- John Whitaker
John Whitaker MBE (born August 5, 1955) is a British equestrian and former Olympian. Horses he has partnered with include Ryan's Son, Milton, and Gammon. He has three children, Joanne, Louise and Robert. Robert Whitaker has successfully showjumped at the highest levels. John's niece Ellen Whitaker is also a prominent British show jumper. John's wife Clare helps run the yard, arranging show entries and administration. - Jeff Galloway
Jeff Galloway, MA (b. July 12, 1945, Raleigh, North Carolina) is a former American Olympian widely known as the author of "Galloway's Book on Running", which is the best-selling running book in the United States. A lifetime runner, Galloway was an All-American collegiate athlete and a member of the 1972 US Olympic Team in the 10,000 meters. He remains a competitive athlete, continuing through a successful masters running career. - Amy Acuff
Amy Lyn Acuff is an athlete from the United States. An aggressive high jump competitor, Acuff competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field and is a three-time Olympian. Her personal best is 2.01 m, which she achieved in Zürich on 2003-08-15. Acuff lives in Austin, Texas, and is an alumna of UCLA. Acuff is distantly related to country musician Roy Acuff (her grandfather’s second cousin). - Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton 's wholesome exuberance won her many commercial endorsements, including an appearance on the front of a Wheaties cereal box. She retired from gymnastics in 1985 after winning her third American Cup title and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997. Mary Lou Retton resides in Houston, Texas, with her husband and four daughters. She is an occasional commentator for televised gymnastics. - Cindy Klassen
Cindy Klassen (born August 12, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian skater and Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian. Klassen is a descendant of Mennonite immigrants to Manitoba and is a graduate of Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute in Winnipeg. She started her sports career as an ice hockey player; in her youth she played for the Canadian National Youth Team. When she wasn't selected for the 1998 Winter Olympics, … - Beckie Scott
Beckie Scott (born August 1, 1974 in Vegreville, Alberta) is a retired Canadian cross-country skiing athlete and as of February 23, 2006, an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu. Scott was born in Vegreville, Alberta, but grew up in Vermilion, Alberta. She began cross-country skiing at the age of five. She entered her first competition at age seven, … - Ian Millar
Ian Millar (born January 6, 1947) is a Canadian show jumping world champion. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ian Millar is the most successful show jumper in Canadian history. He is an eight-time winner of the Canadian Show Jumping Championship and has captured six Spruce Meadows Derbys. With his horse, Big Ben (1976-1999), Millar won more than 40 Grand Prix titles worldwide and the Show Jumping World Cup two years in a row. At the Pan American Games in August 1987, … - Danny Green
Daniel ("Danny") Thomas Green (born March 9, 1973) is an Australian professional Light Heavyweight Boxer and former Olympian, who is nicknamed "The Green Machine". - Nomar Garciaparra
Anthony Nomar Garciaparra (born July 23, 1973, in Whittier, California) is a Mexican-American baseball player who currently plays third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He previously played first base for the Dodgers, shortstop and third base for the Chicago Cubs, after several years as an All-Star shortstop for the Boston Red Sox. Garciaparra was part of the so-called "Holy Trinity" of shortstops that debuted in the mid '90s, … - Dhyan Chand
Major Dhyan Chand Singh was a former Indian hockey player and is often regarded as the greatest player ever to play the game. He was part of the Gold winning Indian team in three Olympic Games (1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles, 1936 Berlin). He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour, in 1956. He got the title "Chand" or (moon) from his first coach, Pankaj Gupta, who had predicted that he would one day shine like a "chand" or moon. - Ken Chertow
Ken Chertow is an American Olympian wrestler. He is an entrepreneur and a wrestling coach. He serves as a mentor for thousands of young wrestlers whom he coaches in his clinics, camps and school every year. His training combines wrestling techniques with life attitude training. - Bruce Baumgartner
Bruce Robert Baumgartner (born November 2, 1960, in Haledon, New Jersey) is a retired American amateur wrestler and current Director of Athletics for the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Baumgartner is a four-time Olympian and owns four Olympic Medals: two gold, one silver and one bronze. He holds a Bachelors degree in education from Indiana State University. - James Stewart
James Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the twin brother of Geoffrey Stewart and older brother of Stephen Stewart. They were the first trio of brothers to represent Australia in rowing at the same Olympics and were all educated at Newington College, and coached by olympian and fellow Old Newingtonian Michael Morgan. - Steven Nyman
Steven Nyman (born February 12, 1982 in Provo, Utah), sometimes known as Steve, is an American alpine skier and 2006 Olympian. Formerly a slalom skier, he is now a speed specialist, competing mainly in downhill, super G, and alpine combined. Nyman raced at Sundance as a junior until making a move to Park City in 1999. He was a discretionary pick for the 2002 World Junior Championships in Tarvisio, Italy, … - Murray Rose
