He competed for South Africa in the 1908 Summer Olympics held in London , Great Britain in the Marathon where he won the Silver medal in the race famous for the dramatic finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor Dorando Pietri .

Dutch skater Sjoukje Dijkstra took the silver medal ; she would finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor amateur career with an Olympic gold medal in 1964 .

In a controversial finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor she delivered another gold medal winning performance on the uneven bars at the 1972 Munich Olympics , defeating Olga Korbut on her favourite apparatus .

In the 2007 season , the Patriots became the second team in NFL history to have a perfect regular season record , after the 1972 Miami Dolphins , and the first to finish sports.sports_team_season_record .

Bob Seagren , who won the pole vault gold at Mexico City in 1968 , would finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor silver at Munich .

At the 2000 Sydney Olympic he failed to advance from his heat in the 1500m , and Hicham El Guerrouj was eventually upset in a sprint finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor Kenyan Noah Ngeny .

She represented the United States at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , Australia , where she won a bronze medal for her third-place finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor 1:14.4 ) in the women 's 100-meter butterfly , finishing behind fellow Americans Shelley Mann and Nancy Ramey .

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London , Zimmerman received a silver medal for her second-place finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor the women 's 100-meter backstroke behind gold medal-winner Karen Harup of Denmark .

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , Hemery defended his title , but could only finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor , behind John Akii-Bua from Uganda and Ralph Mann from the United States .

Lange would go on to take third at the 1993 World championships , take 1994 off to concentrate on his medical studies , finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor of the running in the 1995 World Championships , and come back to claim a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics behind Switzerland 's Xeno Müller and Canada 's Derek Porter .

However , the strike-shortened 1982 NFL season saw Bennett 's team finish sports.sports_team_season_record , reaching the postseason in the expanded playoff system , but losing the first round game to the Minnesota Vikings .

The Raiders have ended their season on a 2-game winning streak and finish sports.sports_team_season_record season with a 5–11 record ; the best since they also went 5–11 in 2004 and the Raiders knocked the Buccaneers out of Playoff contention .

The 1995 Arizona Cardinals began the season seeking to improve their 8–8 finish sports.sports_team_season_record 1994 .

Williams played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1986 and the Los Angeles Raiders in 1987 , and would finish sports.sports_team_season_record NFL career with 10 catches for 195 yards .

His eighth-place finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor the best by a British fencer since the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , when Fiona McIntosh was eighth in the women 's foil , and the best by a British man since the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , when Bill Hoskyns won the silver medal in the individual épée .

His best-known finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor a Silver Medal in the Individual Normal Hill at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , New York , ( Tied with Manfred Deckert of East Germany ) .

Nadezhda Chizhova was very disappointed with her bronze medal finish olympics.olympic_medal_honor 1968 Olympics .