four years earlier he ended up in sixth place in the same event. Jarrett's career was parallelled by the achievements of fellow Briton Colin Jackson, who beat him into second place on numerous occasions at major competitions such as the World Championships, … - Peter Elliott
Peter Elliott (born October 9, 1962 in Rotherham, UK) is a former world class middle distance runner who won medals at the Commonwealth Games, the European Championships and World Championships and the Olympic Games between 1986 and 1990. Elliott was brought up in Rawmarsh, a small town near Rotherham, South Yorkshire. He attended Rawmarsh Comprehensive School and later worked as a joiner at British Steel. - Simon Vroemen
Simon Frans Vroemen (born May 11 1969 in Delft, Zuid-Holland) is a former Dutch runner, specialising in the steeplechase. Vroemen has a degree in molecular sciences from the Wageningen University. He wrote his dissertation on the stress physiology of grasshoppers. He has since worked as an engineer for Shell and currently resides at Gieten. Originally a 1500 metre runner, he changed his focus in 1994 to the steeplechase, in which he has been internationally successful. - Yvonne Murray
Yvonne Murray MBE (born October 4, 1964 in Musselburgh), married name Yvonne Murray-Mooney, is a Scottish former middle distance track and road running athlete. She was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. She won the bronze medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games for the 3,000m that were held in Edinburgh. She then went on to win the bronze medal at the European Chamionships for the same event in the same year. - Yuliya Chizhenko
Yuliya Chizhenko (born 30 August 1979) is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. At the 2005 World Championships she originally finished in silver medal position behind Tatyana Tomashova, but was disqualified for obstructing Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain. The next year Chizhenko won the World Indoor Championships before finishing second at the European championships, again behind Tomashova.
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