Iain Murray Rose was born on January 6, 1939 in Nairn, Scotland, but he moved to Australia with his family at an early age after World War II. He took up swimming as a boy and was an Olympic Games champion at age 17. Rose became an Olympian for the first time at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He won the 400 meter and 1500 meter freestyle races and was a member of the winning team in the 4x200 meter relay. - Michael Carter
Michael D'Andrea Carter, is a former U.S. Olympian track & field athlete and American pro football player. Carter is best known in track & field for setting the national high school record of 81 feet 3 ½ inches in the 12 pound shot put, adding more than nine feet to the record previous to Carter. He set this mark at the 1979 Golden West Invitational track & field meet while competing for Jefferson High School of Dallas, TX. - Eamonn Coghlan
Eamon Coghlan (born November 21, 1952 in Dublin) is an Irish 4-time Olympian and retired runner. Coghlan was born in Drimnagh, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He was very small so he had disadvantages against larger runners throughout his career. Coghlan's first running club was the now defunct Celtic Athletic Club. On its break up he moved to the Metropolitan Harriers club where he won the Leinster colleges 5000m title in 1970. - Bobby Douglas
Bobby Douglas is a famed wrestling coach and Olympian. Douglas was one of the few wrestlers to have defeated Dan Gable during Gable's ilustrious career. He is in the Hall of Fame. In his career, he has coached many Olympians who placed in the top three in the world. He coached the Iowa State wrestling team for many years before stepping down in favor of Cael Sanderson in 2006. - Dennis Hall
Dennis Hall is one of the United States most decorated athletes. Hall is a 10 time Greco-Roman Wrestling US National Champion, World Champion, and 3 time USA Olympian. This includes a Silver Medal at the 1996 Atlanta. In addition, he is an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Hall burst on the Wisconsin wrestling scene as a freshman attending Hartford Union High School and defeated a two-time senior state champion in the state finals. - Jay Hakkinen
Jay Hakkinen (born July 19 1977) is a professional biathlete, a three time U.S. Olympian, and is from Kasilof, Alaska. - Kim Gallagher
Kim Ann Gallagher (born June 11, 1964 in Philadelphia - died November 18, 2002 in Oreland) was an American track & field Olympian, who participated in two Summer Olympics: 1984 and 1988. Gallagher died in 2002 after her battle with stomach cancer at the age of 38, but not before she left her mark as one of the United States most outstanding Track & Field athletes. - Ian Ferguson
Ian Gordon Ferguson, MBE, (born July 20, 1952 in Taumarunui) is New Zealand's most successful Olympian, competing in K1, K2, and K4 kayak events. He first competed at the Montreal, Canada Olympic Games in 1976 and again at Moscow, Russia Olympic Games in 1980. In the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 1984 he earned three gold medals. He then earned another gold medal and a silver medal at the Olympic Games held in Seoul, Korea in 1988. - Evangelos Zappas
Evangelis Zappas aka Evangelos Zappas was a Greek businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the modern international Olympic Games. He was born in northern Epirus (today part of Albania) in 1800 and moved to Bucharest in 1831. In 1856 he wrote to King Otto of Greece offering 400 shares in the steamship company so that the dividends could be used to establish the Olympic Games, the Olympiad, and to provide prizes to the Olympian victors. - Susan Auch
Susan Auch (born March 1, 1966 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian speed-skater and five-time Olympian who trained initially out of Winnipeg, and later in Calgary, Alberta. Auch competed in several Winter Olympics games, winning the bronze in the 3000 m. relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the silver in the 500 m. events at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and the 1998 games at Nagano, Japan. - Phil Edwards
Dr. Philip Aaron Edwards, MD (September 13, 1907 - September 6, 1971), track and field athlete the "Man of Bronze", was Canada's most-decorated Olympian, the first Black Canadian man to win a trophy at what are now known as the Commonwealth Games, and the first-ever winner of the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's top athlete. He went on to serve as a captain in the Canadian army and as a highly-regarded physician and expert of tropical diseases. __TOC_ - Gael Mackie
Gael Briane Mackie (born December 16, 1988 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian gymnast and Olympic athlete. Gael came to prominence on the Canadian gymnastics scene by winning the senior national championship at age 14. She currently resides in Coquitlam, British Columbia. She appeared in the Athens 2004: Games of the XXVIII Olympiad. She competed in the Women's Team and the Individual All Around. - John Tate
John Tate (born January 29, 1955 in Marion, Arkansas - died April 9, 1998 in Knoxville, Tennessee) was an American prizefighter and Olympian boxer, who briefly held the World Boxing Association heavyweight title from 1979 to 1980. "Big John" Tate captured a bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and captured the WBA title on October 20 1979 by defeating Gerrie Coetzee by decision, succeeding Muhammad Ali, who had relinquished the title that summer. - Forbes Carlile
Forbes Carlile MBE (born June 3 1921 in Armadale, Victoria) was Australia's first post-World War II Olympics swimming coach and later Australia's first competitor in the modern pentathlon at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He remains the only person to have coached and later competed at the Olympic Games. Carlile is best known as a pioneer in swimming coaching. Together with his wife, Ursula, and their assistant, Tom Green, … - Eduardo Buenavista
Eduardo Buenavista (born 13 October 1978 in General Santos City) is a Filipino long-distance runner and two-time Olympian. He holds the Philippine record for multiple long distance events. His best marathon time is 2:18:44 hours. He also holds the Philippine 5000 metres record of 13 minutes, 58 seconds, and performed the 10,000 metres in 29:02.36 minutes. "Vertek", as monickered by his friends and the media, finished 67th in the 2004 Athens Olympic marathon. - Sohn Kee-Chung
Sohn Kee-Chung (Japanese: ソン・ギジョン (Son Kitei); August 29, 1912 - November 15, 2002) became the first medal-winning Korean Olympian when he won the gold medal in the Marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a member of the Japanese delegation, under the name of "Son Kitei", which is the Japanese pronunciation of the hanja making up his name. - Susanne Ljungskog
Susanne Ljungskog (born March 16, 1976 in Halmstad) is a Swedish cyclist. A three time Olympian (1996, 2000 and 2004), she won the World Road Race Championship two years in succession (2002 and 2003). The same years, she was UCI Points champion. She has also won two World Cup races in her career. Ljungskog received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 2002. - Art Longsjo
Art Longsjo was an Olympian speed skater and cyclist. He was born in 1932 and died in a car accident in 1958 at age 26. In 1956, he was the first person ever to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year. Longsjo won the 5,000 m speed skating event at the United States national championship to make the Olympic team at the 1956 Winter Olympics; however, due to a knee injury injury before the games, he placed outside the medal stand. - Paulina Ligocka
Paulina Ligocka (born 25 May 1984) is a Polish snowboarder. In March of 2006 she finished second in the cumulative final standing of the World Cup in half-pipe. She was an Olympian at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, where she was the bearer of the Polish flag at the opening ceremonies. She competed in half-pipe, finishing 17th. She lives in the Polish city of Cieszyn, which is on the border with the Czech Republic. - Bob Hodge
Bob Hodge, also known as Hodgie-San by fellow running enthusiasts, is an American distance runner originally from Lowell, MA who achieved some acclaim in the 1970s and 1980s. He placed 3rd in the 1979 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:12:30. He ran a personal best in the 1980 Nike OTC Marathon in Eugene, OR with a time of 2:10:59. He won several road races of note including the Mt. Washington Road Race (1976–1980, 1985 and 1987), … - Kevin Grant
Kevin Grant is a former Canadian international soccer player and Olympian. A Burlington, Ontario native, Grant played 15 'A' internationals between 1972 and 1975. A centre back, he also played in 8 Olympic team amateur internationals including in qualification for the 1972 Olympics as well as 2 games in the the 1976 Olympics. Grant played his club soccer with East Hamilton Cougars and later East Hamilton Legion and Hamilton Croatia. He was with Croatia when on Olympic duty. - Nam Sung-Yong
Nam Sung-Yong was the bronze winner of the Marathon of the 1936 Summer Olympics, completing the run in 2 hours, 31 minutes, and 42 seconds. He is also the first Korean bronze Olympian. Nam received higher education in Japan. Like the gold medalist Sohn Kee-Chung, the Japanese government forced Nam Sung-Yong to use the Japanese pronunciation of his name, Nan Shōryū. - Andrew Trim
Andrew Trim (born December, 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales) is the Queensland Coalition candidate for the state seat of Cleveland. He is a former Olympian, competitng in the sports of canoeing. He won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics, both in kayaking. Trim currently serves as Principal of Johnson Real Estate at Birkdale. - Christopher Ondaatje
Sir Philip Christopher Ondaatje, OC, CBE, (born February 22, 1933) is a Sri Lankan businessman, philanthropist, adventurer, writer and Olympian. He presently lives in Canada. Born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to a Burgher family of Portuguese-Dutch-Sinhalese-Tamil origins, Christopher went to Blundell's School in the United Kingdom. After his alcoholic father lost the family fortune, Christopher had to leave school a year from graduation. - Lynn Cameron
Lynn Cameron (born 31 July, 1979 in Perth) is a Scottish curler, and member of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team taking part in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. 2006 is her 1st appearance as an Olympian. She was part of the Scotland curling team which won the World Junior Championships in 1997 in which Scotland beat Sweden 11-3 in the final. She is employed as a physical education teacher. - Dipankar Bhattacharjee
Dipankar Bhattacharjee born and raised in Guwahati, Assam (India) has been a star sportsman from North-East India. He is known to be the first and the only (till date) olympian from Assam (A major North-Eastern Indian state). He has participated in many International tournaments representing India including Barcelona and Atlanta Olympics. He has been Indian National Badminton Champion three times and twice runner-up.
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